Scholarships at University of Southampton

These scholarships are offered by the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission and funded by the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO). They are for students from eligible low and middle income Commonwealth countries who want to study for a full-time taught master’s degree at a UK university. 

This scholarship covers: 

Applications are now open for the 2025 Commonwealth Shared Scholarships. These scholarships are jointly offered by the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission and selected UK universities. They support students from developing Commonwealth countries who may not otherwise be able to study in the United Kingdom.

This scholarship is for postgraduate master’s study and offers: 

• full cover of your tuition fees 

• return travel costs 

• a monthly stipend 

• an allowances package 

• costs for a mandatory tuberculosis test 

Eligibility 

This scholarship is for study on specific courses across a range of subject areas. The list of eligible programmes for 2024 are: 

• MSc Amputation and Prosthetic Rehabilitation

• MSc Electrochemistry and Battery Technologies 

• MSc Genomics

• MSc Global Health

• MA Fashion Management

You must: 

• be a citizen of or have been granted refugee status by an eligible Commonwealth country

• be permanently resident in an eligible Commonwealth country 

• be available to start your studies in the UK by the start of the UK academic year in September 2025 

• achieve a first or upper second class (2:1) honours standard or have a second class degree (2:2) and a relevant postgraduate qualification (usually a master’s degree) by September 2025

• not have studied or worked for one (academic) year or more in a high income country 

• be unable to afford to study in the UK without this scholarship 

• commit to return to your home country within one month of the end date of the scholarship 

• meet the required English language requirements by March 2025 at the latest 

Deadline 

Applications for Commonwealth Shared Scholarships open on 11 November 2024 and close at 4pm UK time on 12 December 2024. 

Scholarships of £3,000 are available to students in their first year of study on an undergraduate or postgraduate taught programme within the School of Engineering. 

There are 20 scholarships available. The £3,000 off tuition fees is for the first year of study only.

Eligibility

To be eligible for a scholarship you must: 

• apply for a University of Southampton course before you apply for the scholarship

• have a course offer before the scholarship closing date

• be an international student 

• pay overseas tuition fees

You must not be in receipt of any external scholarship, more than or equal to your tuition fees.

Deadline

The scholarship is open for applicants from October 2024 until 5pm (UK time) on 11 April 2025.  

In partnership with the British Council and the GREAT Britain Campaign, the University of Southampton is offering a scholarship to students in Egypt applying for any 1 year MSc programme within the Faculty of Medicine or the School of Engineering.

The scholarship awards £10,000 off your tuition fees. 

Eligibility 

To apply for the scholarship, you must have: 

In partnership with the British Council and the GREAT Britain Campaign, the University of Southampton is offering a scholarship to French students applying for a 1-year postgraduate taught programme within the Faculty of Social Science.

The scholarship awards £10,000 off your tuition fees.

Eligibility

To apply for the scholarship, you must have:

• an offer to study a 1-year postgraduate taught programme within the Faculty of Social Science

• a French passport

• have met the University's English language requirements by the scholarship deadline

• be willing to act as an ambassador for UK Higher Education, by promoting the value of studying at a UK University and scholarship advocate  

• be willing to demonstrate future contribution to capacity-building and socio-economic advancement through the benefits achieved after graduation

Deadline 

30 April 2025 17:00 UK time

In partnership with the British Council and the GREAT Britain Campaign, the University of Southampton is offering a scholarship to students in Ghana applying for: 

Any 1 year postgraduate taught programme within the Faculty of Social Sciences  

Or

Anyone of the following programmes within our Faculty of Environment and Life Sciences:  

School of Biological Sciences

• MSc Biodiversity and Conservation 

• MRes Advanced Biological Science 

• MRes Big Data Biology 

• MRes Wildlife Conservation  

• MRes Evolution – from the Galapagos to the 21st century

School of Geography and Environmental Science

• MSc Applied Geographical Information Systems and Remote Sensing 

• MSc Biodiversity and Conservation 

• MSc Environmental Consultancy 

• MSc Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 

• MSc Environmental Pollution Control 

• MSc Sustainability

School of Health Sciences 

• MSc Amputation and Prosthetic Rehabilitation 

• MSc Leadership and Management in Health and Social Care 

• MRes Clinical and Health Research

School of Ocean and Earth Science

• MSc Ocean and Earth Science by Research 

• MSc Oceanography 

• MSc Geophysics

• MSc Global Marine Resources Management 

School of Psychology 

• MSc Foundations of Clinical Psychology 

• MSc Health Psychology 

• MSc Psychology 

The scholarship awards £10,000 off your tuition fees. 

