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

Queen's Loyalty Scholarship - Application required.

Queen's Family Scholarship -  Application required. 

Vice Chancellor's International Attainment Scholarship - Application required. 

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

Queen's Management School Scholarships for the Middle East and North Africa - No application required. Excludes MBA.

*Exclusions apply

All awards are made subject to terms and conditions.

Additional awards are available which are not administered by the International Office, use the links to find more information and use contact details given for any queries:

Copty Scholarship

No application is required for the International Office Postgraduate Taught Scholarship or the Queen's Management School Scholarships for the Middle East and North Africa. 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 £23,150 for 2023/24 

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

Scholarships of £5000 are available exclusively for outstanding international applicants from Middle East and North Africa who choose to study postgraduate taught programmes at Queen’s Management School.

You will be automatically assessed shortly after receiving your offer and will receive confirmation of your award from the International Office. No application is required for this scholarship.

Queen's Management School applicants may apply for the Vice-Chancellor's International Attainment Scholarship and the Early Confirmation Award

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 the following programmes with a fee rate of £23,100 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 £24,300 may be eligible for the scholarships shown in the table below:  

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

A £1500 reduction in tuition fees is available to new international students beginning a full-time course in the academic year 2023/24 who hold an unconditional offer and pay 90% of net tuition fees by the following deadlines:

Postgraduate Taught unconditional offer holders 30 June 2023

Postgraduate Research unconditional offer holders not later than 90 days 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 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 2023

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 2023 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

For postgraduate taught applicants the deadline for the Vice Chancellor's International Attainment Scholarship is 15:00 BST 9 May 2023.

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 2023 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 2023 you may assume you have been unsuccessful. 

Queen's 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. 

Queen's 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 Queen's University 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 90 days before 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.

Applications open shortly for the Queen's 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 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 when applications open:

Queen's Loyalty Scholarship

Queen's Family 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 £23,850 for 2023/24 

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

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