2025-2026 LSHTM Next Generation Scholars for Masters Students

Enabling the most talented students from all backgrounds to study at LSHTM is a key strategic priority. We are excited to offer a range of widening participation scholarships to tackle barriers to further education for students from all backgrounds.

As outlined in the Strategy to Promote Access and Widening Participation, LSHTM wants to be a place where students from diverse backgrounds feel they belong, can thrive, and are valued for their unique contribution.

As part of this work, LSHTM is offering 10 scholarships, which are funded in 2025-26 by a combination of LSHTM funds – including the LSHTM Scholarship Fund - and a contribution from the University of London. These initiatives are designed to enable excellent students from groups who have been historically underrepresented in Higher Education at the postgraduate level to study, feel a sense of belonging and succeed at LSHTM.

• Table of Content
• About London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM)
• LSHTM Next Generation Scholars
• Aim and Benefits of LSHTM Next Generation Scholars
• LSHTM Next Generation Scholars Courses
• Requirements for LSHTM Next Generation Scholars Qualification
• Interview date, Process and Venue for LSHTM Next Generation Scholars
• Application Deadline
• How to Apply

About London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM)

Founded in 1899 at the London Docks, LSHTM is now based in Bloomsbury, where it has two main sites at Keppel Street and Tavistock Place, and additional sites in The Gambia and Uganda. Today, our staff, students and alumni work in government, academia, international agencies and health services across the world. Learn more about the history of LSHTM.

LSHTM Next Generation Scholars

Aim and Benefits of LSHTM Next Generation Scholars

Each scholarship award comprises:

• 2025-26 tuition fees (at the Home fee rate), including any mandatory field trip fees, and
• A tax-free student stipend (living allowance) at the UKRI studentship rate (which is GBP 21,237.00 in 2024-25)

LSHTM Next Generation Scholars Courses

• Climate Change & Planetary Health
• Clinical Trials by Distance Learning
• Control of Infectious Diseases
• Demography & Health
• Epidemiology
• Epidemiology by Distance Learning
• Global Health Policy by Distance Learning
• Global Mental Health
• Health Data Science
• Health Policy, Planning & Financing
• Health in Humanitarian Crises by Distance Learning
• Immunology of Infectious Diseases
• Infectious Diseases by Distance Learning
• Medical Microbiology
• Medical Parasitology & Entomology
• Medical Statistics
• Nutrition for Global Public Health
• One Health: Ecosystems, Humans and Animals
• Public Health
• Public Health by Distance Learning
• Public Health for Eye Care
• Public Health for Global Practice
• Reproductive & Sexual Health Research
• Sexual & Reproductive Health Policy and Programming (online)
• Tropical Medicine & International Health
• Veterinary Epidemiology

Requirements for LSHTM Next Generation Scholars Qualification

To be eligible for these scholarships, applicants must meet all of the following criteria:

• Meet the criteria for Home fee status;
• Meet LSHTM’s minimum English language requirements (as required by LSHTM’s Admissions system);
• Hold an offer of admission for 2025-26 for one of LSHTM’s 16 London-based (intensive) MSc programmes of study.

The selection panel awarding this scholarship will consider responses to our contextualized admissions questions, giving preference to those applicants who are in the categories below:

• Black ethnicity
• Care experienced
• Care giver
• Disabled
• Estranged from family
• First generation in family to enter higher education
• Refugee

Interview date, Process and Venue for LSHTM Next Generation Scholars

Application notes

• All applicants being considered for this funding are agreeing to the general terms and conditions for LSHTM scholarships.
• For any queries about the application process, scholarship requirements or application deadline, please contact the LSHTM Scholarships team: [email protected].
• Please note that all applications will only be reviewed and processed after the deadline. All applications that are submitted before the deadline will be considered equally, regardless of submission date.
• Decisions are expected to be reached, and the successful applicants notified by 23 May 2025.

Application Deadline

How to Apply

You should submit an application to study for 2025-26 for an eligible MSc programme of study, by following the instructions under the ‘To apply’ tab on the relevant MSc programme page. We would encourage you to submit your application as early as possible to allow time for it to be processed prior to the deadline below.

Applicants should ensure that all necessary supplementary admissions documents (including references) are submitted via the admissions portal. In order to be considered for this scholarship applicants must hold an offer of admission by 11 April.

After this date, eligible offer holders will be invited to submit a supplementary question form  that allows the students to explore both the barriers they have faced during their education and the ways in which they have overcome them.

For more details, visit LSHTM Scholarship webpage