Up to £36,000 Manchester Global Futures Scholarship

The University of Manchester is offering more than 350 merit-based Global Futures Scholarships, worth over £6 million in total, to international students starting an undergraduate or master's degree in Manchester in September 2027. Undergraduates can receive £12,000 a year for three years and master's students £12,000 or £19,000, taken off tuition fees. There is no open call: you apply to Manchester first, and the scholarship form is emailed to eligible offer-holders living in 23 countries, with amounts and closing dates set region by region.

What you get:

• Undergraduate: £12,000 a year for up to three years (up to £36,000), as a discount on international tuition fees, renewed each year on an average of at least 60 percent
• Master's: £19,000 off tuition for students from the eligible African countries, and £12,000 off tuition for every other eligible region
• Undergraduate awardees act as Global Futures Scholars, helping the international recruitment team for typically no more than 8 hours a semester

Key dates:

• Master's applications for 2027/28 open 10 October 2026; undergraduate applications go through UCAS
• Scholarship forms are emailed to eligible offer-holders from December 2026
• Undergraduate, Africa (Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Mauritius, Nigeria, South Africa, Zimbabwe): round one closes 25 February 2027 for students with 2026 exam results; round two closes 8 April 2027
• Undergraduate, Canada and United States: 4 March 2027
• Undergraduate, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka: 30 March 2027
• Undergraduate, Türkiye: 6 April 2027
• Undergraduate, Egypt: 13 April 2027
• Undergraduate, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam: 23 April 2027
• Undergraduate, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates: 20 May 2027
• Master's, Canada and United States: 11 March 2027
• Master's, Africa: 20 April 2027, with an unconditional offer by the same date
• Master's, Türkiye: 22 April 2027
• Master's, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka: 25 April 2027
• Master's, Taiwan: 27 April 2027
• Master's, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam: 14 May 2027
• Master's, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates: 6 June 2027

More information:

• Each country's amounts, qualifications and deadlines are on its own scholarships page, linked from the Global Futures Scholarship page
• Full terms and conditions for each region are published as PDFs on those country pages

• Domiciled in one of the 23 listed countries, meaning you have predominantly lived there for the last three years; nationality does not matter
• Classed as an international student for tuition fees, and self-funded rather than fully sponsored
• An offer for a full-time, on-campus course at Manchester starting in September 2027 (undergraduate via UCAS, master's via Manchester's own application)
• Undergraduate: direct first-year entry, working towards a qualification listed for your region (for example A levels, IB, Indian Standard XII, AP, South African NSC or IEB)
• Undergraduate, Africa: minimum grades of AAA at A level or 36 IB points, or the NCUK, Bridge House or NSC/IEB equivalents in the terms
• Undergraduate: you must make Manchester your Firm UCAS choice by your region's date
• Not eligible: Medicine, Dentistry, Architecture, courses with an integrated foundation year, blended and distance learning, and (for undergraduates) anyone who has studied in the UK before
• Master's: MBA, MPhil, architecture degrees, PGCE and clinical degrees are excluded; African master's applicants must hold a bachelor's degree from Africa