No application is required for the International Office Postgraduate Taught Scholarship or the Queen's Business School Scholarships for South East Asia . We will automatically assess your application and if you are eligible we will issue confirmation of your award shortly after you've received 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:

Queen's Loyalty Scholarship

Queen's Family Scholarship

Vice Chancellor's International Attainment Scholarship

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 £22,050 for 2022/23 

International Office Postgraduate Taught Scholarship reduction on tuition fees of £3000 for eligible Fee Rate 2 programmes

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

Queen's Loyalty Scholarship or Queen's 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 Office Postgraduate Scholarships:
 

• PG Certificate Programmes
• PG Diploma Programmes
• MTh Theology
• Master Business Administration (MBA) programme
• All Distance Learning Programmes
• Foundation Degree Programmes
• Non-standard fee courses including part-time programmes

No application is necessary. Applicants will be automatically assessed shortly after receiving their offer and will receive confirmation of their award from the International Office.

Applicants for MSc Economics with a fee rate of £19,300 may be eligible for the scholarships shown in the table below:  

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

Applicants for the following programmes with a fee rate of £21,500 may be eligible for the scholarships shown in the table below: 

• MSc Actuarial Science
• MSc Business Analytics
• MSc Human Resource Management
• MSc Finance
• MSc Quantitative Finance
• MSc International Business
• MSc Management
• MSc Marketing
• MSc Risk Management and Financial Regulation 

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

Applicants for MSc Accounting and Finance with a fee rate of £22,600 may be eligible for the scholarships shown in the table below:  

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

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

• Be a new student enrolling at Queen's University Belfast for the first time
• Have an unconditional offer
• Pay 90% of your net tuition fees by the appropriate deadline:

Postgraduate Taught unconditional offer holders 30 June 2022

Postgraduate Research unconditional offer holders not later than 90 days before the start date given in their offer letter

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

The tables below may be helpful but 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 

 Postgraduate Taught unconditional offer holders should pay by 30 June 2022 to receive the award.

 Postgraduate Research unconditional offer holders should pay not later than 90 days before the start date given in their offer letter

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 for 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 Queen's University 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 

 The criteria is not for a high quality video production, 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 Queen's University 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.

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 WeTransfer programme to send your video and would ask that you test it to ensure that it can be opened, before sending

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

A panel of academics from all 3 faculties sit in July 2022 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 2022 you may assume you have been unsuccessful. 

Application is required for the Queen's Loyalty and Queen's Family Scholarship 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:

Queen's Loyalty Scholarship

Queen's Family Scholarship

No application is required for the Law (Juris Doctor) Scholarship, your application will be automatically assessed and you will receive confirmation of your award shortly after your offer.

 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 £22,700 for 2022/23 

Queen's Loyalty Scholarship or Queen's 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

Applicants for Law (Juris Doctor) programme with a tuition fee of £19,200 for 2022/23 may be eligible for the scholarships shown in the table below:  

Law (Juris Doctor) Scholarship provides a fee reduction of £2500 for your first year of study

Queen's Loyalty Scholarship or Queen's 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 International Office 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 Office 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 Office 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 Office Postgraduate Taught Scholarship - no application is needed.

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.

Terms and condiions apply

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

• PG Certificate Programmes
• PG Diploma Programmes
• MTh Theology
• Master Business Administration (MBA) programme
• 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

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