International Alumni Bursary (Postgraduate)

Swansea University, United Kingdom

Scholarship overview

The Alumni Bursary rewards international graduates of Swansea University who return for a taught master's or research degree in any subject area. It offsets tuition fees and is awarded automatically to eligible applicants.

Alumni are candidates who completed a full degree at Swansea, for example a bachelor's graduate applying for a taught master's or research programme, a taught master's graduate applying for a further taught course (subject to Same Level Study regulations), or a taught master's graduate applying for a research programme.

Award Information

Completed a full degree programme at Swansea University and met the minimum academic requirement for an award.
Assessed as an overseas student for tuition fee purposes for the most recent postgraduate application.
Satisfactorily completed the original programme admitted to (fall-back qualifications excluded).
Open to full-time and part-time study (part-time awards are pro-rata).
Normally privately funded; cannot be combined with a scholarship from the student's national government or another sponsor. Students on a part-scholarship of up to 50% of full tuition may be considered.
Not eligible: Home (UK) fee-rate students, exchange students, visiting or associate students (including English language students), College Foundation or Pre-Master's students, CELTA students, students on LLM Law and Legal Practice, LLM Professional Legal Practice or Computational Mechanics (joint degree with UPC, Barcelona), students with an exit qualification, students upgrading from MPhil to PhD, and University employees.

First Class: £5,000 per year (all fees).
Second Class, First Division: £3,000 per year (all fees).
Second Class, Second Division: £1,000 per year (all fees).
Taught master's to research degree: £3,000 per year, subject to satisfactory progress.
Can be used only to offset tuition fees; a reduced fee is charged at enrolment for the programme duration, subject to satisfactory annual progression.
Non-transferable. If studies are suspended the bursary is held and carried forward to the year of resumption.

No separate application. Awarded automatically to eligible applicants.

Apply for a taught master's or research programme at Swansea University.
Eligible alumni are identified from the application and the bursary is awarded automatically.

Official links

Official scholarship page

How selection works

The Admissions and Recruitment Committee may use any assessment it considers appropriate to decide which candidates are recommended to Senate for the award. The bursary may be withdrawn, with a right to appeal in writing, if progress is unsatisfactory.

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