Scholarships at University of Southampton

A scholarship of up to £3,000 is available to international students studying an eligible postgraduate master’s in biological sciences.

Eligibility

To be eligible for this scholarship you must:

• be an international student

• have a conditional or unconditional offer to study an eligible course

• achieve a 1st or an equivalent qualification in your undergraduate studies

A scholarship of £3,000 is available to international students from East Asia studying a postgraduate master’s course, other than the MBA, at Southampton Business School.

To be eligible for this scholarship you must: 

• be an international student from mainland China, Hong Kong, Japan, Macau, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea and Taiwan 

• have an IELTS score of IELTS 7.0 overall with minimum 6.5 in all components, except if you're studying Business Analytics and Finance, Business Analytics and Management Science, Human Resource Management (MSc), Logistics and Supply Chain Analytics or Strategic Operations and Supply Chain Management, where the requirement is 7.5 overall with minimum 7.0 in all components

• have a conditional or unconditional offer

We determine your residency as where you have been living for a 3 year period or longer before the start of the course. This does not include where you are living for study purposes, if it is somewhere different to where you normally live. 

These scholarships of £12,000 are available to students studying for the Master of Business Administration (MBA). 

One scholarship is available for a student from each of the following regions:

• South East Asia 

• The Middle East and North Africa 

• Central and Latin America

• North America

• Europe

Eligibility  

We will only consider applicants who have an offer to study at University of Southampton. 

You must:

• have been ordinarily resident in either South East Asia, the Middle East, North Africa, Central America, Latin America, North America or Europe during the 3 years before the start of the course (ignoring time spent while studying outside your usual country of residence) 

• show promise as a future leader by demonstrating business excellence 

• have a conditional or unconditional offer to study on the Master of Business Administration (MBA) 

• be paying your own fees  

• need to pay the overseas tuition fee 

• not be getting any external sponsorship 

Deadline : 24 May 2024

These scholarships of up to £10,000 are available to international students studying for the Master of Business Administration (MBA). They are awarded to candidates who can best demonstrate business excellence in an interview. 

Scholarships are available for 3 different amounts:

• £10,000

• £7,000

• £4,000

Eligibility  

We will only consider applicants who have an offer to study at Southampton University. 

You must: 

• need to pay the overseas tuition fee 

• be paying your fees yourself 

• not have any external sponsorship 

• have a conditional or unconditional offer to study on the Master of Business Administration (MBA) 

Deadline

You must submit your application to study for the MBA by 31 July 2024 in order to be considered for this scholarship

A scholarship of £3,000 is available to international students studying an eligible postgraduate master’s business.

To be eligible for this scholarship you must:

• be an international student.

• have a conditional or unconditional offer to study an eligible course.

• achieve either a 2:1 in undergraduate studies or an equivalent qualification.

• be a resident of an overseas fee eligible country except China, Hong Kong or Macau. Please view our merit scholarships available for these countries.

Eligible courses

• MSc Accounting and Finance 8520 (1 year)

• MSc Accounting and Management 8521 (1 year)

• MSc Business Analytics and Finance 8522 (1 year)

• MSc Business Analytics and Management Science 8516 (1 year)

• MSc Business Strategy and Innovation Management 8517 (1 year)

• MSc Digital Business 8518 (1 year)

• MSc Digital Marketing 8519 (1 year)

• MSc Digital Strategy and Information Systems 8529 (1 year)

• MSc Finance 8530 (1 year)

• MSc Human Resource Management 5100 (1 year)

• MSc International Banking and Financial Studies 8531 (1 year)

• MSc International Entrepreneurship and Management 7260 (1 year)

• MSc International Financial Markets 8533 (1 year)

• MSc International Management 5226 (1 year)

• MSc Logistics and Supply Chain Analytics (8535)

• MSc Marketing Analytics 8536 (1 year)

• MSc Marketing Management 8537 (1 year)

• MSc Project Management 8538 (1 year)

• MSc Risk and Finance 8539 (1 year)

• MSc Risk Management 8782 (1 year)

• MSc Strategic Operations and Supply Chain Management 8916 (1 year)

A scholarship of £3,000 is available to international students studying an eligible postgraduate master’s in economic, social and political sciences.

