Scholarships at University of Warwick

The Commonwealth Scholarship Commission is responsible for managing the Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Plan. A range of scholarships are available to study in the UK, at either Master's or PhD study.

Number of Awards:

Different scholarships available for Citizens of High Income, and Least Developed Countries and Fragile States.

Value of Awards:

Full payment of academic fees and a maintenance stipend, return airfare to the UK, additional support for other expenses.

WMG Excellence Scholarships are merit-based awards available on a competitive basis. Applications will be judged on past academic achievement, professional experience, motivation for study, and your vision for the future.

Eligibility Criteria

Applicants should have received an offer to study on a full-time MSc course within the WMG department, commencing September 2024.

Applicants should have an excellent academic track record and/or a strong professional profile to qualify for consideration.

Eligible courses

• MSc Cyber Security Engineering

• MSc Cyber Security and Management

• MSc e-Business Management

• MSc Digital Transformation for Healthcare

• MSc Engineering Business Management

• MSc Games Engineering

• MSc Healthcare Operational Management

• MSc Innovation and Entrepreneurship

• MSc International Trade, Strategy and Operations

• MSc Management for Business Excellence

• MSc Programme and Project Management

• MSc Smart, Connected and Autonomous Vehicles

• MSc Sustainable Automotive Engineering

• MSc Supply Chain and Logistics Management

WMG Excellence Scholarships are for self-funded students only, however students taking a student loan, on a scholarship-loan scheme, or partially funded by an external organisation may also be considered. WMG Excellence Scholarships will be awarded across all WMG full-time UK based MSc programmes to optimise nationality and gender diversity.

Number of Awards:

Up to 100 awards available.

WMG is a large department with over 1400 students joining the full-time Master’s programme each year.

Value of Awards

WMG Excellence Scholarships are awarded on a percentage reduction of the tuition fees, with awards ranging from 10% to 50% tuition fee discount.

Maintaining an elite level sporting career alongside academic study can be difficult. We aim to help you continue your dual academic and sporting careers whilst studying at university.

Eligibility Criteria

• Open to anyone that is competing for their county or country.

• Awarded on an annual basis at the discretion of a panel.

• We welcome undergraduates, current students and postgraduates to apply.

• Your sport must have a Sport England recognised governing body to be considered.

Number of Awards Available: There are multiple awards available.

Value of Awards

There are various levels of support available. This financial award contributes towards training, equipment, and competition expenses. As a Warwick Sport scholar, you will also have access to numerous services including a strength and conditioning team, physiotherapy team, nutritionist and a performance psychologist. 

A number of Music Scholarships are available each year, to encourage talented musicians to make Warwick their first choice for music-making and for a degree. There is no music degree at Warwick and hence these Scholarships are open to students from all subjects. Many Warwick music scholars have continued their musical education at colleges and conservatoires in the UK and abroad after obtaining a first degree in an unrelated discipline.

Eligibility Criteria:

Music Scholarship and Exhibition holders are expected to contribute heavily to the musical life of the campus. Scholarships are only given to students with exceptional musical ability so scholars will have a key role of playing to a high standard and inspiring the students they play alongside in their music-making. We also encourage scholars to take advantage of the excellent music tutors who work here.

Value of Awards:

Scholarship awards are currently £500 for each year of residence at Warwick. Exhibition awards are also £500 but these are for one year only.

There are up to three Warwick Law School Research Scholarships available.

Eligibility Criteria:

Applicants must have submitted an application for our PhD programme or be in their first year of study at Warwick Law School.

Value of Awards:

Full fees for three years, plus a stipend.

Application Deadline:

The closing date to apply for this scholarship is 31 January 2025.

We believe there should be no barrier to talent. That's why we are committed to offering a scholarship that makes it easier for gifted, ambitious international learners to pursue their academic interests at one of the UK's most prestigious universities.

Our Warwick Undergraduate Global Excellence Scholarship is your invitation to join us in the creation of knowledge that can change both the world, and your own career opportunities. It is our way of showing that there is no barrier to talent.

In 2024 Warwick awarded scholarships totalling just under £1 million to students from more than 33 different nationalities worldwide.

For 2025 entry there will be up to 15 full-fee awards, up to 170 half-fee awards and up to 10 £2,000 (IFP only) awards.

Eligibility

To apply for this scholarship, you must:

• Be self-funded.

• Be classed as an 'overseas' or ‘international-fee paying’ student for tuition fee purposes.

• Have applied for a full-time undergraduate course at the University of Warwick starting in Autumn 2025 before the UCAS application deadline of 29 January 2025. The course can be from any subject area (including our Foundation courses, but excluding the MBChB course). For a full list of our undergraduate courses, please visit our study pages.

• By 14th May 2025 you must be in receipt of an offer of a place to study at Warwick starting September 2025.

Applications will open on 14th November 2024.