Master's Scholarships

Eligibility

UK students are eligible to apply for the Scholarship. You normally need to have achieved at least a 2.1 or equivalent in your first degree to be eligible. You need to submit an application to study at Cardiff University and be made an offer to study, before your fee status can be confirmed.

Your fee status is determined in accordance with the Fees Regulations. Please consult the UKCISA website regarding fee status in Wales.

Eligible programmes

Only complete full-time and part-time postgraduate taught courses that lead to a Master's degree are included within the scholarship scheme:

• Full-time course leading to a taught Master's degree
• Part-time course leading to a taught Master's degree
• MRes Biosciences
• MRes Stem Cell Neurobiology

If you are studying your course part-time, you will receive 50% of the scholarship in the first year and 50% of the scholarship in the second year.

If you are studying a full-time course which lasts longer than one year you will not receive funding for additional years from this Scholarship scheme or its successor.

Courses not included

The following courses are not included in the scheme so aren't eligible for a Master's Scholarship:

• Distance learning programmes
• Architectural Studies (MArch)
• Taught programmes leading to a graduate diploma (GDip), postgraduate certificate (PgCert) or postgraduate diploma (PgDip)
• Research degrees that lead to a Master in Philosophy (MPhil).

If you already possess a Postgraduate Certificate or Diploma and are now progressing onto the Master's stage of the degree, you would also not be eligible.

Other than the MRes in Biosciences or Stem Cell Neurobiology, postgraduate research programmes that lead to the award of an MPhil, are not eligible for scholarship.