NTU International Scholarships
Our scholarships range from £2,000 up to 50% off your tuition fees. They are applied as tuition fee reductions once you enrol on your course at NTU.
These are awarded to Bachelors and Masters students who can demonstrate excellent academic achievement and the potential to contribute to the University community.
Last year we awarded over 1,300 scholarships to students from more than 80 countries.
Discover all of our scholarships for September 2026 entry.
Our NTU Excellence Scholarships are competitive and will be awarded based on the strength of your application.
You could get 50% or 25% off your first-year fee. Undergraduate students will also get £3,000 off each subsequent year of your course.
Undergraduate (Bachelors)
- 50% scholarship - Depending on the fee for your course, you would get a scholarship worth up to £15,350 over the whole course. A significant saving meaning you will only pay between £8,975 and £9,350 for the first year of your course.
- 25% scholarship – Depending on the fee for your course, you would get a scholarship worth up to £10,675 over the whole course. This means you will only pay between £13,463 and £14,025 for the first year of your course.
Postgraduate (Masters)
- 50% scholarship – Depending on the fee for your course you would get between £9,150 and £12,500 off your first-year fee. A significant saving meaning you will only pay between £9,150 and £12,500 for your course.
- 25% scholarship – Depending on the fee for your course you would get between £4,525 and £6,250 off your first-year fee. This means you will only pay between £13,725 and £18,750 for your course.
We have a range of country and school scholarships available to Undergraduate (Bachelors) and Postgraduate (Masters) students. These scholarship are competitive and will be awarded based on the strength of your application.
Undergraduate (Bachelors)
- Korea Scholarship: £5,000 for the first year of study.
- Sri Lanka Scholarship: £4,000 for each year of study, excluding any placement years.
- Taiwan Scholarship: £5,000 for the first year of study.
- Taiwan STEM Scholarship: 50% of tuition fee for the first year of study.
- USA Excellence Scholarship: 25% or 50% of tuition fee, plus £3,000 for each subsequent year of your course excluding any placement years.
Postgraduate (Masters)
- Ghana Law School Scholarship: 50% of tuition fee
- LLM Scholarships (Vietnam, South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa): 50% of tuition fee
- Postgraduate Scholarships for Egypt, Indonesia, Jordan, Latin America and Caribbean, Malaysia, Philippines, Serbia, Turkey: £4,000
- Postgraduate Scholarship for Europe, Korea, Pakistan, Vietnam. Taiwan: £5,000
- Taiwan STEM Scholarship: 50% of tuition fee
- Women in Computer Science: 50% of tuition fee
Our Merit-based Awards reward high achieving students. If you think you meet the criteria, claim your award.
Fill in your personal details and tick the box stating you wish to be considered for the Merit-based Awards.
If you want to be considered for a higher value award, complete the whole application form, including the essay.
Please check individual country pages for criteria as these vary.
Undergraduate (Bachelors)
- Canada Law High Achievers Award: £3,000
- China Star Scholarship: £3,000 for the first year of study
Postgraduate (Masters)
- Bangladesh High Achievers Award: £3,000
- China Star Scholarship: £3,000
- India Prestigious University Award: Up to £4,000
- Sri Lanka High Achievers Award: £3,000
- Sub-Saharan Africa High Achievers Award: £3,000
- Thailand High Achievers Award: £4,000
All Undergraduate (Bachelors) and Postgraduate (Masters) students can apply for the below scholarships:
Undergraduate (Bachelors)
- Undergraduate Executive Dean's Scholarship: £5,000
- NTU International Merit Scholarships: £3,000
- NTU International Scholarships: £2,000
Postgraduate (Masters)
- NTU International Merit Scholarships: £3,000
- NTU International Scholarships: £2,000
Sibling Loyalty Reward
- 20% discount on tuition fees
To be considered for the Sibling Loyalty Reward, you must email international@ntu.ac.uk with copies of your and your sibling’s birth certificates and both of your NTU ID numbers.
There may be external scholarships and loans you can apply for. As these are external to NTU, we encourage you to find more details on their individual websites. You cannot apply for any of these scholarships through the NTU application form.
