UCD Global Excellence Scholarships for International Students 2024: (Deadline 31 March, 2024)

University College Dublin (UCD) in Ireland is one of the world’s top universities and is the most popular university for international students in Ireland. Each year, UCD offers a number of Global Excellence Scholarship to international students (on non-EU fees) who are starting a course at UCD in September.

To apply for the Global Excellence Scholarship, students must first have received an offer (or conditional offer) to study in an eligible UCD course.

About University College Dublin

A leading European research-intensive university, UCD is the largest university in Ireland. With a history stretching back to 1854 and an impressive list of notable alumni, including the writer James Joyce and many current and former government ministers, we can rightly claim to have been a formative influence and an integral part of the Irish State since its foundation. In recent years UCD has established itself as Ireland’s Global University, with operations around the world, and more than 5000 international students attending our Dublin campus coming from 124 different countries. T…

Global Excellence Scholarships

Aim and Benefits of Global Excellence Scholarships

• 100% Global Excellence Tuition Fee Scholarship
• 50% Global Excellence Tuition Fee Scholarship

Requirements for Global Excellence Scholarships Qualification

Applicants must be African, current residents of an African country, and classified as non-EU for tuition fee and application purposes;

• Open to all successful applicants to eligible full time, taught programmes who are citizens of and resident in Africa.
• Eligible programmes are limited to those that are undergraduate and graduate taught programmes, where the student must be based in Dublin and no part of the programme is awarded by another institution. All Clinical Programmes are ineligible for the Global
  Excellence Scholarship. A full list of eligible programmes is provided in Eligible Programmes.
• Applicants must be self-funding and classified as non-EU for tuition fee and application purposes;
• This is a highly competitive scholarship, and as such successful applicants are likely to have obtained a first class honours degree (For Masters).
• Scholarships are renewable annually subject to the student maintaining an annual grade point average of no less than 3.08/4.2 (upper second class)
• In order to be eligible to apply for this advertised scholarship, applicants must have ‘Offer’, ‘Conditional Offer’, ‘Accept’ or ‘Conditional Accept’ status associated with their application;

Interview date, Process and Venue for Global Excellence Scholarships

Selection Criteria: 

Successful candidates will be selected on merit paired with a holistic review of their scholarship application

Application Deadline

31 March, 2024

How to Apply

In order to be eligible to apply for this advertised scholarship, applicants must have ‘Offer’, ‘Conditional Offer’, ‘Accept’ or ‘Conditional Accept’ status associated with their application;

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