Scholarships at University of Essex

If you're an international student studying at one of our global channel partners and are self-funding your undergraduate studies, you could be eligible for a scholarship worth up to £3,000, which you'll receive as a tuition fee discount distributed across your years of study.

Eligibility

• These scholarships are restricted to students who are overseas fee payers and are entirely self-funded.   

• Only those applicants put forward by one of our Global Channel Partners listed in the terms and conditions below will be considered for this award (excluding applicants on the UKT Law programmes for which we have a separate scholarship).

• Applicants must meet our standard conditional offer (not including any flexible offer level, see exceptions to this below).

• Applicants must actively make Essex their firm choice by 15 July 2022. Applicants that become firm with Essex through rejection by their original firm choice selection.

• GDUFS students are only eligible for the award if they achieve 85% or above in link agreement programme/s. 

• Shanghai University students are only eligible for the award if achieve 75% or above in link agreement programme/s.

• ZISU students are only eligible for the award if achieve 80% or above in link agreement programme/s.

• CSCSE students are only eligible for the award with A in one graded component for 3+1 SQA entry in link agreement programme/s, elsewhere are not eligible.

• Students must be starting their first year of undergraduate study at Essex in 2022-23. 

• Only one scholarship award can be made per student and the award cannot be held in conjunction with any other University of Essex scholarships.

• Successful applicants should be available for promotional activities 

Students receiving a repayable loan to fund their studies will be considered as self-funded.  

Students who aren't eligible

The following students are NOT eligible for this scholarship regardless of meeting the above criteria: 

• Current students are not eligible for this award. 

• Students who are classified as a Home fee paying student.

• Students who are fully or partly sponsored. 

• Students undertaking a degree that is normally delivered wholly online

• Students placed through the UCAS or Direct Application Clearing process are not eligible for this award.

• This scholarship award does not apply to deferred entry. Where a scholarship has been awarded to a student who subsequently defers entry to the following academic year, the award will be withdrawn and the applicant will be considered again in line with the terms and conditions that apply in the new proposed year of entry.