Featured byLoughborough University
Overview
Scholarship type
Merit based
Number of scholarships to award
Multiple
Grant
Up to 100% off tuition fees for one year
Scholarship coverage
- tuition fee reduction
Description
Loughborough University has committed to be an internationally engaged research‐intensive university that delivers meaningful impact and keeps students at its heart. Our Creating Better Futures 2030 strategy encourages us to use our distinctive strengths to support, inspire and empower people to achieve extraordinary things.
The Global Impact Scholarship is one of the many practical steps for us implementing this strategy while recognising the importance of our external influence and the impact of our actions on the world around us and the challenges that face us as a society.
Benefits
This scholarship offers up to 100% off the course fees for your chosen postgraduate taught course for one year.
Eligibility
To be eligible for this scholarship, you must meet the following criteria:
- Currently holding an offer (conditional or unconditional) for an eligible postgraduate taught programme
- Currently domiciled (permanently living) in country listed in the table below.
- Evidence of exceptional academic achievement (normally a first-class honours degree)
- Commitment to contribute to the development of your home country after graduation.
- Full understanding of the costs involved in coming to study and live in the UK
- Evidence of strong motivation and initiative to secure funds to cover the remainder of the costs involved
- Applicants should be high calibre graduates with the personal, intellectual, and interpersonal qualities necessary for leadership and driving sustainable change within communities.
Applicants are advised to spend considerable effort ensuring that this application reaches the selectors in a form that is clear, well presented and which reflects their abilities and motivation.
Scholarship requirements
Disciplines
Any
Locations
United Kingdom
Nationality
78 nationalities
Study experience required
Bachelor
Age
Unknown
Application
Application deadline
15 Apr 2026
The scholarship application procedure is an open competition. Students may only apply for the scholarship after an offer for a place on one of Loughborough University’s master's programmes has been made. Students who are in possession of an offer (conditional or unconditional) of a place on a master's course can apply for the scholarship using the application form.
Applications will be initially shortlisted and the final decision on the awards will be made by a selection panel of senior staff of the university.
Application deadline:
The latest deadline to have submitted an application to study is 15 April 2026.
The deadline for applying for a Global Impact Scholarship is 6 May 2026.