Eligibility 

To apply for the scholarship, you must: 

In partnership with the British Council and the GREAT Britain Campaign, the University of Southampton is offering 2 scholarships to students in Nigeria applying for postgraduate course in:

• any 1-year taught master's programme within the Faculty of Arts and Humanities 

• any 1-year taught MSc programme in Education

The scholarship awards £10,000 off your tuition fees. 

Eligibility 

To apply for the scholarship, you must have: 

• an offer to study a one-year master's taught programme within the Faculty of Arts and Humanities

• a Nigerian passport 

• have met the University's English language requirements by the deadline

• be willing to act as an ambassador for UK Higher Education, by promoting the value of studying at a UK University and scholarship advocate  

• be willing to demonstrate future contribution to capacity-building and socio-economic advancement through the benefits achieved after graduation. 

Deadline 

30 April 2025 17:00 UK time. 

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  

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

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  

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

How we award merit scholarshipsChemistry, Economic, Social and Political Science, Education or MathsWe 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 AstronomyWe 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 schoolsWe 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.

Two scholarships of £5,000 are available to UK and international students applying to study an eligible postgraduate Ageing and Gerontology programme in 2025. 

Eligibility

To be eligible for a scholarship you must hold a conditional or unconditional offer from Southampton for an eligible programme: 

Scholarships of £10,000 are available to international students studying for an arts and humanities:

• undergraduate degree  

• postgraduate master’s degree 

There are 40 scholarships available: 

• 15 for undergraduates 

• 25 for postgraduates 

If you're awarded the scholarship, you get £10,000 off the tuition fees of:

• each year if it's awarded for undergraduate study (except any year you study abroad or spend in employment)

• the first year if it's awarded for postgraduate study

Eligibility

To be eligible for a scholarship you must: 

• have an offer to study  

• need to pay the overseas tuition fee

• exceed your course entry requirements

Applicants must have exceeded the academic requirement of their offer to study. If you’re an undergraduate applicant, and the entry requirement for your programme is A level grade ABB, you must achieve A level grade AAB or an equivalent qualification. 

Deadline to apply 

You can apply from 26 October 2024 until 5pm (UK time) on 21 April 2025.

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

You must submit your expression of interest form, which includes a 500-word statement, by 5pm (UK time) on 23 May 2025.

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 2025 in order to be considered for this scholarship. 

Scholarships of £5,000 are available to international students studying chemistry and chemical engineering at either undergraduate or postgraduate level.  

There are 3 scholarships available. The £5,000 off tuition fees is for the first year of study only.

Eligibility 

To be eligible for a scholarship you must: 

• be an international student 

• hold a conditional or unconditional offer from Southampton 

• be studying on an undergraduate or postgraduate programme in chemistry or chemical engineering

• Required to pay the overseas tuition fee 

You must not be in receipt of any external scholarship.

Deadline

Deadlines are now the same for undergraduates and postgraduates.

You can apply from 21 October 2024 until 5pm (UK time) on 22 April 2025. We will contact you:  

• by 3 June 2025 at the latest if your application is successful 

• after 4 June 2025 if your application is not successful  

This scholarship award is for 1 full fee waiver for a UK or international student, applying to study the part-time, 2 year, MSc Education Online programme starting in 2025.

Please note this scholarship is limited to the MSc Education (online) programme and is not applicable to the MSc Education (full-time, Campus) programme.

Eligibility 

To be eligible for a scholarship you must: 

We are pleased to offer our Southampton Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) Commonwealth Scholarships to new international students from Commonwealth countries to demonstrate our commitment to building greater inclusivity in our ECS community and widening access to enable well qualified international students to study in the UK.

Scholarships of £3,000 are available to international students studying for an Electronics and Computer Science:

• undergraduate degree

• postgraduate master’s degree

There are 20 scholarships available: 

• 10 for undergraduates

• 10 for postgraduates

Eligibility

To be eligible for a scholarship you must:

• have an offer to study 

• need to pay the overseas tuition fee

You must not be in receipt of any external scholarship.

