International Postgraduate Scholarship 2027 (mainland China)

Scholarship overview

• Value: £3,000 tuition fee reduction.
• Allocation: Automatic (no application required).
• Deposit deadline of 5pm (UK time) on Monday 22 March 2027: for both unconditional and conditional offer holders.

Eligibility

• You must commence your studies of a postgraduate taught degree at the University of Sheffield in September 2027.
• The scholarship is available to all postgraduate taught offer holders from mainland China. To be eligible, you must either be a permanent resident of China or have lived in China for the last three years.
• All courses are eligible, with the exception of those listed below.
• You must have a) accepted your conditional or unconditional offer of a place and b) paid your postgraduate taught deposit of £2,000 by the deadline of 5pm (UK time) on Monday 22 March 2027.

How to pay your tuition fee deposit.

To pay your tuition fee deposit via our online payment system please use the link below. Please note that you will need to have accepted your offer to pay.

Pay your tuition fee deposit

Further information

• The scholarship cannot be awarded in conjunction with any funding (full or partial) from an external sponsor**, excluding a loan, which has to be paid back in full. If you are receiving a loan (which has to be paid back in full) from an organisation to which we offer a discount, you are not able to combine this scholarship with the discount - the most valuable award will take precedence.
• The scholarship cannot be awarded in conjunction with any other scholarship or discount offered by the University unless explicitly stated.
• The scholarship will be awarded automatically if you accept your offer to study at the University of Sheffield and pay your deposit of £2,000 by 5pm on Monday 22 March 2027.
• You must accept both your PGT offer and your pre-sessional English course offer if you are studying both. 
• If you have paid your deposit and accepted your offer by the deadline, and then change your acceptance to a different programme after the deadline, you will still be eligible for the scholarship. 
• Postgraduate Diploma (PGDip) and Postgraduate Certificate (PGCert) courses are ineligible for the International Postgraduate Taught Scholarship 2027.
• You must be self-funded and classified as overseas for tuition fee purposes.
• You must study a course in full at the University of Sheffield. Masters programmes split between the University of Sheffield and a partner institution are not eligible for a scholarship.
• All Crossways courses and Erasmus Mundus courses are ineligible for an automatic scholarship.
• The scholarship is for full-time students only. Students studying online or via distance learning are not eligible for the scholarship.
• This scholarship is available to students from the University of Sheffield International College (USIC).
• These scholarships are not applicable to any postgraduate courses where the higher clinical fee is applicable.
• If you are studying a 2-year masters programme the scholarship will be available in the second year of your studies subject to successful completion of year 1.
• The scholarship is not applicable to any years in industry or study abroad years that are compulsory or optional elements of your course.
• This scholarship cannot be deferred to a future year of entry. If you decide to defer entry to another year you forfeit this award.
• For scholarship purposes all MArch programmes are considered as postgraduate taught programmes so are eligible for this scholarship.
• It is your responsibility to ensure you receive any funding you are eligible for. Funding cannot be backdated to previous years regardless of eligibility. 

* A sponsored student is defined as being an individual in receipt of a total sum of funds from either the University or an external organisation** that matches or exceeds the original tuition fee required by the University.

** Government or governmental organisation – international, national or regional; research council; charity; private enterprise; or any similar organisation.