The School of Life & Health Sciences is offering 9 scholarships of £15,000 to for the 2019/20 academic year. Scholarships are supported by the Allan and Nesta Ferguson Charitable Trust which is dedicated to improving educational opportunities for students who would not otherwise be able to consider study in the UK.
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Scholarship Description
Scholarship Course Level
Scholarship is awarded for postgraduate taught programmes
Scholarship Field of Study
Ferguson scholarships are available to students applying to on campus postgraduate taught programmes including:
- MSc Cognitive Neuroscience
- MSc Drug Delivery
- MSc Pharmaceutical Sciences
- MSc Pharmacokinetics
- MSc Stem Cells & Regenerative Medicine.
If successful, you will have to contribute approximately £3,500 towards your MSc tuition fees. Please note you will be required to provide evidence to the UKBA that you have this amount plus living costs.
Scholarships value for this scholarship is £15,000
Scholarship Nationality Target
Scholarship is targeted to students from Africa and South America.
Scholarship Location of Study
Scholarship are awarded to students for a study in UK.
Scholarship Application Deadline
Ferguson scholarship Applications deadline is March 31, 2019 and announcement of awards will be in May 2019 via email.
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Scholarship Eligibility
Note: Students application may commence if the following criteria are met;
- Hold a conditional or unconditional offer for one of the above courses
- Be a national from an African or South American country
- Hold a 2:1 degree or equivalent in a relevant subject for the course you are applying for
- Be a self-funded student
- Provide a strong personal statement when submitting your course application.
Scholarship Application Procedure
How to apply
If you wish to be considered for one of these scholarships and you meet the above eligibility criteria you will need to:
- Submit an application for your chosen course via our online application form before the scholarship deadline (please see below).
- You will then be automatically considered for this scholarship, and will be notified of the outcome via email.
- Applications for this scholarship close 31 March 2019* and announcement of awards will be in May 2019 via email.
- It is possible to submit an application to study a course at Aston University after this date, however the application will not be considered for this scholarship.
- We do not accept applications via agents for this scholarship.