The Keele Graduate Scholarship

The award 

An award of £3,000 for UK students taking a taught postgraduate course at Keele University who attained a first class honours in their first degree. 

Eligibility 

• You must be liable to pay UK tuition fees for postgraduate study at Keele University.
• You must have graduated with a first-class honours undergraduate degree (Bachelors or Integrated Master's) from a UK university. If you have graduated from a university outside the UK, we will require a copy of your degree certificate and may ask that you provide evidence that your classification is equivalent to a first-class honours degree obtained in the UK.
• You must have been resident in the UK for at least three years prior to embarking on postgraduate study. You must not have been resident purely for the purpose of receiving education.
• For the purposes of assessing your eligibility for this award, we will only consider the classification obtained in your first degree. Performance in postgraduate and graduate study or second undergraduate degrees will not be considered. Similarly, we will not consider performance in academic study that is considered to be at a lower level than a degree, or equivalent experience.
• You must be registered on, and attending, a taught postgraduate course that equates to at least one year’s full-time study at postgraduate level and leads to a named award of at least Postgraduate Diploma level at Keele University. This means, for example, that students who attain, or are registered on, a Postgraduate Certificate course, will not receive an award. 
• Only one fee discount of £3,000 can be made for study towards one postgraduate award. For example, students registered for an MA will receive one scholarship for study leading to the MA, even in the event of there being a gap between study leading to a PG Diploma in that subject and study leading to the award of the MA.
• Students who take the MA in Social Work, and are not in receipt of external funding, or receive partial tuition fee funding from the NHSBSA, may be eligible to receive the Keele Graduate Scholarship on the proportion of the fee they pay as an individual. Social Work students in receipt of a fully funded place are not eligible to receive the Keele Graduate Scholarship.
• If you are studying on a modular basis, the scholarship will be deducted from your modules pro rata only after you have successfully completed four modules. The discount will then only be applied to subsequent modules.
• The Scholarship is for students who will be based at Keele University and start their studies in September 2024, or January 2025 (excluding full-time MBA). The award cannot be used for any other year of entry.  
• For full-time MBA students, the scholarship is applicable to the May 2025 intake only. The award cannot be used for any other year of entry.  

Exceptions

• You must not be taking a course that is partially or fully funded by the Teaching Agency, the NHS or any other organisation/employer. Should you be awarded funding during your study, the award will be cancelled. The Student Finance Postgraduate Loan does not affect your eligibility for this award.
• Students taking a PGCE course or the Full Time MBA course (in September or January) are not eligible to receive the Keele Graduate Scholarship.
• Students registered for a PhD or an MPhil are not eligible to receive an award.
• The scholarship is not available for students studying fully online courses delivered by Keele.

Further information and how to apply 

Your application will be assessed automatically when you apply so there is no need to provide a separate application for this scholarship. Where possible, assessments for eligibility will be completed by the end of your first semester, and students who are eligible to receive the award, will be sent an award confirmation email to their Keele student email account.  

Qualifying recipients of the scholarship will receive the award in the form of a tuition fee discount. No cash alternative is available, and the award cannot be used in place of any required deposit.

Please note that this award can be combined with the Keele Alumni Discount and the Keele Care Leavers' and Estranged Students Bursary (if eligible) however the 20% Alumni Discount will be applied after the other awards listed above have been applied.

Further terms and conditions apply, please see our Terms and Conditions for full details.