School of Biological Sciences South and South-East Asia Academic Excellence Scholarship

The School of Biological Sciences will offer scholarships for academically-excellent applicants of postgraduate taught MSc programmes from South Asia and South-East Asia for the 2025-2026 academic session.

We are offering a limited number of scholarships, for the sum of £10,000 each to eligible applicants. These awards will be tenable for one academic year and will be: Automatically deducted from your tuition fee with any remaining funds being awarded towards living costs. 

All scholarship award holders are expected to be energetic members of postgraduate community, and will engage with opportunities to present their work to the wider student and staff body during the period covered by their award. University offer postgraduates a range of training and development opportunities appropriate to their programme of study.

The scholarships will be awarded on the basis of academic merit to applicants who have received an offer to a postgraduate taught master’s degree programme offered by the School of Biological Sciences commencing in September 2025. 

Applicants must have, or expect to obtain, the equivalent of a UK first class honours degree at undergraduate level and be domiciled in and a national of South Asia or South-East Asia. 

The scholarship will be awarded broadly on the basis of academic merit with candidates requiring a first-class honours degree from a UK university or overseas equivalent.

Indian Applicants

• The minimum score you should have achieved is 60% or more /GPA of 8 on a 10 point scale in your Bachelor's study.
• If you are studying at an Institute of Eminence or an Institute of National Importance you should achieve 55% or more / GPA of 7.0 on a 10 point scale. 

The School of Biological Sciences will offer scholarships for academically-excellent applicants of postgraduate taught MSc programmes from South Asia and South-East Asia for the 2025-2026 academic session.

The scholarship deadline has now passed.

When you receive your UUN and EASE password, you can apply for scholarships. Do not wait to receive an offer before applying for a scholarship but the eligibility criteria for the relevant scholarship may ask that you have received an offer of admission by the closing date of the scholarship.

Once you have completed the registration process, you will then be logged into MyEd and will see the 'My Application' or 'Studies' tab containing the EUCLID channel, then click the 'Manage my application(s)' button to open the Applicant Hub.

It can take up to five working days for all system checks to be completed to allow access to the scholarship application portal. If you have applied for admission to your programme very recently, your access may not yet be live.

Upon completion of your Personal statement , clicking on the 'Submit Application' button will display an 'Application Submitted Successfully' message.

Reference

Reference requirements vary between degree programmes: some programmes do not ask for any references, while others require either one or two references. Find the specific reference requirements for your chosen programme in degree finder.

Personal Statement

• Your Personal Statement should include information relevant to your scholarship application and be between 200 and 500 words there is a limit of 3500 characterss. Some scholarships require specific evidence to be presented within the personal statement, please refer to the particular prouded for scholarships betre completing your statement at Scholarships and Student Funding Services.

Documents Required

• Online Application
• Academic Transcripts
• Degree Certificate 
• Personal Statement
• One or Two References
• English Language Proficiency