Please note we cannot waive your advance payment when you apply for any of these external scholarships or loans.
If your only remaining condition of your offer is the advance payment, you can request an academic unconditional offer letter. This will be accepted by the awarding body as an unconditional offer letter for your scholarship application.
Please email international@ntu.ac.uk to request an offer letter.
Chevening Scholarships
Chevening is the UK government’s global leadership programme, offering fully-funded scholarships and fellowships to study a one-year taught master's degree at a UK institution. To find out more and to see if you're eligible, please click below.
Find out more about Chevening Scholarships
Commonwealth Masters Scholarships
Commonwealth Masters Scholarships are for candidates from eligible Commonwealth countries to undertake full-time taught Master’s study at a UK university. To find out more and to see if you're eligible, please click below.
Find out more about Commonwealth Master's Scholarships
Entente Cordiale Scholarships
The British Council in France have announced a number of scholarships for French students to study in the UK. The Entente Cordiale scholarships are aimed at those wanting to undertake law or environmental studies in the UK.
International Scholarships Podcast
NTU Law student Awura Djang talks about how to apply and shares some top tips for a successful scholarship application. She also shares how winning a scholarship has made a difference to her whole NTU experience.
How to apply
To apply, you must have an offer to study at NTU in September 2026.
You only need to submit one application form and you will be considered for all the scholarships and awards you are eligible for.
- Wednesday 28 January 2026 (16:00 GMT)
- Wednesday 25 February 2026 (16:00 GMT)
- Wednesday 25 March 2026 (16:00 GMT)
- Wednesday 22 April 2026 (16:00 GMT)
- Wednesday 27 May 2026 (16:00 GMT)
- Wednesday 24 June 2026, 16:00 GMT - Final deadline
If you are currently studying at NTU, you are not eligible to apply. You may like to visit our managing your money webpage for some helpful advice.
To be eligible for an NTU International Scholarship award, you must:
- Have an offer of a place on an eligible course at Nottingham Trent University.
- Be classed as an overseas student for tuition fee purposes (‘international student’). Please visit ntu.ac.uk/scholarships for information on scholarships for UK students.
- Be due to enrol on the first year of a new course of study (or year 2 or 3 of an undergraduate course in the case of advanced entry) in January 2026 or September 2026. International students enrolled before September 2026 and due to progress onto the second, third or fourth year of their course of study in September 2026, or repeating the first year of study, are not eligible to apply.
Terms and Conditions for International Scholarships
- Nottingham Trent International College (NTIC) progression students are not eligible to apply for an NTU International Scholarship award.
- International students who receive sponsorship (your tuition fees are being paid by an employer, government, or funding body in full or in part) are not eligible to apply for an International Scholarship.
- If you are studying at an institution that has a partnership agreement with NTU you are eligible for either an NTU International Scholarship award (if your scholarship application is successful) or the Partner Progression Discount (the higher amount would be deducted from your tuition fees).
- If you are awarded a Scholarship by an external body, you can only be awarded an NTU International Scholarship award if the total combined amount of both awards is not higher than 50% of your first year’s tuition fees. Please check the Terms and Conditions of the external award to make sure any award from NTU would not impact your external award.
- Applicants may only apply for an NTU International Scholarship award once per academic year per offer of a place on a qualifying course.
- Applications received after 16:00 GMT (4 pm) on each deadline will automatically be considered for the next available deadline. For example, application forms submitted after the first deadline and before the second deadline, will be considered for the second deadline.
- Applications received after the final deadline will not be considered.
- This application form is for eligible undergraduate and postgraduate taught courses only. Please do not use this form to apply for research funding.
- If you are awarded any other scholarship, bursary and / or tuition fee reduction from NTU you will only be eligible for the higher award (except for candidates who are awarded a Sport Scholarship or if you are eligible for the Alumni discount and the combined awards are not higher than 50% of your first year’s tuition fees).
- If you receive an award for each year of study, the award will be deducted from your tuition fee at the start of each year. You must successfully complete each year of the course to continue to receive this. Scholarships are not applied when a placement year is undertaken but will resume for your final year of study.
