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Undergraduate International Partnership Excellence Award

The Undergraduate International Partnership Excellence Award is a scholarship award, designed to support international partnership students who have achieved academic excellence and show true passion for their chosen field of study. We are offering scholarships for high-achieving international students currently studying at partner institutions, covering £5,000 towards tuition fees for the first year of your chosen undergraduate degree course at the University of Nottingham UK.

Eligibility

To apply for this scholarship, you must:

• be studying at a partner university of the University of Nottingham
• be classed as an 'overseas' student for tuition fee purposes
• hold an offer to begin a full-time undergraduate degree programme at the University of Nottingham UK in September 2025 as part of a teaching partnership programme with your home university

To check you are eligible and currently studying at a partner institution, please see https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/global/partnerships/teaching-partnerships.aspx

How to apply

You must apply for an undergraduate degree course at the University of Nottingham and receive an offer of study before you can apply for this scholarship. As a partner student you will apply through your home university. Please speak to your home university for guidance on this.

Once you have received your offer, you can apply for this scholarship through our application form, which will be available through the partner institution. Please contact your institution to access this application form. 

In your application, you will be asked about your achievements, study plans and reasons for choosing to study with us. Make sure you have enough time to prepare strong answers. We will assess your responses and academic merit when making scholarship decisions.

Please note that there is a strict word count limit for all questions, which is outlined at the end of each question. The system does not automatically limit this, so you would be encouraged to check your application before you submit. Any responses submitted that exceed the outlined word count may not be reviewed.

The International Partnership Excellence Award is only open to students from partner institutions of the University of Nottingham. If you submit an application but are not currently studying at a partner institution, your application may not be reviewed by the scholarship panel.

Scholarship criteria

You do not need to respond to your offer in UCAS before submitting your application for this scholarship.

Scholarships will be awarded after assessing all scholarship applications. We will contact you in mid-July 2025 to confirm the outcome of your application.

To maximise the reach of university's scholarships offering, our international scholarships cannot be combined with other competitive University scholarships. Where you are awarded multiple scholarships, the single highest-value award will be applied. 

International scholarships are available to self-funded students only. If you are sponsored by an external funding body, e.g. government, business, employer, trust or charity, you are not eligible to apply. 

If you are awarded this scholarship, it will be deducted from the tuition fees charged to you as a student at the University of Nottingham. We will not pay tuition fee scholarships to you directly.

Please contact our Teaching Partnerships Team for any queries about the scholarship application:

Contact partner-relations@nottingham.ac.uk

Check our frequently asked questions, scholarship application guidance notes and scholarship terms and conditions for further information.