Call For Application: Global Excellence Scholarships At University College Dublin (UCD) 2024 for Master

  •  Master
  •  31-Mar-2024
  •   Ireland
  • $$  Varies

University College Dublin (UCD) in Ireland is one of the world's top universities and is the most popular university for international students in Ireland. Each year, UCD offers a number of Global Excellence Scholarship to international students (on non-EU fees) who are starting a course at UCD in September.

To apply for the Global Excellence Scholarship, students must first have received an offer (or conditional offer) to study in an eligible UCD course.

Scholarship awards are applicable to full time Masters programmes, this is excluding all clinical programmes and Masters programmes in the Smurfit School of Business, joint masters programmes, online programmes and the MSc in Digital Investigation & Forensic Computing

University College Dublin Information

University College Dublin Grants

Call For Application: Global Excellence Scholarships At University College Dublin (UCD) 2024 for Master Established in 1854, University College Dublin is a non-profit public higher education institution located in the suburban setting of the medium-sized city of Dublin (population range of 500,000-1,000,000 inhabitants), County Dublin. Officially accredited and/or recognized by the Department of Education and Skills, Ireland, University College Dublin (UCD) is a very large (uniRank enrollment range: 30,000-34,999 students) coeducational higher education institution. University College Dublin (UCD) offers courses and programs leading to officially recognized higher education degrees in several areas of study. See the uniRank degree levels and areas of study matrix below for further details. This 165 years old higher-education institution has a selective admission policy based on students' past academic record and grades. The admission rate range is 20-30% making this Irish higher education organization a very selective institution. International applicants are eligible to apply for enrollment.

Eligibility Criteria

Applicants must be African, current residents of an African country, and classified as non-EU for tuition fee and application purposes;

  • Open to all successful applicants to eligible full time, taught programmes who are citizens of and resident in Africa.
  • Eligible programmes are limited to those that are undergraduate and graduate taught programmes, where the student must be based in Dublin and no part of the programme is awarded by another institution. All Clinical Programmes are ineligible for the Global
    Excellence Scholarship. A full list of eligible programmes is provided in Eligible Programmes.
  • Applicants must be self-funding and classified as non-EU for tuition fee and application purposes;
  • This is a highly competitive scholarship, and as such successful applicants are likely to have obtained a first class honours degree (For Masters).
  • Scholarships are renewable annually subject to the student maintaining an annual grade point average of no less than 3.08/4.2 (upper second class)
  • In order to be eligible to apply for this advertised scholarship, applicants must have ‘Offer’, ‘Conditional Offer’, ‘Accept’ or ‘Conditional Accept’ status associated with their application;

Offered Benefits

  • 100% Global Excellence Tuition Fee Scholarship
  • 50% Global Excellence Tuition Fee Scholarship

Application Process

Go to University College Dublin (UCD) on hub.ucd.ie to apply
Apply Here
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