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International Postgraduate Taught Scholarship -  For all* new postgraduate applicants NO application required.

°Ç¸ç³Ô¹Ï Business School- For all* new postgraduate applicants to °Ç¸ç³Ô¹Ï Business School NO application required.

°Ç¸ç³Ô¹Ï Loyalty Scholarship - Application required.

°Ç¸ç³Ô¹Ï Family Scholarship -  Application required. 

Vice Chancellor's International Attainment Scholarship - Application required. 

Early Confirmation Award - Can be combined with another International Scholarship to increase the value of your award.

*Exclusions apply

All awards are made subject to terms and conditions.

No application is required for the International Postgraduate Taught Scholarship or °Ç¸ç³Ô¹Ï Business School We will automatically assess your application and if you are eligible you will receive confirmation of your award with your offer.

Contact us at internationalscholarships@qub.ac.uk quoting your name and application reference if you haven't received confirmation.

All other awards require you to make an application, but you should only do this after you have been offered a place to study on your chosen programme.

Links to application forms can be found below:

All awards are made subject to terms and conditions.

International Postgraduate Taught Scholarship - reduction on tuition fees of £2000-£5000 for eligible programmes. 

°Ç¸ç³Ô¹Ï Business School - £6000 discount on eligible PGT programmes offered by Queen’s Business School

Vice Chancellor's International Attainment Scholarship 50% reduction on tuition fees for all years of your programme

°Ç¸ç³Ô¹Ï Loyalty Scholarship or °Ç¸ç³Ô¹Ï Family Scholarship 20% reduction* on tuition fees

Early Confirmation Award a £1500 reduction on tuition fees for unconditional offer holders paying net tuition fees by the deadline.

All awards are offered subject to terms and conditions

The following programmes are excluded from eligibility for International Postgraduate Scholarships:

• PG Certificate Programmes
• PG Diploma Programmes
• MTh Theology
• All Distance Learning Programmes
• Foundation Degree Programmes
• All °Ç¸ç³Ô¹Ï Business School postgraduate taught programmes
• Non-standard fee courses including part-time programmes
• MSc (T) Applied Behaviour Analysis or MSc (T) Business for Agri-Food and Rural Enterprise
• MSc Advanced Clinical Pharmacy Practice, MSc Advanced Pharmacy Practice, MSc Advanced Social Work Children, Young People & Families. MSc Mental Health and Mental Capacity Law, MSc Specialist Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, MSc Systemic practice and family therapy, MSc Systemic Psychotherapy
• MSc Professional Nursing Children and Young People, MSc Professional Nursing Adult, MSc Professional Nursing Learning Disabilities, MSc Professional Nursing Mental Health and MSc Midwifery

A £1500 reduction in tuition fees is available to new international students beginning a full-time course in the academic year 2026/27 who hold an unconditional offer and pay their of net tuition fees in full by the following deadlines:

January 2026 Students must pay on or before their programme start date, as shown in your offer letter, to qualify for the Early Confirmation Award. 

Postgraduate Taught unconditional offer holders 18 September 2026.

Postgraduate Research unconditional offer holders before the start date given in their offer letter.

You must comply with all the following conditions by the appropriate deadline:

• Be a new student enrolling at °Ç¸ç³Ô¹Ï Belfast for the first time
• Have an unconditional offer
• Pay your net tuition fees in full by the appropriate deadline:

January 2026 Students must pay on or before their programme start date, as shown in your offer letter, to qualify for the Early Confirmation Award. 

Postgraduate Taught unconditional offer holders 18 September 2026.

Postgraduate Research unconditional offer holders before the start date given in their offer letter

All awards are offered subject to meeting our terms and conditions.

Net tuition fees = Full tuition fee - any scholarship confirmed to you by International Scholarships - Early Confirmation Award

If you are still unclear as to how much you should pay, please contact international scholarships 

The tables below may be helpful but if you are still unclear as to how much you should pay, please contact international scholarships 

January 2026 Students must pay on or before their programme start date, as shown in your offer letter, to qualify for the Early Confirmation Award. 

Postgraduate Taught unconditional offer holders 18 September 2026.

Postgraduate Research unconditional offer holders should pay before the start date given in their offer letter

Scholarships of £6000 are available exclusively for outstanding international applicants who choose to study eligible postgraduate taught programmes at Queen’s Business School.

You will be automatically assessed and will receive confirmation of your award with your offer. No application is required for this scholarship.

°Ç¸ç³Ô¹Ï Business School applicants may apply for the Vice-Chancellor's International Attainment Scholarship and the Early Confirmation Award

No application is necessary. 

You will be automatically assessed and will receive confirmation of your award with your offer. 

Applicants for the following programmes with a fee rate of £26,500 may be eligible for the scholarships shown in the table below: 

 *All awards are made subject to eligibility and meeting our terms and conditions.

