Study in Ireland: University College Dublin (UCD) Global Excellence Undergraduate & Masters Scholarships 2024/2025 for African Students

The Scholarship Program is funded by UCD International and aims to attract excellent candidates to the UCD’s undergraduate/graduate programs and encourage early application.

Application Deadline: 31st March, 2024

Offered annually? Yes

Eligible Countries: African countries (The following countries are not considered for the African Global Excellence Scholarship but will instead be consider for the Middle East and North Africa Global Excellence Scholarship:
• Algeria
• Egypt
• Libya
• Morocco
• Tunisia
• Sudan

To be taken at (country): Ireland

Eligible Field of Study: Scholarship awards are applicable to full time Masters programmes, this is excluding all clinical programmes and Masters programmes in the Smurfit School of Business, joint masters programmes, online programmes and the MSc in Digital Investigation & Forensic Computing;

Type: Undergraduate, Masters

Eligibility: Applicants must be African, current residents of an African country, and classified as non-EU for tuition fee and application purposes;

• Open to all successful applicants to eligible full time, taught programmes who are citizens of and resident in Africa.
• Eligible programmes are limited to those that are undergraduate and graduate taught programmes, where the student must be based in Dublin and no part of the programme is awarded by another institution. All Clinical Programmes are ineligible for the Global
  Excellence Scholarship. A full list of eligible programmes is provided in Eligible Programmes.
• Applicants must be self-funding and classified as non-EU for tuition fee and application purposes;
• This is a highly competitive scholarship, and as such successful applicants are likely to have obtained a first class honours degree (For Masters).
• Scholarships are renewable annually subject to the student maintaining an annual grade point average of no less than 3.08/4.2 (upper second class)
• In order to be eligible to apply for this advertised scholarship, applicants must have ‘Offer’, ‘Conditional Offer’, ‘Accept’ or ‘Conditional Accept’ status associated with their application;

Selection Criteria: Successful candidates will be selected on merit paired with a holistic review of their scholarship application

Number of Awardees: Not specified

Value of Scholarship:

• 100% Global Excellence Tuition Fee Scholarship
• 50% Global Excellence Tuition Fee Scholarship

How to Apply: In order to be eligible to apply for this advertised scholarship, applicants must have ‘Offer’, ‘Conditional Offer’, ‘Accept’ or ‘Conditional Accept’ status associated with their application;

Visit Scholarship Webpage for details

Award Provider: University College Dublin (UCD)