Accommodation Award - Postgraduate Research
2025 entry
For entrant Postgraduate Research applicants, £1,750 to help with the cost of accommodation while studying in St Andrews. Selection is based on financial need.
- Application period
- Monday 21 October 2024 to Wednesday 23 April 2025
- Open to
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Full time,
Part time - daytime
Postgraduate research students
- Applicants with fee status
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Scotland home,
Rest of UK,
Overseas
AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership studentships
2025 entry
The AHRC-funded studentship competition opens each autumn for students starting the following September providing a personal and professional development programme to complement the postgraduate training already being undertaken at St Andrews.
- Open to
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Full time,
Part time - daytime
Postgraduate research students
- Applicants with fee status
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Scotland home,
Rest of UK,
Overseas
Aziz Foundation Masters Scholarship
2025 entry
For British Muslims applying for postgraduate Masters courses.
- Application period
- Monday 13 January 2025 to Friday 4 April 2025
- Open to
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Full time
Postgraduate taught students
- Applicants with fee status
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Scotland home,
Rest of UK
Beit Trust
2025 entry
For students who are nationals of and domiciled in Malawi, Zambia or Zimbabwe, taking a postgraduate Masters course in Computer Science.
- Application period
- Monday 23 September 2024 to Friday 7 February 2025
- Open to
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Full time
Postgraduate taught students
- Applicants with fee status
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Overseas
Bell Burnell Graduate Scholarship
2025 entry
For full or part-time graduates wishing to study towards a doctorate in physics and from groups that are currently under-represented in physics.
- Application period
- Tuesday 1 October 2024 to Monday 20 January 2025
- Open to
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Full time,
Part time - evening,
Part time - daytime
Postgraduate research students
- Applicants with fee status
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Scotland home,
Rest of UK,
Overseas
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council Studentship
2025 entry
Doctoral Training Grants (DTG) for students in Biology and linked subject areas such as Psychology, Chemistry or Physics.
- Open to
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Full time,
Part time - daytime
Postgraduate research students
- Applicants with fee status
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Scotland home,
Rest of UK,
Overseas
Commonwealth Shared Scholarships (CSS)
2025 entry
For students from eligible low- and middle-income Commonwealth countries and territories, who have not studied for a year or more in a high-income country before, and are accepted to study an eligible full-time postgraduate Masters programme.
- Application period
- Wednesday 13 November 2024 to Thursday 12 December 2024
- Open to
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Full time
Postgraduate taught students
- Applicants with fee status
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Overseas
Economic and Social Research Council Studentship Funding (ESRC)
2025 entry
The University of St Andrews is able to offer full- and part-funded ESRC scholarships across a range of social science disciplines for postgraduate study.
- Open to
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Full time,
Part time - daytime
Postgraduate research students
- Applicants with fee status
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Scotland home,
Rest of UK,
Overseas
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Studentship Funding
2025 entry
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) fund research and training in engineering and the physical sciences. EPSRC Studentship Funding pays full fees and stipends at the UKRI rate for students that meet the eligibility criteria
- Open to
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Full time,
Part time - daytime
Postgraduate research students
- Applicants with fee status
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Scotland home,
Rest of UK,
Overseas
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Studentship Funding
2025 entry
EPSRC pay full fees and stipends at the UKRI rate for students in Chemistry, Computer Science, Mathematics and Statistics, and Physics and Astronomy who meet the eligibility criteria.
- Open to
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Full time,
Part time - daytime
Postgraduate research students
- Applicants with fee status
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Scotland home,
Rest of UK,
Overseas
EPSRC AI skills fund - Data Science online (January 2026 entry only)
2025 entry
UKRI and EPSRC are offering five £6,000 tuition fee scholarships for January 2026 Data Science online applicants to support AI and data skills.
- Application period
- Wednesday 15 October 2025 to Thursday 18 December 2025
- Open to
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Online
Postgraduate taught students
- Applicants with fee status
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Scotland home,
Rest of UK
IAPETUS Doctoral Training Partnership (NERC)
2025 entry
IAPETUS is a multidisciplinary Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP), funded and accredited by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), offering PhD students a world-class environment in which to study.
- Open to
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Full time,
Part time - daytime
Postgraduate research students
- Applicants with fee status
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Scotland home,
Rest of UK,
Overseas
Inlaks Scholarships
2025 entry
For Indian citizens expected to hold a first class undergraduate degree or equivalent from a recognised university/institution in India.
- Open to
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Postgraduate taught students,
Postgraduate research students
- Applicants with fee status
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Overseas
Leverhulme Trust Research Project Grant
2025 entry
The School of Social Anthropology offers a fully funded PhD research project grant to support an exceptional student undertaking doctoral research in the following project: Times of Polycrisis in the UK and Europe (TOP).
- Application period
- Tuesday 1 April 2025 to Tuesday 15 April 2025
- Open to
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Full time
Postgraduate research students
- Applicants with fee status
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Scotland home,
Rest of UK,
Overseas
Lorna Walker UHStAGA Scholarship
2025 entry
To pay accommodation fees for a one-year postgraduate Masters student living in University Hall. Preference will be given to students from a developing country.
- Application period
- Tuesday 1 October 2024 to Wednesday 5 February 2025
- Open to
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Full time
Postgraduate taught students,
Postgraduate research students
- Applicants with fee status
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Overseas
Masters funding in Digital Health and Care
2025 entry
Grants of £10,000 are available for postgraduate students starting their course in the 2025-2026 academic year.
- Open to
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Full time,
Part time - daytime
Postgraduate taught students
- Applicants with fee status
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Scotland home,
Rest of UK,
Overseas