International Undergraduate Scholarships

Eligibility

• You must commence your studies of an undergraduate degree at the University of Sheffield in September 2020. All undergraduate degree courses are included except for Medicine (A100/A101) and Dentistry (A200).
• You must choose the University of Sheffield as your firm or insurance choice before 16:00 (UK time) on 15 June 2020.
• The scholarship will be awarded automatically – no scholarship application is required in the first or any subsequent years.
• Subject to meeting the eligibility and award criteria the scholarship will be guaranteed in the first year of study.
• The scholarship is applicable to each subsequent academic year of study, subject to achieving 60% or above and achieving a minimum of 120 credits in the previous academic year. The scholarship is not applicable to any compulsory or optional years in industry, work placements or year abroad.
• You must enter a degree programme at the University of Sheffield in year 1. If you are entering in year 2, you would be eligible for this scholarship, providing you are not receiving a scholarship/award as part of a collaborative programme with your home institution.
• The scholarship cannot be awarded in conjunction with any of the following scholarships. In the event that you are selected for any of the below scholarships the most valuable award will take precedence:
  • International Undergraduate Merit Scholarship 2020
  • International Baccalaureate Undergraduate Merit Scholarship 2020
  • GEMS International Merit Scholarship 2020
  • NCUK Undergraduate Scholarship 2020
  • NCUK Undergraduate Merit Scholarship 2020
• The scholarship can be awarded in-conjunction with any available scholarships from the Department or Faculty you will be studying in, subject to not becoming a sponsored student*. Please use the funding calculator to find out if any scholarships are available from your Department/Faculty.
• The scholarship cannot be awarded in-conjunction with any funding (full or partial) from an external sponsor**, excluding a loan, which has to be paid back in full.
• The scholarship will take the form of a tuition fee reduction only.
• You must be self-funded and classified as overseas for tuition fee purposes.
• You must not be a sponsored student*.
• The scholarships are for full-time and part-time students only. Students studying online or via distance learning are not eligible for a scholarship.
• Part-time students will receive the equivalent value of the scholarship split pro-rata over the duration of a single full-time academic year.
• This scholarship is not available to students on the BA Business Management Joint Programme with SBC (course code MGTU36).
• For scholarship purposes all MArch programmes are considered as postgraduate taught programmes and are not eligible for this or any undergraduate scholarships.
• This scholarship cannot be deferred to a future year of entry. If you decide to defer entry to another year you forfeit this award.

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We're a member of the Russell Group of leading UK research universities. Our outstanding performance for excellent teaching and research, as part of a genuinely global community, is consistently confirmed by international independent assessments. The University is ranked 104th in the world – a rise of five places on the previous year – and 13th in the UK according to the 2018 Times Higher Education World University Rankings. We also came in at number 42 out of 200 universities in Europe and we're in the top 50 most international universities in the world, with a ranking of 42 out of 800 leading universities worldwide.

The most recent Research Excellence Framework in 2014 confirmed our place as a world-leading university. The results demonstrated our research excellence across a range of disciplines, putting us in the top 10 per cent of all UK universities. The University is one of the 24 universities that make up the Russell Group. Members of this group are committed to maintaining the very best research, an outstanding teaching and learning experience and unrivalled links with business and the public sector.

In the Times Higher Education Student Experience Survey 2017, we were voted number one in the Russell Group and third best university nationally, with our Students' Union voted best in the UK for the ninth year in a row. The University is ranked at number 25 in the Sunday Times 100 Best Not-For-Profit Organisations to Work For 2017. We're the only university to be featured in this ranking of Britain's happiest and most motivated workforces.

The University grew out of the Sheffield Medical School (founded in 1828), Firth College (1879) and the Sheffield Technical School (1884). These three institutions came together in 1897 to form the University College of Sheffield, which in turn became the University of Sheffield in 1905.