NCUK Undergraduate Merit Scholarship

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 has a strong academic profile.

You must be currently studying at an NCUK Study Centre.
You must receive an offer to study a full-time undergraduate degree programme at the University of Sheffield. All undergraduate degree courses are eligible with the exceptions of Medicine (A100/A101) and Dentistry (A200).
Your degree programme must be scheduled to commence at the University of Sheffield in September 2025.
You must receive an offer for a course studied in full at the University of Sheffield.
Degree 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 eligible to pay the overseas tuition fee.
You must not be a sponsored student*.
You must enter a degree programme at the University of Sheffield in programme year 1 or year 2.
For scholarship purposes all MArch programmes are considered as postgraduate taught programmes and are not eligible for this or any other undergraduate scholarship.
The University of Sheffield reserves the right to review and change scholarship provision.