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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 º£½ÇÉçÇø of Sheffield.

Eligibility criteria

Your programme must commence at the º£½ÇÉçÇø 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 º£½ÇÉçÇø of Sheffield. Masters programmes split between the º£½ÇÉçÇø 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
• º£½ÇÉçÇø reserves the right to review and change scholarship provision.

How to apply

Applications are now open. The deadline to apply is 1pm (UK time) on Monday 12 May 2025.

A single application form enables applicants to be automatically considered for multiple scholarships if they meet the eligibility criteria; however, only one award can be received.

Selection criteria

This is a competitive process and not all applications will be successful. A panel of senior members of staff will select the strongest applications and will be looking for the following:

• Applicant has given examples of achievements which represent excellence and initiative in educational, voluntary, or professional areas.
• Applicant has shown how these achievements relate to the course they have applied for at the º£½ÇÉçÇø of Sheffield and connected that to their future ambitions.
• Applicant has a strong academic profile.

Award criteria

• You must commence your programme at the º£½ÇÉçÇø of Sheffield in autumn 2025.
• The International Postgraduate Taught Merit Scholarship 2025 cannot be awarded in conjunction with any of the following scholarships:
  • International Postgraduate Taught Scholarship 2025
  • NCUK Postgraduate Taught Scholarship 2025
  • Professor David Locker Scholarship in Social Science, Oral Health and Dentistry 2025
  • MBA Scholarship 2025
  • GREAT Scholarship 2025 for Egypt, Malaysia and India
• In the event that you are selected for any of the above scholarships the most valuable award will take precedence.
• The scholarship can be awarded in conjunction with any available scholarships from the Department or Faculty you will be studying in, subject to not becoming a sponsored student*. Please use the funding calculator to find out if any scholarships are available from your Department/Faculty.
• The scholarship cannot be awarded in conjunction with any funding from an external sponsor**, excluding a loan, which has to be paid back in full.
• If you are receiving a loan (which has to be paid back in full) from an organisation to which we offer a discount, you are not able to combine this scholarship with the discount - the most valuable award will take precedence.
• If you are studying a 2-year masters programme the scholarship will be available in the second year of your studies subject to successful completion of year 1, and all remaining eligibility and award criteria.
• The scholarship is not applicable to any years in industry or study abroad years that are compulsory or optional elements of your course.
• If an offer of a place of study requires a deposit to be paid by a set date you must pay this deposit to continue to be eligible for the scholarship and to hold your offer for a place of study.
• If you are selected for a merit scholarship and you fail to meet the conditions of your offer you will no longer be eligible to receive the award.
• If you change your Masters programme during your studies your merit scholarship may be forfeited.
• The merit scholarship can be provided for a maximum of 2 full-time academic years. This does not include years in industry or year(s) abroad. For part-time students on programmes that last longer than one year the scholarship will be split pro rata for a maximum of 4 years.
• Part-time students will receive the full value of the scholarship split pro rata over the duration of the course.
• The scholarship will be applied as a tuition fee discount only, there is no cash alternative.
• The decision of the scholarship panel is final. No scholarship applications or decision appeals will be considered.
• All decisions made by the º£½ÇÉçÇø are made in good faith. If a scholarship is awarded on the basis of predicted grades and you do not achieve the predicted grades or if the information provided is false, the º£½ÇÉçÇø reserves the right to remove the scholarship.
• If you are selected for the scholarship, you will be required to pay a tuition fee deposit by a fixed date.
• If you are offered the scholarship, we’ll ask that you confirm acceptance of your scholarship by a fixed date. You will also need to accept your course offer by 4pm (UK time) on Tuesday 8 July 2025.

* Sponsored student is defined as an individual who is in receipt of a total sum of funds that matches or exceeds the original tuition fee required by the º£½ÇÉçÇø.

** Government or governmental organisation – international, national or regional; research council; charity; private enterprise; or any similar organisation.