°Ç¸ç³Ô¹Ï Loyalty Scholarship*  applicants will find this scholarship will be cancelled in favour of the more valuable Queen’s Business School Scholarship

°Ç¸ç³Ô¹Ï Family Scholarship** applicants will find this scholarship will be cancelled in favour of the more valuable Queen’s Business School Scholarship

The Master of Business Administration MBA and  Master of Business Administration MBA with internship are both eligible to receive a Queen’s Business School Scholarship worth £6000.

Scholarship values for postgraduate students paying full international tuition fees of £29,400 for a Master of Business Administration MBA or  Master of Business Administration MBA with internship programme.

°Ç¸ç³Ô¹Ï Loyalty Scholarship*  applicants will find this scholarship will be cancelled in favour of the more valuable Queen’s Business School Scholarship

°Ç¸ç³Ô¹Ï Family Scholarship** applicants will find this scholarship will be cancelled in favour of the more valuable Queen’s Business School Scholarship

You must have received an offer of a place to study an eligible postgraduate taught programme at the University which you have firmly accepted, completed the online application form and submitted a short video by the deadline of Thursday 7 May 2026 at 15:00 BST.

Eligible programmes are shown below:

• MSc Accounting, Finance and Analytics 
• MSc Advanced Food Safety
• MSc Animal Behaviour and Welfare
• MA Arts Management
• MSc Bioinformatics & Computational Genomics
• MSc (T) Biomedical & Clin Rese.
• MSc Biopharmaceutical Engineering
• Master of Business Administration MBA 
• Master of Business Administration MBA with Internship
• MSc Business Analytics
• MSc (Res) Cancer Medicine
• MSc Climate Change
• MSc Clinical Anatomy
• MSc (T) Construction and Project Management
• MSc Ecological Management & Conservation Biology
• MSc Educational Leadership
• MSc Industrial Pharmaceutics
• LLM Intellectual Property Law
• LLM International Commercial and Business Law
• MSc International Public Policy
• LLM Law and Technology
• MSc Marketing
• MA Media and Broadcast Production
• MSc Molecular Biology and Biotechnology
• MSc Net Zero Engineering
• MSc Net Zero with Year in Industry
• MSc One Health: Parasitology and Infection Biology 
• MPH Public Health
• MSc (T) Robotic and Artificial Intelligence
• MA Teaching English to Speakers of other Languages (TESOL) and Applied Linguistics

See full course details on CourseFinder

Applicants to any other postgraduate taught programme are not eligible for consideration. 

Vice Chancellor's International Attainment Scholarship - Postgraduate Taught 

Please do not send references, academic transcripts or any form of supporting documentation with your scholarship application.

Any documents will be deleted and will not be taken into consideration by the panel.

Your application should consist of your online application form and video submission.

The Vice Chancellor's International Attainment Scholarship will provide 50% of the cost of tuition fees and is awarded each year up to a maximum of two years.

The Vice Chancellor's International Attainment Scholarship offers:

4 awards for postgraduate taught students

Your video should outline why you want to come and study at °Ç¸ç³Ô¹Ï Belfast and how you believe your programme of choice will benefit you in your future career aspirations. Please keep to the subject matter, we do not require a list of your academic achievements.

Guidelines 

Please ensure that your video can be opened and viewed by us using VLC media player. VLC media player supports many video file formats, and we would recommend MP4.

We would suggest using the programme to send your video and would ask that you test it to ensure that it can be opened, before sending. Applications submitted via YouTube will not be considered.

The criteria are not for high-quality video productions, you will be judged on the content and the quality of presentation skills only.

• Please ensure that your video is clearly audible. 
• If we cannot open your video your submission will not be accepted.
• Please ensure that you clearly identify your submission by including your °Ç¸ç³Ô¹Ï Belfast application reference and your full name on the email which accompanies your video.
• Any videos that exceed the requested length of 2 minutes will NOT be considered.

For postgraduate taught applicants the deadline for the Vice Chancellor's International Attainment Scholarship is Thursday 7 May 2026 at 15:00 BST.

You must have submitted your video, online application and firmly accepted your offer by this deadline.

Please ensure you leave adequate time to submit your video as these can take some time to forward during busy periods. If we receive your video after the deadline, it will not be considered.

If you have not firmly accepted your offer by the deadline your application for the Vice Chancellor's International Attainment Scholarship will not be considered.

This is a competitive process and not all applications will be successful.

A panel of academics from all 3 faculties sit in July to determine which applications are successful.

We contact the successful candidates by telephone in the first instance.

Please be aware we contact only the successful candidates. If you have not been contacted by the end of July you may assume you have been unsuccessful. 

°Ç¸ç³Ô¹Ï Loyalty Scholarship, for Queen’s University alumni - Application required. Applicants must have successfully completed the full duration of their previous programme with Queen’s University Belfast. 

