North America Postgraduate Full 1 Year Housing Award
Queen’s City Centre Housing Scholarship Available for 7 North America Postgraduate Applicants
At Queen’s, we are committed to welcoming students from North America and helping them achieve their ambitions. That’s why, we offer prestigious, competitive scholarships to new international students.
We are pleased to offer x7 full year housing scholarships to postgraduate applicants. These scholarships will cover your housing for 51 weeks in a private en-suite room in Belfast City Centre (Elms BT1).
Queen’s housing be viewed here: www.qub.ac.uk/accommodation/student-accommodation
Application closing date: Sunday 26 April 2026 - 12am GMT
Elms BT1 is an ideal choice if you’d like to live in the bustling City Centre, close to shops, cafes and restaurants, but only 20 mins walk or a short bus ride from Queen’s main campus.
With support staff onsite 24/7, students will live in one of our 667 en suite bedrooms in a shared apartment with communal kitchen-dining area. Students also have the convenience of an onsite gym, the perfect place to work out any time of the day.
Terms and conditions:
- Students must hold an offer to study a Postgraduate taught programme for entry in September 2026
- If successfully allocated a Housing Award students must accept their offer of study within 3 days.
- The scholarship can only be used in Queen’s accommodation and is not available for third party or private accommodation providers
- The scholarship is exclusively for new international students who reside in the USA or Canada
- Students must be classified as international fee-paying students paying the full international tuition fee rate with their domicile being the USA or Canada in order to be considered for this discount
- Students must hold an offer for a place on a full-time postgraduate taught programme at the Queen’s University Belfast campus, starting in the academic year 2026/27 and prior to commencement of study have met any academic and language conditions attached to their offer as stated in their offer letter
- The scholarship cannot be used in lieu of any required deposit and no cash alternative is available.
- If you wish to upgrade your housing option, you will be responsible for covering the additional cost
- If you wish to defer your entry to the University your scholarship will not be transferred
- Students must be self-funded
- If you exit on a lower qualification (i.e., a PG Diploma instead of a Master's degree), you will not be eligible for the full scholarship
- This scholarship is for housing only, any scholarships you have received for tuition fee’s will not be affected
- The University reserves the right to vary all or any scholarship, discounts and regulations at its sole discretion
To apply for the North America Housing Award, you must submit a short video and complete the online application form.
This is a competitive process, and not all applications will be successful. The successful candidates will be notified by email by Monday 4 May, if you have not been contacted by this date you can assume you have been unsuccessful.
Your video should be on the following topic:
''In no more than 2 mins please tell us how your MA program at Queen's will contribute to your future goals of leadership and service to your local and global communities''
Please read the guidelines carefully:
- Videos should be a piece to camera where you speak directly to the selection committee through the camera.
- The criteria is not for a high quality video production, you will be judged on the content and the quality of presentation skills only.
- Listen to your video before submitting and make sure that your voice can be heard. Background noise can interfere with recordings e.g. air conditioning or traffic noise. Any videos that cannot clearly be heard or understood due to excessive background noise will not be accepted.
- 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. If we cannot open your video your submission will not be accepted.
- 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.to northamerica@qub.ac.uk
- Please ensure that you clearly identify your submission by including your Queen's University Belfast application reference and your full name. This can be included in the message section when sending your video file by WeTransfer
- We will not open any attachments which are submitted with an email which does not clearly identify the applicants full name and application reference or UCAS ID.
- We will accept only one video submission per applicant and this will be the first video received. Any additional submissions will be returned unopened.
- Once your video has been submitted, it is not possible to change it retrospectively
- Make sure you leave sufficient time for us to receive your video. During the busy period before the scholarship deadline a file uploaded to WeTransfer may take several hours to be delivered.
- The deadline is Sunday 26 April 2026 - 12am GMT. Any videos received after this deadline will not be opened.
*WeTransfer offers a free file transfer service for 3 days with a file size limit of 2GB. Your video will be downloaded before the 3-day file expiry date which WeTransfer will confirm, and we will send you an acknowledgement. Please be patient and allow us time to download your video before contacting us.
Additional queries should be directed to northamerica@qub.ac.uk
“Studying at Queen’s University Belfast has been such an incredible and life-changing experience that I would recommend to anyone who is considering it. My housing scholarship helped cover my stay in Queen’s Accommodation for the academic year. The scholarship aided in making my postgraduate studies more financially feasible for myself and my family, therefore helping me direct my focus more fully to my academic pursuits while at QUB.
The accommodation is fantastic, safe, and a great place that feels like a home away from home. The North America team is so helpful and supportive and I’m so grateful for everything the team and the university as a whole has done to make such a great experience possible. If anyone was looking into a PG Housing Scholarship, I’d advise them wholeheartedly to go for it and apply!”