Online Learning Scholarships

The University of Edinburgh’s MSc Internal Medicine will offer 5 scholarships that will cover 66% of tuition fee costs. Scholarships are available for one year to support continuing and new students and continuing students in the 2025-2026 academic year.

The University of Edinburgh will offer a number of scholarships for online learning Masters programmes for the 2025-2026 academic year, which includes full tuition fees with contribution towards cost of internet access.

We have a number of ASiT-Edinburgh Online Surgery bursaries, each worth £1500 annually, to support ASiT members undertaking the MSc in Surgical Sciences, ChMs in General surgery, Trauma and Orthopaedics and the MSc in Patient Safety and Clinical Human Factors.

Edinburgh Surgery Online will offer a number of scholarships for the part-time online Masters programme in Primary Care Ophthalmology for the 2025-2026 academic year.

There are a number of scholarships available which includes full tuition fees with contribution towards cost of internet access.

The Polish School of Medicine Memorial Fund supports a thriving scholarship programme that enables successful Polish medical doctor/scientist applicants to undertake a period of further study or research at The University of Edinburgh Medical School and related institutions.

The online Introduction to High Performance Computing scholarship aims to support professional development in the HPC space by making this introductory course more accessible. The recipients are expected to continue their studies up to the level of postgraduate certificate or higher.

The EPCC online Dissertation Scholarships aim to support the dissertation stage of the online MSc in HPC and HPC with Data Science programmes. We hope receiving the help to cover the course fees will reduce the financial burden and help the students to fully engage with their dissertation projects.

The Commonwealth Distance Learning Scholarships are funded by the Commonwealth Scholarships Commission (CSC), dependent from the UK government's Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office.

They are aimed at candidates from low and middle-income who would like to undertake part-time, distance learning study on eligible postgraduate programmes offered at Universities in the UK.

The application window for Commonwealth Distance Learning Scholarship 2025 will be opening soon.

Please note: the information below is based on previous application cycles and is provided for orientation only until details are confirmed by the CSC.

The Anne Rowling Clinic will offer three online learning postgraduate scholarships for applicants commencing Stem Cells and Translational Neurology programmes in the academic year 2025-2026.

Gaining an Online Masters is an excellent way to earn a qualification which is equivalent to on-campus study, while at the same time continuing to work flexibly and live at home. Online postgraduate qualifications through the University of Edinburgh are fully equivalent to postgraduate degrees taught on campus.

Four scholarships are available for eligible postgraduate programmes offered by the University in the 2025-2026 academic session.

Each of these scholarships will support applicants who are from countries most impacted by climate change, for entry in 2024-2025 to the online Postgraduate Certificate Programme in Circular Economy at the Edinburgh Futures Institute (EFI).

The Garden scholarship is open to PgCert Surgical Writing and Evidence Based Practice students or applicants who are nationals of, and residents of, countries defined as Low and Middle Income Countries.