The Keele Graduate Scholarship

You must not be taking a course that is partially or fully funded by the Teaching Agency, the NHS or any other organisation/employer. Should you be awarded funding during your study, the award will be cancelled. The Student Finance Postgraduate Loan does not affect your eligibility for this award.
Students who take the MA in Social Work, and are not in receipt of external funding, or receive partial tuition fee funding from the NHSBSA, may be eligible to receive the Keele Graduate Scholarship on the proportion of the fee they pay as an individual. Social Work students in receipt of a fully funded place are not eligible to receive the Keele Graduate Scholarship.
You must not be in receipt of another Keele bursary, scholarship or grant that exceeds the total you may receive from the Keele Postgraduate Bursary Scheme. In the event that you are offered more than one of these by Keele, you will be paid the larger sum only.
If you are studying on a modular basis, the scholarship will be deducted from your modules pro rata only after you have successfully completed four modules. The discount will then only be applied to subsequent modules.

EXCEPTIONS

Qualifying recipients of the scholarship will receive the award in the form of a tuition fee discount. No cash alternative is available, and the award cannot be used in place of any required deposit.

Students taking a PGCE course or the Full Time MBA course are not eligible to receive the Keele Graduate Scholarship.

The scholarship is not available for students studying wholly online courses delivered by Keele.

An award of £3,000 for UK students taking a taught postgraduate course at Keele University who attained a first class honours in their first degree.

ELIGIBILITY

You must be liable to pay UK tuition fees for postgraduate study at Keele University.
You must have graduated with a first-class honours undergraduate degree (Bachelors) from a UK university. If you have graduated from a university outside the UK, we will require a copy of your degree certificate and may ask that you provide evidence that your classification is equivalent to a first-class honours degree obtained in the UK.
You must have been resident in the UK for at least three years prior to embarking on postgraduate study. You must not have been resident purely for the purpose of receiving education.
For the purposes of assessing your eligibility for this award, we will only consider the classification obtained in your first degree. Performance in postgraduate and graduate study or second undergraduate degrees will not be considered. Similarly, we will not consider performance in academic study that is considered to be at a lower level than a degree, or equivalent experience.
You must be registered on, and attending, a taught postgraduate course that equates to at least one year's full-time study at postgraduate level and leads to a named award of at least Postgraduate Diploma level at Keele University from September onwards. This means, for example, that students who attain, or are registered on, a Postgraduate Certificate course, will not receive an award. Students registered for a PhD or an MPhil are not eligible to receive an award.
Only one fee discount of up to £3,000 can be made for study towards one postgraduate award. For example, students registered for an MA will receive one scholarship for study leading to the MA, even in the event of there being a gap between study leading to a PG Diploma.