International Postgraduate Taught Merit Scholarship 2025

Overview

Each scholarship is a competitive award worth £10,000 towards the original tuition fee for a postgraduate taught programme starting in September 2025. The scholarships are available to all new international students who meet the eligibility criteria.

You must hold an offer to study at the University of Sheffield.

Key dates

• Applications are now open.

• The deadline for scholarship applications is 1pm (UK time) on Monday 12 May 2025.

• Scholarship results will be announced: by Wednesday 11 June 2025.

• If you are offered the scholarship, we’ll ask that you confirm acceptance of your scholarship and your offer by a fixed date.

Eligibility criteria

Your programme must commence at the University of Sheffield in autumn 2025.

• Distance learning courses are ineligible for a merit scholarship.

• You must receive an offer for a course studied in full at the University of Sheffield. Masters programmes split between the University of Sheffield and a partner institution are not eligible to apply for a scholarship.

• All Crossways courses and Erasmus Mundus courses are ineligible for a merit scholarship.

• For tuition fee purposes you must be self-funded and required to pay the overseas tuition fee.

• You must not be a sponsored student.

• For scholarship purposes all MArch programmes are considered as postgraduate taught programmes and are not eligible for undergraduate scholarships.

• Anyone studying a Masters/integrated PhD programme is eligible for a merit scholarship in the Masters element of the programme only.

• These scholarships are not applicable to any postgraduate courses where the higher clinical fee is applicable. This includes, but is not exclusive to, the following courses:

  • DClinDent Orthodontics

  • MClinDent in Orthodontics

  • DClinDent Endodontics

  • MClinDent in Paediatric Dentistry

  • DClinDent Periodontics

  • MMedSci in Diagnostic Oral Pathology

  • DClinDent Prosthodontics

• The University of Sheffield reserves the right to review and change scholarship provision.