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

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 2026. 

Eligible programmes are:

• Animal Breeding and Genetics
• Biochemistry
• Bioinformatics
• Biotechnology
• Data Science for Biology
• Drug Discovery and Translational Biology
• Ecology, Evolution and Biodiversity
• Evolutionary Genetics
• Human Complex Trait Genetics
• Quantitative Genetics and Genome Analysis
• Synthetic Biology and Biotechnology

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.

Eligible applicants should complete an online scholarship application.

In order to gain access to the scholarship application system applicants must have applied for admission to the University of Edinburgh. Please note that, following the submission of an application for admission, it can take up to five working days for all system checks to be completed and access to be granted. We highly recommend you apply for the scholarship well in advance of the scholarship deadline date should you encounter any technical difficulties with your application which need resolved.

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

When logging in to MyEd, you will need your University User Name (UUN) and password. If you require assistance, please go to: http://www.ed.ac.uk/student-systems/support-guidance

Further guidance on applying for scholarships as a registered student can be found here: Applying for a scholarship | Student Systems | Student Administration

The deadline for applying for this scholarship will be 23:59 (UK Time) on Tuesday 31st March 2026.

Frequently Asked Questions:

Scholarships Systems FAQs for Applicants (152.11 KB / PDF)

Successful applicants will be notified in June 2026. 

Please direct any queries to: Biologyfuturestudents@ed.ac.uk