They are delighted to offer 75 International Postgraduate Taught Merit Scholarships in 2025. Each scholarship is a competitive award worth £10,000 towards the original tuition fee for a postgraduate taught programme starting in September 2025. The scholarships are available to all new international students who meet the eligibility criteria.
About University of Sheffield
The University of Sheffield developed from three local institutions: the Sheffield School of Medicine, Firth College and the Sheffield Technical School. The School of Medicine, founded 1828, was by far the oldest. Its early history was very insecure and it was saved from collapse by the opening of Firth College, which took over the teaching of all basic science subjects to medical students.
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International Postgraduate Taught Merit Scholarship
Aim and Benefits of International Postgraduate Taught Merit Scholarship
Each scholarship is a competitive award worth £10,000 towards the original tuition fee for a postgraduate taught programme starting in September 2025.
Requirements for International Postgraduate Taught Merit Scholarship Qualification
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.
Interview date, Process and Venue for International Postgraduate Taught Merit Scholarship
Selection criteria
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.
Key dates
- Applications are now open. You will need to use your applicant login details (once you have received an offer) to access the application form.
- The deadline for scholarship applications is 1pm (UK time) on Monday 12 May 2025.
- Scholarship results will be announced: by Wednesday 11 June 2025.
- If you are offered the scholarship, we’ll ask that you confirm acceptance of your scholarship and your offer by a fixed date.
Application Deadline
May 12, 2025How to Apply
Interested and qualified? Go to
University of Sheffield on finance.ssid.shef.ac.uk to apply
To access the application form you will need to hold an offer for an eligible postgraduate course starting at the University in September 2025. It may take up to 24 hours to be able to access the form after you have received your offer.
If you haven't applied for a course yet you can find out how to do this on our How to apply - Postgraduate Taught web page.
Applications are now open. The deadline to apply is 1pm (UK time) on Monday 12 May 2025.
Apply for an International Postgraduate Taught Merit Scholarship 2025
A single application form enables applicants to be automatically considered for multiple scholarships if they meet the eligibility criteria; however, only one award can be received.
For more details, visit University of Sheffield scholarship webpage
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