New Scholarships at the University of Birmingham for International Postgraduate Students

Birmingham Commonwealth Games Scholarship

:aims at recruiting students from Commonwealth countries, worth £3000.

In order to be eligible, candidates must meet the following requirements. You must:

• Have applied for, and receive an offer of admission for, a taught Masters degree at the University of Birmingham UK campus, to study in the 2021/22 academic year.
• Be classed as ‘domiciled’ in one of the Commonwealth countries. Please see the list below.
• Be classed by the University as an overseas fee payer for tuition fee purposes.
• Start your studies at the University in September/ October 2021 on a course delivered on-campus.

Please read the details of the scholarship at this link.

Global Masters Scholarship

: targets students from a select group of countries, worth £10,000

All taught Masters programmes are eligible for this scholarship, with the exception of programmes in the Birmingham Business School, for which there are separate scholarships on offer.

In order to be eligible, candidates must meet the following requirements. Candidates must:

• Have received, and accepted, an offer of admission for a taught Masters degree at the University of Birmingham UK Campus to study in the 2021/22 academic year.
• Be classed as ‘domiciled’ in one of the eligible countries.
• Be classed by the University as an overseas fee payer for tuition fee purposes.
• Start their studies at the University in September/ October 2021 on a course delivered on-campus.
• Be academically exceptional and able to provide evidence for this in the scholarship application statement. Candidates must also have, or be expecting to achieve, a first-class overall grade (at least 70% in the UK system) in a bachelors degree or equivalent.

As an example, the minimum equivalent grade requirement in the US, India, Nigeria and China are as follows:

• 5 out of 4.0 and above in the US GPA system.
• 70% in the Indian grading system
• 5 (out of 4.0) or 4.5 (out of 5.0) or 6.2 (out of 7.0) in the Nigerian grading system
• 85% grade awarded by a top tier Chinese University, 90% grade awarded by a mid-tier Chinese University

Students in receipt of a full scholarship or sponsorship covering full tuition fees from an alternative internal or external source are also not eligible for this scholarship. Those with other partial awards may be able to conjoin this scholarship with other scholarships.

Please read the details of the scholarship at this link.

Here you see the full list of scholarships at the university, see https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/…/scholarships/index.aspx