University College Dublin Global Excellence Scholarships for African 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.

Scholarship awards are applicable to full time Masters programmes, this is excluding all clinical programmes and Masters programmes in the Smurfit School of Business, joint masters programmes, online programmes and the MSc in Digital Investigation & Forensic Computing

About University College Dublin

A leading European research-intensive university, UCD is the largest university in Ireland. With a history stretching back to 1854 and an impressive list of notable alumni, including the writer James Joyce and many current and former government ministers, we can rightly claim to have been a formative influence and an integral part of the Irish State since its foundation. In recent years UCD has established itself as Ireland’s Global University, with operations around the world, and more than 5000 international students attending our Dublin campus coming from 124 different countries. T... read more

University College Dublin Global Excellence Scholarships

Aim and Benefits of University College Dublin Global Excellence Scholarships

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

Requirements for University College Dublin 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;

Application Deadline

How to Apply

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

For more details, visit UCD website