To be eligible for this scholarship you must:

• be an international student

• have a conditional or unconditional offer to study an eligible course

• achieve a 1st or an equivalent qualification in your undergraduate studies

Eligible courses

• MSc Applied Statistics 8213 (1 year)

• MSc Criminology 5253 (1 year)

• MSc Data Analytics for Government 8081 (2 to 5 year)

• MSc Demography 8481 (1 year)

• MSc Economics 8471 (1 year)

• MSc Finance and Econometrics 6185 (1 year)

• MSc Finance and Economics 8472 (1 year)

• MSc Gerontology (Distance Learning) 8779 (1 year)

• MSc Gerontology 8777 (1 year)

• MSc Gerontology: Research 8781 (1 year)

• MSc Global Ageing Policy (Distance Learning) 5418 (1 year)

• MSc Global Health 8483 (1 year)

• MSc International Security and Risk 7987 (1 year)

• Master of Public Administration 8022 (1 year)

• MSc Social Research Methods 8038 (1 year)

• MSc Social Research Methods with Applied Statistics 8215 (1 year)

• MSc Sociology and Social Policy 8314 (1 year)

A scholarship of £3,000 is available to international students studying an eligibile postgraduate master’s in education.

To be eligible for this scholarship you must:

• be an international student

• have a conditional or unconditional offer to study an eligible course

• achieve a 1st or an equivalent qualification in your undergraduate studies

Eligible courses

• MSc Education Management and Leadership 4860 (1 year)

• MSc Education 4860 (1 year)

• MSc Education Practice and Innovation 4860

A scholarship of £5,000 is available to international students studying an eligible postgraduate master’s in engineering. 

To be eligible for this scholarship you must:

• be an international student

• have a conditional or unconditional offer to study an eligible course

• achieve a 1st or an equivalent qualification in your undergraduate studies

Eligible courses

• MSc Acoustical and Vibration Engineering 8798 (1 year)

• MSc Maritime Engineering Science: Advanced Computational Engineering 3811 (1 year)

• MSc Maritime Engineering Science: Marine Engineering and Autonomy 3811

• MSc Maritime Engineering Science: Naval Architecture 3811 (1 year)

• MSc Maritime Engineering Science: Ocean Energy and Offshore Engineering 3811 (1 year)

• MSc Maritime Engineering Science: Yacht and High-performance Craft 3811 (1 year)

A scholarship of £5,000 is available to international students studying for a MSc in Applied Geographical Information Systems and Remote Sensing.

To be eligible for this scholarship you must: 

• be an international student

• have a conditional or unconditional offer to study the course

• achieve a 1st, 2:1 or an equivalent qualification in your undergraduate studies

A scholarship of £3,000 is available to international students studying an eligible postgraduate master’s in geography and environmental science.

To be eligible for this scholarship you must:

• be an international student

• have a conditional or unconditional offer to study an eligible course

• achieve a 1st or an equivalent qualification in your undergraduate studies

A scholarship of £3,000 is available to international students studying an eligible postgraduate master’s in health sciences.

To be eligible for this scholarship you must:

• be an international student

• have a conditional or unconditional offer to study an eligible subject

• achieve a 1st or an equivalent qualification in your undergraduate studies

Eligible courses

• MSc Amputation & Prosthetic Rehabilitation 8210 (1 year)

• MSc Leadership and Management in Health and Social Care 8332 (1 year)

• MSc Professional Practice in Health Sciences 8335 (1 year)

A scholarship of £3,000 is available to international students studying an eligible postgraduate master’s in law. 

To be eligible for this scholarship you must: 

• be an international student  

• have a conditional or unconditional offer to study an eligible course  

• achieve a 1st or an equivalent qualification in your undergraduate studies

A scholarship of £3,000 is available to international students studying an eligible postgraduate master’s in mathematics.

To be eligible for this scholarship you must:

• be an international student

• have a conditional or unconditional offer to study an eligible course

• achieve a 1st or an equivalent qualification in your undergraduate studies

A scholarship of £3,000 is available to international students studying an eligible postgraduate master’s in medicine. 

To be eligible for this scholarship you must: 

• be an international student  

• have a conditional or unconditional offer to study an eligible course

• achieve a 1st or an equivalent qualification in your undergraduate studies 

Eligible courses

• MSc Biomedical Sciences by Research (1 year)

• MSc Cancer Biology and Immunology (1 year)

• MSc Genomics 8587 (1 year) 

• MSc Public Health Global Health 6162 (1 year)

• MSc Public Health Intelligence 6161 (1 year)

• MSc Public Health Management 6163 (1 year)

• MSc Public Health 5242 (1 year)

The following merit scholarships are available to international students and offer up to £3,000 off the first year of tuition fees:

• Biological Sciences Undergraduate International Scholarship

• Business School Undergraduate International Scholarship

• Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Undergraduate International Scholarship

• Economic, Social and Political Sciences Undergraduate International Scholarship

• Education School Undergraduate International Scholarship

• Geography and Environmental Science Undergraduate International Scholarship

• Law School Undergraduate International Scholarship

• School of Mathematical Sciences Undergraduate International Scholarship

• Ocean and Earth Science Undergraduate International Scholarship

• Physics and Astronomy Undergraduate International Scholarship

• Psychology Undergraduate International Scholarship

Eligibility 

To be eligible for a scholarship you must:  

• need to pay the overseas tuition fee

• have a conditional or unconditional offer to study an eligible course 

• be starting in Year 1 of an eligible course

Other eligibiity criteria depend on which school offers your course.

