About this Scholarship
The Chancellor's Academic Merit Scholarship is based on predicted grades.
For the postgraduate programmes, the Chancellor's Academic Merit Scholarship will be based on your bachelor's (or equivalent) grades. The scholarship is applied to the full tuition fee of the programme regardless of whether it is full-time or part-time. Unless you apply for the MSc Mental Health programme where it will be applicable to Year 1 only.
This is stand-alone and cannot be combined.
Eligibility Criteria
A student must receive an offer for entry to a full or part-time UG or PG programme to be eligible for a scholarship.
You must click on ‘accept’ on your offer to indicate you are interested in joining and pay the deposit by the date mentioned in your offer letter. Your scholarship award will then be issued within 10 working days via email.
A student must be able to pay the outstanding tuition fees not covered by the scholarship, to receive the scholarship.
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Curriculum |
Student grade |
Scholarship reward |
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Classification Grading System |
1st Class |
30% scholarship |
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2:1 Upper second class |
20% scholarship |
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2:2 Lower second class |
10% scholarship |
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GPA Grading System (out of 4) |
3.7 GPA |
30% scholarship |
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3 GPA |
20% scholarship |
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2.8 GPA |
10% scholarship |
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Percentage Grading System (University understand that this system varies from country to country and therefore university consider each percentage assessment on a case-by-case basis) |
Above 80% |
30% scholarship |
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From 75% - 80% |
20% scholarship |
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From 70% - 74% |
10% scholarship |
Who Can Apply
Scholarships apply to all years of study including the student exchange year in the UK, unless your final and/or master's year of study is in the UK; BSc Biomedical Science, MSci Biomedical Science, MEng Mechanical Engineering, MEng Computer Science and Software Engineering. Additionally, the scholarship does not apply to the final year (second year) of the MSc Mental Health (Clinical) programme.
How to Apply
Scholarships are automatically reviewed and awarded after a prospective applicant receives and accepts a Conditional Offer from the University of Birmingham Dubai and satisfies their deposit payment condition of 5,000 AED.
A separate scholarship application is not required. All offers are reviewed for scholarship eligibility, subject to the completion of the deposit payment.