UAL International Postgraduate £10,000 Scholarships — Master's Scholarship

The UAL International Postgraduate £10,000 Scholarships support students classified for overseas tuition fees who will take an eligible taught master’s course at University of the Arts London. The published 2026/27 cycle offers up to 288 awards across full-time and part-time courses at UAL Colleges and Institutes in London.

Eligible qualifications are Grad Dip, M ARCH, MA, MFA, MBA, MRes and MSc; UAL Online courses are excluded. The award reduces tuition costs while recipients undertake their chosen course.

Benefits & funding

A £10,000 tuition-fee waiver.
Up to 288 scholarships are available for the 2026/27 academic year.
The award is credited directly to the recipient’s fee account in the first course year.
If the award exceeds first-year fees on a part-time or extended full-time course, the remainder is applied to second-year fees.
A recipient may hold only one UAL award or scholarship at a time.

Eligibility

Hold an offer for a full-time or part-time taught master’s course at a UAL College or Institute starting in 2026/27.
The course must lead to a Grad Dip, M ARCH, MA, MFA, MBA, MRes or MSc qualification; UAL Online courses are not eligible.
Qualify for the Overseas category of tuition-fee status.
Have achieved, or be predicted to achieve, at least an upper second-class undergraduate honours degree or a recognised equivalent.
Applicants who already hold a UK postgraduate taught qualification, or an equivalent-level qualification earned through study in the UK, are not eligible.
No nationality, residency, gender, age or work-experience requirement is stated.

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Application process

1
Apply for an eligible UAL taught master’s course.
2
Receive a course offer before applying for the scholarship.
3
Open the scholarship form through the my funding page in the UAL applicant portal.
4
Submit transcripts or predicted-grade evidence and answer the three personal-statement questions, with no more than 350 words for each response.
5
Submit by the scholarship deadline assigned to the same postgraduate application round as the course offer.
6
If selected, accept the scholarship through the UAL Portal after receiving the award letter.

Program timeline

Scholarship forms become available to eligible offer holders in the applicant portal.
December 2025 onward
27 March 2026
Round 1 scholarship deadline for September, October or November 2026 course starts.
Round 1 decisions.
29 May 2026
26 June 2026
Round 2 scholarship deadline for September, October or November 2026 course starts.
Round 2 decisions.
7 August 2026
Autumn-start courses begin, depending on the course.
September, October or November 2026
30 October 2026 at 11:59 p.m. UK time
Scholarship deadline for January 2027 course starts.
3 December 2026
Decisions for January 2027 course starts.
January 2027
January-start courses begin, depending on the course.