The University of Edinburgh has a strong history of global partnership, community, and exchange. We uphold a tradition of celebrating diversity and embracing international students, who enrich the student body and the extraordinary educational experience we offer.
The Scholarship Award
The University is offering an international scholarship for the most academically gifted Postgraduate Taught (PGT) Masters students applying from India. These awards, which cover £5,000 towards tuition fees for PGT Masters students studying on campus during the 2025/26 academic year, will be tenable for the first year of study only.
Eligibility Criteria
The India Merit Scholarship will be awarded to any successful applicant who:
Firmly accepts an unconditional offer to join any of the University’s full-time, on-campus PGT Masters programmes. If you are required to pay a programme deposit for your Masters programme, and you do not accept and pay the required deposit within the given time frame, then you will forfeit your scholarship offer as well as your programme offer.
Is domiciled in India at the time of application.
Is either fully or partially self-funded.
Has achieved an undergraduate degree studied and awarded in India at the minimum level outlined in Tables 1 and 2 below. This excludes graduates with dentistry, medicine and veterinary medicine degrees awarded in India, who will all be eligible for the Scholarship. Please note that eligibility criteria will be assessed solely on your primary grading scale. Where a GPA is provided, students will be assessed by the GPA as the primary grade, even when a percentage is also provided.
Table 1: Awarding minimum for University of Edinburgh programmes, excluding those Edinburgh University Business School programme
Grading scale
Award minimum
UoE India Universities list*
4-point GPA
3.6
3.2
7-point CGPA
6.3
5.6
8-point CGPA
7.1
6.4
10-point CGPA
9.0
8.0
100% scale
80%
70%
2000 scale
1800
1600
5590 scale
5010
4500
Table 2: Awarding minimum for the following programmes in the Edinburgh University Business School: Full-time MBA; MSc Accounting & Financial Management; MSc Banking Innovation & Risk Analytics; MSc Business Analytics; MSc Climate Change Finance & Investment; MSc Entrepreneurship & Innovation; MSc Finance & Investment; MSc Finance, Technology & Policy; MSc Global Strategy & Sustainability; MSc Human Resource Management; MSc International Human Resource Management; MSc Management; MSc Marketing
Grading scale
Award minimum
UoE India Universities list*
4-point GPA
3.8
3.4
7-point CGPA
6.6
5.9
8-point CGPA
7.5
6.7
10-point CGPA
9.5
8.5
100% scale
90%
80%
2000 scale
1890
1680
5590 scale
5260
4725
You will not be eligible for this scholarship if:
You are fully sponsored by your employer.
You are already in receipt of a full scholarship or are awarded one at a later date.
You have already accepted any other University of Edinburgh scholarship.
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