- NTU Scholarship awards can be transferred between courses within the same academic School and academic year. In the case of a 50% Excellence award your scholarship would be reviewed by the course team for your new course. Scholarships cannot be transferred to a different academic School or academic year.
- Applicants will be informed whether they have (or have not) been awarded an NTU International Scholarship award (and of the value of the scholarship award if they have been awarded) within five weeks of the application deadline.
- The scholarship will be applied to your tuition fee when you accept your scholarship offer, accept and meet the conditions of your course offer and you are eligible to enrol on your course.
- Scholarships are competitive and selection is based on the information provided on the scholarship application form. It is particularly important that you give your scholarship statement careful thought and preparation, and that you refer to the criteria provided.
- If applying for the High Achievers Award, you must be able to provide a graded transcript in order to evidence that you meet the criteria of the High Achievers award.
- If your scholarship application is successful and you enrol at NTU, we may ask you to become a student ambassador, or to appear in online and / or printed marketing materials for NTU. For example, providing a student profile and a photograph which may be used to promote NTU and NTU’s scholarship schemes and courses. Your name and course may be printed in any Scholarships Awards event materials. If you do not wish us to use your data in this manner, please notify us by email at international@ntu.ac.uk.
- If you fail to complete your course and choose to retake the course or undertake another eligible course, any scholarship you were originally awarded will not be applicable.
- If you fail to complete your course and the scholarship was not applied (i.e., you did not pay the tuition fees, or the tuition fees were reimbursed) and you choose to retake the course or undertake another eligible course you may re-apply for a scholarship provided you still meet the eligibility criteria. Consideration of any new scholarship application will be in accordance with the stated criteria and there is no guarantee that the application will be successful.
- If you withdraw from your course while owing a proportion of your tuition fees to NTU, application of the scholarship shall be at the discretion of NTU, and the scholarship may be withdrawn.
- Eligible postgraduate Masters courses are Master level awards (full-time and part-time only). Excluded courses: LLM BTC, LLM LPC (full-time, part-time, distance learning), LLM (distance learning), MSc Human Resource Management (part-time), MA Social Work, MA Advanced Social Work Practice, MSc Biomedical Science (flexible learning), SQE courses, all PGCE courses. See our scholarships for Professional Law courses. If any queries please contact ntu.scholarships@ntu.ac.uk to confirm whether your course is eligible for the scheme. NTU reserve the right to exclude other courses at their discretion.
- NTU may close International Scholarship award applications to individual courses at any time.
- We cannot accept scholarship applications including AI generated content. The application form must be completed by individuals using your own words.
- NTU’s decision in all matters relating to the scholarship is final.
Additional Terms and Conditions for Sibling Loyalty Reward
- To be considered for this reward, you must email international@ntu.ac.uk with copies of your and your sibling’s birth certificates and both of your NTU ID numbers.
- There must be at least one shared parent between siblings to be eligible.
- The reward is given for your first year of study only.
- The reward does not apply to a sibling currently studying at NTU unless they are also in their first year of study.
- Deadline for claiming this reward for September 2026 entry is 31 August 2026. For January 2027 entry the deadline is 18 December 2026.
Additional Terms and Conditions for GREAT Scholarships
- Scholarships will be open only to target country passport holders and residents, and in respect of China, mainland passport holders and residents only.
- The scholarship can only be used towards tuition fees.
- The scholarship is only eligible for one year full time postgraduate courses.
- UK HEIs should award the scholarships by 30 June 2026. Application deadlines may vary for individual institutions.
- The Study UK team must be informed of any other scholarships awarded to a GREAT scholar in the same academic year.
Additional Terms and Conditions for NTU & NTIC Impact Scholarships – Women in STEM and The Sustainability Scholarship
- To be eligible for an NTU & NTIC Impact Scholarship, you must have an offer of a place on an eligible NTU undergraduate course with progression from Nottingham Trent International College (NTIC) and be classed as an overseas student for tuition fee purposes (‘international student’).
- Eligible undergraduate courses include all courses in Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths or which are a sustainability-related degree, and which are eligible for progression from courses at NTIC. Excluded courses include postgraduate courses, SQE preparation courses, PGDL, LPC, BTC, distance learning and exchange students.
