Scholarships at University of Sheffield

We're offering 100+ scholarships worth £10,000 each for home fee-paying students starting a taught postgraduate course in 2024.

These scholarships are for students who meet at least one of our widening participation criteria and/or students who achieve a first in their undergraduate degree.

If your application is successful, you can use the scholarship towards fees or living expenses – the choice is yours.

Eligibility criteria

You can apply for a scholarship if you meet all of the following four criteria:

• You will be studying a taught postgraduate course full-time or part-time for a maximum of four years.

• You are paying the 'home' rate of fees.

• You are not already qualified at masters level or higher.

• You are self funded. Courses funded by the NHS, the Initial Teacher Training bursary, or courses that are eligible for undergraduate funding (such as integrated masters) are not eligible.

And one or both of the following:

• You are from a group that is evidentially under-represented among the institution's taught masters population - see the widening participation criteria below.

• You have already achieved or currently predicted a first class undergraduate degree - see the academic merit criteria below.

Academic merit criteria

You are eligible to apply for the academic merit element of the scholarship if you achieve, or are predicted, a first in your undergraduate degree.

If you are awarded a scholarship, we will require an academic transcript as evidence to confirm you achieved a first.

Applications are now open. The deadline to apply is 1pm Tuesday 7 May 2024.