Scholarships and funding

Institute for Global Health Postgraduate Bursaries (Open to all IGH MSc applicants)

We are offering MSc Postgraduate Bursaries of £2,000 each. The award amount will be deducted from the cost of fees.

Eligibility

IGH MSc Postgraduate Bursaries are available to UK and Overseas applicants who have an unconditional or conditional offer to study the MSc in Global Health and Development, MSc Health Economics and Decision Science and MSc Applied Infectious Diseases Epidemiology full time, part time or modular/flexible, for entry in September 2025.

Selection criteria

The criteria for awarding the scholarship is financial need.

 Please submit this application form to igh.scholarships@ucl.ac.uk by 9:00 am on 27th June 2025.  Successful applicants will be notified in August 2025. 

Dr Keith Travel Bursary (Open to current MSc students)

The Institute for Global Health is very pleased to be able to offer a travel bursary to current MSc students in Global Health and Development. This bursary is possible thanks to the generosity of Dr. Keith Thomson (MBBS 1976) a UCL graduate with a passion for Global Health.

Eligibility

The bursary is intended for students who:

• Are studying for the MSc in Global Health and Development  
• Wish to travel abroad to conduct primary data collection for their MSc dissertation
• Have maintained an average of 60% in the MSc at the time of application

Selection criteria

The criteria for awarding the Dr. Keith travel bursary are academic excellence and relevance of the research abroad.

Application

Please submit an application form (word doc 500 words max.) describing your project and how you intend to use the bursary to igh.adminpg@ucl.ac.uk. Applications accepted on a rolling basis. 

The Commonwealth Shared Scholarship Scheme (Open to Applied Infectious Disease Epidemiology MSc and Global Health and Development MSc)

This is a joint initiative between the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission (with funding from the Department for International Development (DFID), and UK universities, to support scholarships for students from developing Commonwealth countries who would not otherwise be able to study in the United Kingdom.

The aim of the scheme is to assist students from developing Commonwealth countries who are of excellent academic calibre but for financial reasons would not otherwise be able to afford to study in the United Kingdom.  The scheme allows them to benefit from postgraduate study at a university in the United Kingdom which will help them to contribute toward the development of their home countries.

Applicants to the Applied Infectious Disease Epidemiology MSc and Global Health and Development MSc programme who are from developing Commonwealth countries are eligible to apply for the academic year 2025/2026.

 The deadline for 2025/2026 applications is 12th December 2024. Please visit the UCL Scholarships website for more information about eligibility and how to apply.

Student Spotlight: Abdul Karim Bah

Abdul Karim Bah recieved the Commonwealth Shared Scholarship to study Global Health and Development MSc in 24/25. Read all about his experience applying for the scheme. 

African Graduate Scholarship

We are pleased to announced that this year again we are able to offer the African Graduate Scholarship for 2025-26 applicants. 

Co-funded by:

• CP Charitable Trust
• International Student House

Scholarship

The scholarships exist to support African nationals with a high-quality academic and professional background who would not be able to study at UCL without financial assistance.  The Scholarship is a one-off award for the academic year September-September to study at the UCL Institute for Global Health on the MSc in Global Health and Development programme.

Candidates must meet the following criteria:

- The candidate must be an African national and a permanent resident of an African nation at the time of application. The candidate must have made an application and been accepted with an unconditional offer to UCL to study the MSc in Global Health and Development full time. 

- The scheme offers a substantial scholarship towards UCL tuition fees, accommodation and some living costs. The candidate must also be able to provide evidence that he/she has secured other sources of funding for travelling to and from the UK.

Please complete an application form and send to igh.scholarships@ucl.ac.uk.

The deadline for 2025/2026 applications is Friday 30 May 2025 17:00 BST.

Student Spotlight: Martins Ihedilionye

Martins Ihedilionye recieved the African Graduate Scholarship to study the Global Health and Development MSc in 24/25. Read all about his experience applying for the scheme. 

GREAT Scholarship

The UCL-GREAT Scholarships 2025 are jointly funded by UCL and the British Council to provide financial support to citizens of Egypt, France, India and Kenya (Science and Technology).

Four scholarships are available in 2025/26, 1 for each country with a value of £10,000.

Deadline: 8th May 2025.

Find out more on the UCL website.

Mukul Madhav Foundation Scholarship

The Mukul Madhav Foundation Scholarship was founded in 2025 to assist Indian nationals to undertake Master's study at UCL in the Institute of Global Health or Institute of Child Health. 

There is one scholarship available in 2025/26 which covers the full tuition fees. Candidates must meet the following criteria:

- be ordinarily resident in India and eligible to pay the Overseas fee rate

- And have submitted a complete admission application (including the submission of references) for a full-time, one-year Master's degree at UCL in 2025/26 for one of the following programmes; 

• MSc in Global Health and Development
• MSc in Health Economics and Decision Science 
• MSc in Applied Infectious Disease Epidemiology
• MSc Paediatrics and Child Health: Advanced Paediatrics
• MSc Child and Adolescent Mental Health
• MSc Cell, Gene and Novel Therapies

AND be in receipt of an offer from UCL by the selection result deadline in late June.  Please note: Distance-learning options are not eligible for this fund; students must be coming to the UK to attend UCL in person.

Find out more on the UCL Scholarships website.

Research degree scholarships
UCL also runs scholarships for research degrees. Please visit the IGH Research Degrees page for further information.

External sources of funding