You cannot apply if you are studying:

• on PGCert, PGDip, Foundation or PGR courses

• on Distance Learning courses

• with a partner institution

• at our campus in Malaysia

• on Study Abroad courses

• as an exchange or partner student

• 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

You are eligible to apply for this scholarship if you are resident in:

• Antigua and Barbuda

• Australia

• Bahamas

• Bangladesh

• Barbados

• Belize

• Botswana

• Brunei Darussalam

• Cameroon

• Canada

• Cyprus

• Dominica

• Eswatini

• Fiji Islands

• Gabon

• Gambia

• Ghana

• Grenada

• Guyana

• India

• Jamaica

• Kenya

• Kiribati

• Lesotho

• Malawi

• Malaysia

• Maldives

• Malta

• Mauritius

• Mozambique

• Namibia

• Nauru

• New Zealand

• Nigeria

• Pakistan

• Papua New Guinea

• Rwanda

• Samoa

• Seychelles

• Sierra Leone

• Singapore

• Solomon Islands

• South Africa

• Sri Lanka

• St Kitts and Nevis

• St Lucia

• St Vincent and the Grenadines

• Tanzania

• Togo

• Tonga

• Trinidad and Tobago

• Tuvalu

• Uganda

• Vanuatu

• Zambia

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.

Deadline

Undergraduates and Postgraduates can apply from w/c 23 October 2024 until 5pm (UK time) on 22 April 2025.

Three scholarships of £2,000 off tuition fees are available to UK and international students applying to study MSc Genomics in 2025.

Eligibility 

To be eligible for a scholarship you must:

• hold a conditional or unconditional offer from Southampton for the full-time MSc Genomics programme

• meet your offer conditions, including the University’s English language requirements by the admissions deadline 

Deadline

You can apply for the scholarships until 5pm (UK time) on 30 May 2025.

The Parkes Institute for the Study of Relations between Jews and non-Jews is offering 4 scholarships to students studying for the postgraduate master’s degree in Holocaust: History, Experience, Heritage.

In 2025, we offer 1 James Parkes scholarship of £6,500 and up to 2 Sayers Family scholarships of £1,000. If you are awarded a scholarship, it will be paid towards the tuition fees of your first year of postgraduate study.

Eligibility

To be eligible for a scholarship you must: 

• have an offer to study Holocaust: History, Experience, Heritage, you can be registered full time or part time

• achieve a 2:1 (65% minimum) or an equivalent qualification in your undergraduate studies

• be paying your tuition fees yourself

You must not be getting an external scholarship.

Deadline

You must apply by Tuesday 9 September 2025, midday UK time.

These £5,000 stipend scholarships are available to new undergraduate students in physics and astronomy for the academic year beginning autumn 2025.

They’re intended to help well qualified students to study Physics and Astronomy at Southampton University, and to build greater inclusivity in our academic community.

There are 10 scholarships available – 5 based on merit, and another 5 for applicants who meet widening participation criteria. They are renewable for subsequent years of study (subject to the applicant’s continuing academic performance) for up to £20,000 total.

Eligibility

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

You must:  

• have an offer to study on an undergraduate programme in Physics and Astronomy

• be paying your fees yourself and not be in receipt of any external sponsorship if you are an international student

This scholarship is open to international students who will start their course in 2025 and study for either:

• an undergraduate degree, or

• a postgraduate master’s degree

If your application is successful, we will award you with either:

• £10,000 off your tuition fees, or

• 100% off

The amount we award you will depend on your application and in some instances, the country where you live.

Scholarships for undergraduate study will cover each year of undergraduate study.

Scholarships for postgraduate study will cover the first year of postgraduate study.

There are 25 scholarships available in total, (10 100% fee awards and 15 £10,000 fee awards).

Eligibility

You must: 

• apply for a University of Southampton course before you apply for the scholarship

• have a course offer before the scholarship closing date

• pay the overseas tuition fee 

You must not be in receipt of any external scholarship, that is more than or equal to your tuition fees.

The Southampton Presidential International Scholarship is 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

• undergraduate courses in the Faculty of Medicine 

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

Deadline

Scholarships for 2025 will open for applicants in October 2024 and close at 5pm (UK time) on 22 April 2025.

Two scholarships of £5,000 are available to international students studying for a postgraduate master’s in one of the following study programs:

Two scholarships of £5,000 are available to international students studying on either Sociology and Social Policy MSc or Criminology MSc.

Eligibility

To be eligible for a scholarship you must:

• be an international student

• hold a conditional or unconditional offer from Southampton

• be studying on Sociology and Social Policy MSc or Criminology MSc

• be required to pay the overseas tuition fee

Deadline

The deadline is 31 May 2025, 5pm UK time.

We will contact you by:

• 28 June 2025 at the latest if you are successful

• after 2 July 2025 if you are not successful