- Please submit your application through NTIC/Kaplan and agree to the terms and conditions when you apply. You can apply on the NTIC Kaplan website Impact Scholarships.
- You are only eligible for this scholarship if you are due to enrol on the first year of a course (or year 2 of an undergraduate course in the case of advanced entry) in September 2026 or beyond having progressed from NTIC. If you have already commenced your NTIC pathway programme or degree at NTU you cannot apply for these scholarships.
- This scholarship can be combined with the NTIC/NTU Early Payment Discount. If you pay at least £1,000 towards your NTU fees before the stated deadline we will automatically deduct £500 from your first year tuition fee only – please refer to the terms and conditions of this fee discount. This scholarship can also be combined with the Outstanding Achievement Award which is a yearly payment to the student of £1000 per year, except for placement year, for those students who achieve 70% or above in their NTIC subject.
- If you are awarded the scholarship this will be for the first year of your undergraduate study.
- If you transfer to a different NTU course before progressing from NTIC to NTU the scholarship will be transferable if the course is eligible within this scheme.
- Applicants will be informed whether they have (or have not) been awarded a scholarship by NTIC/Kaplan. Kaplan will notify scholarship applicants of the outcome of their application by email within 4 weeks of the scholarship application deadline. The NTU part of the award is a fee reduction which will be applied to the NTU tuition fee when an applicant meets the conditions of their offer and enrols on the NTU degree course.
- To be awarded this scholarship when you progress to NTU, you must achieve a 70% overall grade or above at NTIC.
Scholarship Application Advice
Our scholarships are competitive so it is important to make yourself stand out from the crowd. Here are some of our top tips for completing your application:
- Spend good time on the application – you only have 500 words so make sure you use them wisely.
- Express your interests and your achievements - we want to know all about you and your goals for the future. We aren't looking for perfect grades, we just want to hear your authentic voice.
- Believe in yourself – you are good enough to apply so why not give it a go.
You may be tempted to use AI tools for your scholarship essay. Our advice:
- Do - Use AI tools to help you check spelling or to edit and refine your essay.
- Don't - Use AI tools to create your essay. We want to hear your authentic voice and this is an important part of the marking criteria.
If you are applying for a merit-based award only, you don't need to complete the full application. Just fill in your personal details and tick the box stating you wish to be considered for the Merit-based Awards.
The most valuable lesson I learned is that winning a scholarship doesn't just depend on getting the highest grades; it depends on having the courage to tell your story. The university isn't looking for a perfect person; it's looking for a genuine individual with a clear vision. Take the first small step of writing your story, and don't let the fear of competition stop you from pursuing your future at NTU.
Thu Trang Do, Vietnam
Our scholarship community
Hear from some of our past winners on what their scholarship meant to them.
Rumbidzai Davidzo Mudzamiri, Zimbabwe
"I was ecstatic to be awarded a scholarship. When I found out I was a vessel of joy. Do not be afraid to brag about your achievements, take pride in who you are and show just how big you can dream."
Nicolas Nieto, Colombia
"I felt satisfaction when I was awarded a scholarship and this was fundamental for me to take the decision to move here and start the programme. It’s not particularly difficult to apply for a scholarship, my main advice is to start preparation and paperwork in advance, read your statements and find the motivation to apply for it."
Rucsandra Moldoveanu, Romania
"Winning a scholarship gave me confidence that if you really want something, you can get it as long as you show a keen interest. Being awarded the scholarship scheme has been a great financial help!"
Yash Sureshbhai Shah, India
"Being a scholarship winner motivated me to excel academically, knowing I had the support of the university. It enriched my university experience and instilled a sense of responsibility to make the most of my education. Like a cherry on top, NTU scholars have a special ceremony and it feels immensely special for any student."
Outstanding Achievement Award
We award to international NTIC students and international Kaplan Digital Pathways students who achieve a 70% overall grade or above.
The value of the scholarship is £1,000 for each year of study on your first course at the University (excluding any work placement year).
You don’t need to apply for the scholarship, it will automatically be awarded.
