Scholarships at University of Gloucestershire

The Global Scholarship is an automatic tuition fee waiver of £1,500 deducted from your first year’s tuition fee (or the full course fees for PGT) at the point of offer – there is no need to apply for this award. New students paying International tuition fees will be eligible to receive the award provided you are self-funded, full-time and studying for a minimum of 2 semesters on one of the following programmes: 

• Undergraduate degree (including courses with an integrated foundation year).

• Postgraduate taught degree. 

• PhD. 

• Masters by Research.

• Master of Research (MRes).

Professional Doctorate programmes (eg. DBA, EdD) are not eligible for the Global Scholarship.

Undergraduate and postgraduate taught students must be studying on campus to be eligible, postgraduate research students can be distance learning or on campus.

In partnership with the British Council and the GREAT Britain Campaign, University of Gloucestershire is offering two scholarships to students in Bangladesh and Pakistan applying for postgraduate courses in MA Education and MSc Psychology.

The GREAT Scholarships 2024 programme, launched by the British Council together with 72 UK universities, supports postgraduate students to access world-class UK higher education opportunities. 

The scholarship programme offers financial support of a minimum of £10,000 to students pursuing one-year postgraduate study in the UK. Students can apply for courses in a range of subjects, at the 72 institutions across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. 

To be considered, applicants must be holding an offer from University of Gloucestershire for September 2024 entry. Applicants must have met conditions of the offer and have firmly accepted the offer.

The online application form is available now and will close on 30 April 2024.

This merit scholarship is a tuition fee waiver designed to reward academic excellence or, a strong creative portfolio, or relevant work experience (where required). The value of the scholarship will be £5,000.

Terms & conditions

• The scholarship is only available for the named programme in the offer letter and beginning in September 2024 or January 2025. 

• Scholarships are non-transferable.

• Students must be studying on campus on a full-time postgraduate taught degree, for a minimum of 2 semesters. 

• Applicants must be international fee payers and must be self-funding (see note 1) for at least 100% of tuition fee. 

• The Postgraduate Merit Scholarship is valid for first year of tuition fees. 

• Excellent work experience and/or portfolio will be considered in addition to grades. 

• Eligible applicants must have applied and meet set entry criteria. An interview may be required. 

• Applicants must accept scholarship and pay the full advised advanced payment within 28 days otherwise it will be withdrawn and offered to another candidate. 

• Applicants must not be in receipt of any other scholarship from the University of Gloucestershire and should not have previously been awarded an Undergraduate Merit Scholarship from the University. 

• Scholarships will not be awarded to deferred applications.

• On commencing studies at the University, scholarship holders will be contacted by the University’s Communications, Marketing and Student Recruitment Team (CMSR), and be required to periodically participate in marketing activity that includes (but is not limited to) video and photography content creation, blog commentary, supporting recruitment events.

If a student wishes to transfer to an undergraduate programme at University of Gloucestershire from an overseas progression partner, the University will offer a Progression Partner Scholarship worth £5,000. This is automatically deducted off the tuition fees.

The £5,000 scholarship is split across the number of years of study at the university, as outlined in the table below.

Terms & conditions

• This scholarship only applies to self-funded, undergraduate students, studying for a minimum of two semesters (one academic year) on campus, paying international tuition fees.

• A valid Progression Agreement should be in place between the University and the partner for students to qualify for the award. Check our list of progression partners and eligible transfer options. 

• On commencing at the University, scholarship holders will be contacted by the University’s Communications, Marketing and Student Recruitment Team (CMSR), and be required to periodically participate in marketing activity that includes (but is not limited to) video and photography content creation, blog commentary, supporting recruitment events.

The Sports Global Excellence Scholarship is aimed at high performing student athletes who wish to combine high performance sport alongside undergraduate or postgraduate taught study at University of Gloucestershire. This is applied as a tuition fee waiver designed to reward sporting excellence. The Scholarships are open only to international fee-paying students.

Applicants must be able to demonstrate they are performing at the required level in the performance sport.  The value of the scholarship will be £5,000 for postgraduate students and £7,500 for undergraduate students applied as a tuition fee waiver.

What you’ll get in addition to the fee waiver:

Our Global Sports Scholars and those athletes in a first team in one of our performance sports can also expect to receive:

Terms & conditions

• The scholarship application must be completed by the published deadline (30 April 2024 for a September 2024 start date).

• The scholarship is only available for the named programme in the offer letter and beginning in September 2024 or January 2025 and for the following high-performance sports: women’s soccer, NFL, men’s basketball, netball, rugby union.

• Scholarships are non-transferable.

• Students must be studying on campus on a full-time undergraduate degree (minimum 3 years) or postgraduate taught degree (minimum 2 semesters).

• Applicants must be international fee payers and must be self-funding (see note 1) for at least 100% of tuition fee.

• To be considered for undergraduate level, US applicants must have achieved a minimum academic criteria of HSD 3.6 GPA (out of 4.0) plus high marks in SAT/SAT subject tests/AP classes or exams/ACT or honours/college classes in line with US entry requirements and for postgraduate level, achieve a bachelor degree, 3.4 GPA (4.0) or a minimum score of 80%. An interview may be required. The allocation of the scholarship is competitive, and so not all applications received will be successful. Scholarships will be awarded by the Sports Scholarship Group comprising of coaching staff. Applicants must meet the set and required entry criteria as well as performance criteria.

• Applicants must accept scholarship and pay the full advised advanced payment within 28 days of the scholarship award letter otherwise it may be withdrawn and offered to another candidate.

• Applicants must not be in receipt of any other scholarship from the University of Gloucestershire and should not have previously been awarded an Undergraduate Merit Scholarship from the University.

• On commencing at the University, scholarship holders will be contacted by the University’s Communications, Marketing and Student Recruitment Team (CMSR), and be required to periodically participate in marketing activity that includes (but is not limited to) video and photography content creation, blog commentary, supporting recruitment events.

This merit scholarship is a tuition fee waiver designed to reward academic excellence or, a strong creative portfolio, or relevant work experience (where required).  The value of the scholarship will be £7,500 paid across the 3 years of study as a tuition fee waiver as follows:

Terms & conditions

• The scholarship is only available for the named programme in offer letter and beginning in September 2024 or January 2025.

• Scholarships are non-transferable.

• Students must be studying on campus on a full-time undergraduate degree, for a minimum of 3 years.

• Applicants must be international fee payers and must be self-funding (see note 1) for at least 100% of tuition fee.

• The Undergraduate Merit Scholarship is valid for the duration of the 3-year degree and the award is applied each year, amount as outlined above.

• Excellent work experience and/or portfolio will be considered in addition to grades.

• Eligible applicants must have applied via the online application form and meet set entry criteria. An interview may be required.

• Applicants must accept scholarship and pay the full advised advanced payment within 28 days otherwise it will be withdrawn and offered to another candidate.

• Applicants must not be in receipt of any other scholarship from University of Gloucestershire.

• Scholarships will not be awarded to deferred applications.

• On commencing studies at the University, scholarship holders will be contacted by the University’s Communications, Marketing and Student Recruitment Team (CMSR), and be required to periodically participate in marketing activity that includes (but is not limited to) video and photography content creation, blog commentary, supporting recruitment events.