GREAT Scholarships - India

This is a competitive process and not all applications will be successful. A panel of senior members of staff will select the strongest applications and will be looking for the following:

• Applicant has given examples of achievements which represent excellence and initiative in educational, voluntary, or professional areas.
• Applicant has shown how these achievements relate to the course they have applied for at the University of Sheffield and connected that to their future ambitions.
• Applicant meets the profile of a GREAT Scholar.

Eligibility criteria

Applicants must be passport holders and a current resident of India.

Your programme must commence at the University of Sheffield in Autumn 2025.

You must receive an offer for a course studied in full at the University of Sheffield. Masters programmes split between the University of Sheffield and a partner institution are not eligible to apply for a scholarship.

For tuition fee purposes you must be self-funded and required to pay the overseas tuition fee.

You must not be a sponsored student.

Distance learning courses are ineligible for the GREAT scholarship.

Part-time courses are ineligible for the GREAT scholarship.

All Crossways courses and Erasmus Mundus courses are ineligible for a merit scholarship.

Integrated PhD programmes are ineligible for the GREAT scholarship

These scholarships are not applicable to any postgraduate courses which are more than one year in duration. This includes, but is not exclusive to, the following courses:

MArch Architecture

MArch Architecture and Landscape Architecture

MArch Architecture: Collaborative Practice

The University of Sheffield reserves the right to review and change scholarship provision.