Scholarships of £6000 are available exclusively for outstanding international applicants who choose to study eligible postgraduate taught programmes at Queen’s Business School.

You will be automatically assessed and will receive confirmation of your award with your offer. No application is required for this scholarship.

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

No application is necessary. 

You will be automatically assessed and will receive confirmation of your award with your offer. 

Applicants for the following programmes with a fee rate of £26,500 may be eligible for the scholarships shown in the table below: 

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

Queen's Loyalty Scholarship*  applicants will find this scholarship will be cancelled in favour of the more valuable Queen’s Business School Scholarship

Queen's Family Scholarship** applicants will find this scholarship will be cancelled in favour of the more valuable Queen’s Business School Scholarship

The Master of Business Administration MBA and  Master of Business Administration MBA with internship are both eligible to receive a Queen’s Business School Scholarship worth £6000.

Scholarship values for postgraduate students paying full international tuition fees of £29,400 for a Master of Business Administration MBA or  Master of Business Administration MBA with internship programme.

Queen's Loyalty Scholarship*  applicants will find this scholarship will be cancelled in favour of the more valuable Queen’s Business School Scholarship

Queen's Family Scholarship** applicants will find this scholarship will be cancelled in favour of the more valuable Queen’s Business School Scholarship

You must have received an offer of a place to study an eligible postgraduate taught programme at the University which you have firmly accepted, completed the online application form and submitted a short video by the deadline of Friday 9 May 2025 at 15:00 BST.

Eligible programmes are shown below:

• MSc Accounting and Finance
• MSc Advanced Architectural Design
• MSc Advanced Food Safety
• MSc Animal Behaviour and Welfare
• MSc Artificial Intelligence
• MA Arts Management
• MSc Bioinformatics & Computational Genomics
• Master of Business Administration MBA 
• Master of Business Administration MBA with Internship
• MSc Business Analytics
• MSc (Res) Cancer Medicine
• MSc Climate Change
• MSc Ecological Management & Conservation Biology
• MSc Educational Leadership
• MSc Experimental Medicine
• MPH Global Health
• MSc Industrial Pharmaceutics
• LLM Intellectual Property Law
• LLM International Commercial and Business Law
• LLM Law and Technology
• MSc Marketing
• MA Media and Broadcast Production
• MSc Molecular Biology and Biotechnology
• MSc Net Zero Engineering
• MSc One Health: Parasitology and Infection Biology
• MPH Public History
• MA Teaching English to Speakers of other Languages (TESOL) and Applied Linguistics

Applicants to any other postgraduate taught programme are not eligible for consideration. 

Vice Chancellor's International Attainment Scholarship - Postgraduate Taught 

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 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 

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. Applications submitted via YouTube will not be considered.

The criteria are not for high-quality video productions, 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.

For postgraduate taught applicants the deadline for the Vice Chancellor's International Attainment Scholarship is Friday 9 May 2025 at 15:00 BST.

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 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 you may assume you have been unsuccessful. 

We do not offer full fee scholarships but for exceptionally talented postgraduate taught applicants we offer the Vice Chancellor's International Attainment Scholarship.

This awards a 50% reduction in tuition fees for all years of the programme. 

Vice-Chancellor's International Attainment Scholarship 

All awards are offered subject to applicants meeting the terms and conditions.

All International 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 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 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 Postgraduate Taught Scholarship or any applicable Queen's Business School Scholarship - no application is needed.

Please read the terms and conditions of the awards carefully to assess your eligibility, if you have any queries about your eligibility, please contact International Scholarships

If your fees are being paid by a sponsor, this could include your government or a charitable organisation, you are not eligible for awards offered by International Scholarships. Only self-funded international students paying the full international tuition fee rate are eligible for awards offered by International Scholarships.

Applicants funding their studies with educational loans are considered to be self-funded and are eligible to receive awards offered by International Scholarships, subject to meeting terms and conditions.

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 up to a maximum of 2 years.

All scholarships 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
• All Queen's Business Postgraduate Taught programmes including Master of Business Administration (MBA)
• 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
• MSc (T) Applied Behaviour Analysis, MSc (T) Autism Spectrum Disorders or MSc (T) Business for Agri-Food and Rural Enterprise

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