International Postgraduate Taught Merit Scholarship

This is a competitive process and not all applications will be successful. A panel of senior members of staff will select the strongest applications and will be looking for the following:

Applicant has given examples of achievements which represent excellence and initiative in educational, voluntary, or professional areas.
Applicant has shown how these achievements relate to the course they have applied for at the University of Sheffield and connected that to their future ambitions.
Applicant has a strong academic profile.

Your programme must commence at the University of Sheffield in autumn 2025.

Distance learning courses are ineligible for a merit scholarship.
You must receive an offer for a course studied in full at the University of Sheffield. Masters programmes split between the University of Sheffield and a partner institution are not eligible to apply for a scholarship.
All Crossways courses and Erasmus Mundus courses are ineligible for a merit scholarship.
For tuition fee purposes you must be self-funded and required to pay the overseas tuition fee.
You must not be a sponsored student*.
For scholarship purposes all MArch programmes are considered as postgraduate taught programmes and are not eligible for undergraduate scholarships.
Anyone studying a Masters/integrated PhD programme is eligible for a merit scholarship in the Masters element of the programme only.
These scholarships are not applicable to any postgraduate courses where the higher clinical fee is applicable. This includes, but is not exclusive to, the following courses:

DClinDent Orthodontics
MClinDent in Orthodontics
DClinDent Endodontics
MClinDent in Paediatric Dentistry
DClinDent Periodontics
MMedSci in Diagnostic Oral Pathology
DClinDent Prosthodontics

The University of Sheffield reserves the right to review and change scholarship provision.