Global Excellence Scholarship

Key information

Deadline date: 30 June 2025
Amount: £8,000 (Fee waiver)

Scholarship overview

SOAS University of London is offering the Global Excellence Scholarships to students from selected countries with excellent academic performance applying for postgraduate-taught courses.

The Global Excellence Scholarships are designed to recognise and support applicants, of selected countries, who have achieved excellence across a variety of different platforms – ranging from academia to extra-curricular activities and volunteering.

Each scholarship is valued at £8,000 and acts as a fee waiver.

Eligibility Criteria

Must hold an offer for a full-time Postgraduate Taught (on campus) programme.
Must be a passport holder of one of the following countries: Nigeria, Ghana, Mexico, Brazil, Colombia
Must be an overseas fee-paying student.
Minimum UK upper second-class (2:1) or international equivalent.
The NLUD-SOAS Joint LLM/MA in Environmental Justice in South Asia and the Shiv Nadar IoE-SOAS Joint MA Global Urban Sociology programmes are not eligible for this scholarship.

Please note, if you have applied for a 2-year Master’s, the scholarship will be eligible towards the first year of tuition fees.

How to Apply

Applicants can apply for the Global Excellence Scholarship via the online form. Please save a copy of your application form for your records. If you wish to print a copy of the application form please do so before clicking SUBMIT.

If you applied as part of the earlier rounds of the Global Excellence Scholarship and are not successful, you will automatically be considered for subsequent rounds of funding. Please do not submit more than one scholarship application.

Application deadline

The deadline for the first round of scholarships is the 30 April 2025 BST+23:59
The deadline for the second round of scholarships is the 30 June 2025 BST+ 23:59

Notification of results

Successful applicants with an offer to study at SOAS will be notified within 10 working days of each deadline.

If you are successful and allocated the Global Excellent Scholarship, you will be required to pay the CAS deposit of £4,000 as part of the conditions to accept the award. Please note that the CAS deposit is only refundable in a limited set of circumstances. It is important to be mindful of this if you are accepting the Global Excellence Scholarship with a conditional offer.