Scholarships at University of Southampton

We are pleased to offer our Southampton Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) Commonwealth Scholarships to new international students from Commonwealth countries to demonstrate our commitment to building greater inclusivity in our ECS community and widening access to enable well qualified international students to study in the UK.

Scholarships of £3,000 are available to international students studying for an Electronics and Computer Science:

• undergraduate degree

• postgraduate master’s degree

There are 20 scholarships available: 

• 10 for undergraduates

• 10 for postgraduates

Eligibility

To be eligible for a scholarship you must:

• have an offer to study 

• need to pay the overseas tuition fee

You must not be in receipt of any external scholarship.

You cannot apply if you are studying:

• on PGCert, PGDip, Foundation or PGR courses

• on Distance Learning courses

• with a partner institution

• at our campus in Malaysia

• on Study Abroad courses

• as an exchange or partner student

• on Continuing Professional Development (CPD) courses

• only pre-sessional English – pre-sessional English students with an offer to study at undergraduate or postgraduate level can still apply

You are eligible to apply for this scholarship if you are resident in:

• Antigua and Barbuda

• Australia

• Bahamas

• Bangladesh

• Barbados

• Belize

• Botswana

• Brunei Darussalam

• Cameroon

• Canada

• Cyprus

• Dominica

• Eswatini

• Fiji Islands

• Gabon

• Gambia

• Ghana

• Grenada

• Guyana

• India

• Jamaica

• Kenya

• Kiribati

• Lesotho

• Malawi

• Malaysia

• Maldives

• Malta

• Mauritius

• Mozambique

• Namibia

• Nauru

• New Zealand

• Nigeria

• Pakistan

• Papua New Guinea

• Rwanda

• Samoa

• Seychelles

• Sierra Leone

• Singapore

• Solomon Islands

• South Africa

• Sri Lanka

• St Kitts and Nevis

• St Lucia

• St Vincent and the Grenadines

• Tanzania

• Togo

• Tonga

• Trinidad and Tobago

• Tuvalu

• Uganda

• Vanuatu

• Zambia

We determine your residency as where you have been living for a 3 year period or longer before the start of the course. This does not include where you are living for study purposes, if it is somewhere different to where you normally live.

Deadline

Undergraduates and Postgraduates can apply from w/c 23 October 2024 until 5pm (UK time) on 22 April 2025.