School of Biological Sciences South and South-East Asia Academic Excellence Masters Scholarship

The School of Biological Sciences will offer scholarships for academically-excellent applicants of postgraduate taught MSc programmes from South Asia and South-East Asia for the 2025-2026 academic session.

We are offering a limited number of scholarships, for the sum of £10,000 each to eligible applicants. These awards will be tenable for one academic year and will be:

  • Automatically deducted from your tuition fee with any remaining funds being awarded towards living costs. 

All scholarship award holders are expected to be energetic members of our postgraduate community, and will engage with opportunities to present their work to the wider student and staff body during the period covered by their award. We offer our postgraduates a range of training and development opportunities appropriate to their programme of study.


The scholarships will be awarded on the basis of academic merit to applicants who have received an offer to a postgraduate taught master’s degree programme offered by the School of Biological Sciences commencing in September 2025. 

Applicants must have, or expect to obtain, the equivalent of a UK first class honours degree at undergraduate level and be domiciled in and a national of South Asia or South-East Asia. 


The scholarship will be awarded broadly on the basis of academic merit with candidates requiring a first-class honours degree from a UK university or overseas equivalent.

Applicants of 2 year (part-time) postgraduate taught programmes may apply but must be aware that this funding is for one year only, therefore, students are advised to budget accordingly.


To apply for this scholarship, please complete an online scholarship application.

Please only apply if you have already received an offer (conditional or unconditional) and are domiciled in and a national of South Asia or South-East Asia. 

The scholarship application deadline is 23:59 GMT on 08/05/2025.

The online scholarship application form is located in EUCLID and can be accessed via MyEd our web-based information portal at https://www.myed.ed.ac.uk

Further guidance on applying for scholarships as a registered student can be found here: Applying for a scholarship through MyEd

When logging in to MyEd, you will need your University User Name and password. If you require assistance, please go to Registry Services Student Systems support and guidance. 

Frequently Asked Questions:

Scholarships System FAQs for Applicants (511.17 KB / PDF)


Successful applicants will be notified by the end of June 2025. 

Please note that in order to be awarded this scholarship, you must not be in receipt of any other scholarship offered by the University of Edinburgh or of full government or industry sponsorship to cover your tuition fees.  


This article was published on