UCD Global Excellence Scholarships for International Students 2024

University College Dublin (UCD) in Ireland is one of the world's top universities and is the most popular university for international students in Ireland. Each year, UCD offers a number of Global Excellence Scholarship to international students (on non-EU fees) who are starting a course at UCD in September.

To apply for the Global Excellence Scholarship, students must first have received an offer (or conditional offer) to study in an eligible UCD course.

• Table of Content
• About University College Dublin
• Global Excellence Scholarships
• Aim and Benefits of Global Excellence Scholarships
• Requirements for Global Excellence Scholarships Qualification
• Interview date, Process and Venue for Global Excellence Scholarships
• Application Deadline
• How to Apply

Global Excellence Scholarships

Aim and Benefits of Global Excellence Scholarships

• 100% Global Excellence Tuition Fee Scholarship
• 50% Global Excellence Tuition Fee Scholarship

Requirements for Global Excellence Scholarships Qualification

Applicants must be African, current residents of an African country, and classified as non-EU for tuition fee and application purposes;

• Open to all successful applicants to eligible full time, taught programmes who are citizens of and resident in Africa.
• Eligible programmes are limited to those that are undergraduate and graduate taught programmes, where the student must be based in Dublin and no part of the programme is awarded by another institution. All Clinical Programmes are ineligible for the Global
  Excellence Scholarship. A full list of eligible programmes is provided in Eligible Programmes.
• Applicants must be self-funding and classified as non-EU for tuition fee and application purposes;
• This is a highly competitive scholarship, and as such successful applicants are likely to have obtained a first class honours degree (For Masters).
• Scholarships are renewable annually subject to the student maintaining an annual grade point average of no less than 3.08/4.2 (upper second class)
• In order to be eligible to apply for this advertised scholarship, applicants must have ‘Offer’, ‘Conditional Offer’, ‘Accept’ or ‘Conditional Accept’ status associated with their application;

Interview date, Process and Venue for Global Excellence Scholarships

Selection Criteria: 

Successful candidates will be selected on merit paired with a holistic review of their scholarship application

Application Deadline

How to Apply

In order to be eligible to apply for this advertised scholarship, applicants must have ‘Offer’, ‘Conditional Offer’, ‘Accept’ or ‘Conditional Accept’ status associated with their application;

For more details, visit UCD websie.