Our postgraduate scholarships are designed to reward excellence in all its forms, giving you additional support while you're studying with us. We offer a wide range of scholarships to our International postgraduate students to help make studying at a postgraduate level in the UK more accessible.
The following scholarships are available if you are starting your course in September 2025 or January 2026:
| Scholarship title and link to full details | Short eligibility criteria (see scholarship for full details) | Value | Application process |
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| Academic Excellence Scholarship | A minimum of an upper second/first-class Honours degree. Please see equivalency table for country-specific grading |
£4,500 |
Automatically assessed |
| Academic Achievement Scholarship | A minimum of a high second-class Honours degree. Please see equivalency table for country-specific grading |
£2,000 |
Automatically assessed |
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Able to demonstrate that you are a talented musician or vocalist and that you have been involved in ensemble activity |
Worth £600 |
Apply online by 31 August 2025 for September 2025 entry and 30 November 2025 for January 2026 entry |
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High performing sportspeople with the desire to continue to develop |
£500 to £5,000 |
Apply online by 31 August 2025 for September 2025 entry and 30 November 2025 for January 2026 entry |
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| Chevening Scholarship scheme | Full-time applicants for a postgraduate taught course who are a citizen of a Chevening-eligible country at the time of application and who intends to return there at the end of study | A tuition fee waiver plus other allowances | Apply online - the deadlines are country specific but the application window is usuallybetween August and November each year for September entry in the following year |
| Full-time applicants for MSc Adult Nursing, MSc Marketing Management, MA 3D Computer Animation and MSc Digital Health who are a citizen of Turkey, Thailand, Taiwan, Indonesia, Hong Kong or China and who intends to return there at the end of study | A tuition fee waiver plus other allowances | Apply online - the deadlines are country specific but the application window is usually between August and November each year for September entry in the following year | |
| Applicants for full-time taught postgraduate courses who are resident in Indonesia, Thailand or Mexico. You must have achieved a minimum of a UK upper second-class Honours (2:1) degree (or overseas equivalent) that is relevant to your postgraduate study | £10,000 tuition fee reduction | Apply online by 30 April 2025 | |
| To be eligible for one of these scholarships, you must meet certain criteria including having applied to study MSc Disaster Management at BU |
The Shared Scholarship covers:
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Apply online by 12 December 2024 |