British Council GREAT Scholarship
We are delighted to offer one competitive scholarship of £10,000 to students who are nationals of the below countries. There is one award available for each country:
- Egypt
- Ghana
- Nigeria
- Vietnam
Deadline: Wednesday 27 May 2026. Apply by completing our scholarship form.
Hana Ragaii, a recent GREAT Scholarship winner, has shared her story and the success she found at NTU.
Frequently asked questions about NTU scholarships
Once you have an academic offer for a course at Nottingham Trent, you can apply through our simple application form on our website.
Our scholarships are competitive so it is important to make yourself stand out from the crowd. Here are some of our top tips for completing your application:
- Spend good time on the application – you only have 500 words so make sure you use them wisely.
- Express your interests and your achievements - we want to know all about you and your goals for the future.
- Believe in yourself – you are good enough to apply so why not give it a go.
Your application must be written and completed by you. We cannot accept scholarship applications written by ChatGPT or other AI technologies as our scholarships are awarded based on your individual skills and merit.
We have a range of International Scholarship available that you can apply for. These range from £2,000 to 50% off your tuition fees.
We also have some external scholarships available that are run in collaboration with NTU. These include the British Council Scholarship and Chevening Scholarship among others.
More details can be found on our webpages or through your own research.
No. We want to hear your authentic voice and personality in your writing, not an AI Generated version. If your chosen AI platform offers to help, don't be tempted. Statements that are obviously written by AI, and not your original work, may not be considered by the awarding committee.
We offer multiple application deadlines throughout the year and the results of your scholarship will be shared around 3 weeks after each deadline.
We always list the deadlines on the scholarships page and will indicate when the final scholarship deadline for the academic year is to ensure you have an opportunity to apply. You can only apply as a prospective student who has yet to begin their studies at NTU.
We offer several criteria-based awards which allows you to just fill in a few simple personal details so we can verify your application. Provided you meet the criteria, these will be awarded to you without needing to complete the scholarship essay.
If you would like to be considered for all our awards, you can choose to fill in the entire application form including the 500 word scholarship essay. You may be awarded a scholarship worth up to 50% of your tuition fees.
The majority of our scholarships are competitive and so are awarded based on the essay you provide. This must be written by you and share information about your achievements, your goals and any interests.
You will need to contact the international team with the details of your award and which course you will now be studying. We will then review your scholarship to see if it can be applied to your new course.
Unfortunately you are not allowed to use your scholarship to make your advance payment. If you are awarded a scholarship from NTU, this will only be applied to your tuition fee records once you have enrolled. This means you need to have met all of the conditions of your offer, including the advance payment, before you receive your scholarship.
If you are deferring your academic course from a September to January intake, we can honour your scholarship for the same course. If you are changing course, please contact the international team.
If you are deferring to the following academic year, you will not be able to defer your scholarship. You will need to reapply for the international Scholarship Scheme for the new intake.
Kindly note a previous award does not guarantee a future award. Each application is considered against the round it is submitted in.
Unfortunately, we cannot reconsider any applications once a decision has been made. Students can only apply once each academic year so make sure you include all details and information you wish the panel to know about in your sole application. Please do not use the personal statement submitted for your academic application for your scholarship application.
No, we only offer scholarships to students who have yet to begin their studies at NTU. As a current student you can check with your course team to find out if they offer any subject-specific scholarships. If you are struggling with your finances you can read some helpful information on our website.
Your scholarship will be a reduction to your tuition fees. Scholarships are normally applied when your CAS is issued but may not show on your finance record until you fully enrol and start your course.
To enrol you must choose to either pay the balance in full, or in two instalments on the dates stated in the enrolment portal. Your scholarship will be split between these two payments and not just discounted from the first payment. Please budget accordingly.
Other scholarships available at NTU
Nottingham Law School’s Professional Courses Scholarships
Nottingham Law School is delighted to offer a number of competitive professional courses scholarships.
MBA Excellence Scholarship
Nottingham Business School is delighted to be able to offer the MBA Excellence Scholarship aimed to celebrate outstanding UK and international candidates who demonstrate ambition, leadership, and a commitment to making a meaningful impact.