°Ç¸ç³Ô¹Ï Family Scholarship, for children, grandchildren or siblings of current Queen’s University Belfast students or Queen’s University Belfast Alumni - Application required. The scholarship may only be claimed by students whose grandparent, parent or sibling is currently pursuing, or has already completed, a full duration* undergraduate or postgraduate programme at °Ç¸ç³Ô¹Ï Belfast. (*All years of programme must be completed at Queen’s University Belfast).

Early Confirmation Award, for unconditional offer holders paying tuition fees in full not later than  the start date given in their offer letter. Where eligible this can be combined with another International Office administered scholarship to increase the value of your award.

Contact International Scholarships for the °Ç¸ç³Ô¹Ï Loyalty and Family Scholarships.

All awards are made subject to terms and conditions.

We would recommend that you also review the options available through the Graduate School and on the website at Find a PhD.

Application is required for the °Ç¸ç³Ô¹Ï Loyalty and °Ç¸ç³Ô¹Ï Family Scholarship, but you should only do this after you have been offered a place to study on your chosen programme.

°Ç¸ç³Ô¹Ï Loyalty Scholarship - contact International Scholarships

°Ç¸ç³Ô¹Ï Family Scholarship - contact International Scholarships

All awards are made subject to terms and conditions.

All awards are offered subject to terms and conditions.

Fee rate 2 programmes are laboratory based and have a tuition fee of £28,000 for 2026/27

°Ç¸ç³Ô¹Ï Loyalty Scholarship or °Ç¸ç³Ô¹Ï Family Scholarship 20% reduction on tuition fees

Early Confirmation Award a £1500 reduction on tuition fees for unconditional offer holders paying net tuition fees by the deadline.

All awards are offered subject to terms and conditions.

We do not offer full fee scholarships but for exceptionally talented postgraduate taught applicants we offer the Vice Chancellor's International Attainment Scholarship.

This awards a 50% reduction in tuition fees for all years of the programme. 

Vice-Chancellor's International Attainment Scholarship 

All awards are offered subject to applicants meeting the terms and conditions.

All International scholarships are awarded as a discount on tuition fees.

This will be credited to your tuition fee account following enrolment.

No cash alternative is available.

International scholarships cannot be used in lieu of any required deposit and no cash alternative is available.

Where you are required to make an online application, academic or professional achievements will not be considered. Any documents, certificates or references attached to any application will be disregarded and deleted.

All applications are assessed on their individual merits and are considered equally.

Applicants can only apply and be considered for International Scholarships after they have been offered a place to study on their chosen eligible programme. 

Where you are required to make an online application, this cannot be considered in advance of you receiving an offer of a place to study your chosen programme.

You will be automatically assessed for the International Postgraduate Taught Scholarship or any applicable °Ç¸ç³Ô¹Ï Business School Scholarship - no application is needed.

Please read the terms and conditions of the awards carefully to assess your eligibility, if you have any queries about your eligibility, please contact International Scholarships

If your fees are being paid by a sponsor, this could include your government or a charitable organisation, you are not eligible for awards offered by International Scholarships. Only self-funded international students paying the full international tuition fee rate are eligible for awards offered by International Scholarships.

Applicants funding their studies with educational loans are considered to be self-funded and are eligible to receive awards offered by International Scholarships, subject to meeting terms and conditions.

You may apply and/or be considered for more than one award administered by Queen’s University Belfast but if successful would receive only the highest value award with the lower value award cancelled or allocated to another applicant.

International Office scholarships are available to new students and are paid for your first year of study only. 

All scholarships are for your first year of study only with the exception of the Vice Chancellor's International Attainment Scholarship which is paid for all years of your programme up to a maximum of 2 years.

All scholarships are offered subject to terms and conditions.

The following programmes are excluded from eligibility for International Scholarships: 

• PG Certificate Programmes
• PG Diploma Programmes
• MTh Theology
• All Distance Learning Programmes
• Foundation Degree Programmes
• Non-standard fee courses including part-time programmes
• Higher Doctorates - Doctor of Divinity (DD), Doctor of Laws (LLD), Doctor of Letters (DLitt), Doctor of Science (DSc), Doctor of Science (Economics) (DSc (Econ)), Doctor of Science, (Education) (DSc (Ed)) and Doctor of Social Science (DSSc)
• External PhD programmes where students only undertake part of their research at Queen’s University.
• PhD programmes by Published Works
• MSc (T) Applied Behaviour Analysis, MSc (T) Business for Agri-Food and Rural Enterprise.
• MSc Advanced Clinical Pharmacy Practice, MSc Advanced Pharmacy Practice, MSc Advanced Social Work Children, Young People & Families. MSc Mental Health and Mental Capacity Law, MSc Specialist Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, MSc Systemic practice and family therapy, MSc Systemic Psychotherapy
• MSc Professional Nursing Children and Young People, MSc Professional Nursing Adult, MSc Professional Nursing Learning Disabilities, MSc Professional Nursing Mental Health and MSc Midwifery.

Only international students paying the full international tuition fee rate are eligible for International Office scholarships.