Business, Law or Physics and Astronomy 

For scholarships offered by Southampton Business School, the School of Physics and Astronomy, and Southampton Law School, you must both exceed your offer and achieve either: 

• an A level A* grade 

• an International Baccalaureate grade 7 at Higher level  

• equivalent qualifications 

Chemistry, Economic, Social and Political Science, Education or Maths

For scholarships offered by the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, the School of Economic, Social and Political Science, the Southampton Education School and the School of Mathematical Sciences, you must both exceed your offer and achieve either:

• an A level A or A* grade

• an International Baccalaureate grade 7 or Higher level

• equivalent qualifications 

All other schools

For all other schools, you must achieve either: 

• an A level A or A* grade 

• an International Baccalaureate grade 6 or 7 at Higher level  

• equivalent qualifications  

This applies to courses run by Biological Science, Geography and Environmental Science, Ocean and Earth Science, and Psychology.

Students who are not eligible

These scholarships are not available to students studying:

• on PGCert, PGDip, Foundation or PGR courses

• on Distance Learning courses

• with a partner institution

• at our campus in Malaysia

• on continuing professional development (CPD) courses

• only pre-sessional English - pre-sessional English students with an offer to study at undergraduate or postgraduate level can still apply

Chemistry, Economic, Social and Political Science, Education or Maths

We award eligible students discounts of £1,000 for each A or A* grade above the standard offer for courses run by: 

• Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

• Economic, Social and Political Sciences

• Southampton Education School 

• School of Mathematical Sciences

For example, if you need A, B and B in your A levels and you get A*, A and B, you will get £2,000 towards your first year tuition fees. 

Business, Law or Physics and Astronomy

We award eligible students discounts of £1,000 for each A* grade above the standard offer for courses run by:

• Southampton Business School

• Southampton Law School

• Physics and Astronomy 

For example, if you need A, A and B in your A levels and you get A*, A and A, you will get £1,000 towards your first year tuition fees.

All other schools

We award eligible students discounts of £1,000 for each A or A* grade for courses run by: 

• Biological Science

• Geography and Environmental Science

• Ocean and Earth Science

• Psychology

For example, if you need A, A and B in your A levels and you get A, A and A, you will get £3,000 towards your first year tuition fees. 

The most you can get is £3,000. The scholarships apply only to the first year of your tuition fees.

A scholarship of £3,000 is available to international students studying MSc Oceanography and MSc Ocean and Earth Science by Research.

To be eligible for this scholarship you must: 

• be an international student  

• have a conditional or unconditional offer for one of the previously mentioned courses

• achieve a 1st or an equivalent qualification in your undergraduate studies  

A scholarship of £3,000 is available to international students studying an eligible postgraduate master’s in psychology.

To be eligible for this scholarship you must:

• be an international student

• have a conditional or unconditional offer to study an eligible course

• achieve a 1st or an equivalent qualification in your undergraduate studies

The Sanctuary Scholarships are available for new Undergraduate (UG) and new Postgraduate Taught (PGT) students, starting September 2024. Our Sanctuary Scholarship supports 2 students per year who are seeking sanctuary in the UK, 1 Undergraduate and 1 Postgraduate. 

The University of Southampton will:  

• cover 100% of tuition fee costs for each year of study (3 years for UG and 1 year for PGT) 

• provide a bursary for each year of study to help with additional study costs (this is flexible given individual circumstances)

• provide a welcome pack

• support with university accommodation (if you have specific requirements, please contact the Sanctuary Coordinator

Applicants for the Sanctuary Scholarship will need to:

• hold an offer from the University of Southampton to study on either an Undergraduate or Postgraduate Taught course.

They will also need:

• to be an asylum seeker - a person who has made a claim within the UK for refugee status, or,

• to be a person who has been granted some form of temporary status - such as limited leave to remain etc.

Sanctuary Scholarships for September 2024-25 are now open. The deadline is 7th June 2024.

The Southampton University Corporate Civil Engineering Scheme (SUCCESS) offers:

• an annual bursary of £1,650 

• a summer work placement that lets you apply what you’ve learned and get valuable experience 

• mentoring from a senior engineer in your sponsoring company

Eligibility

You must be a first, second or third-year undergraduate Civil Engineering student and agree to:  

• work at least 8 to 10 weeks for your sponsoring employer during summer vacation

• write a progress report for your sponsor each term

• achieve at least a 60 percent average in your degree each year