Professor Sir Malcolm Grant Postgraduate Scholarship

The Professor Sir Malcolm Grant Postgraduate Scholarship was established to celebrate the exceptional contribution of the outgoing President & Provost to the UCL community over 10 years.

The aim of the Professor Sir Malcolm Grant Postgraduate Scholarship is to enable and encourage UCL alumni who can show leadership potential as well as demonstrate financial need to pursue their Master's studies at UCL. 

Eligibility

Candidates must fulfil all of the following criteria:

• be ordinarily resident in the UK and eligible to pay Home fee rate;
• have successfully completed or be currently completing undergraduate studies at UCL;
• AND have submitted a complete admission application (including submission of references) for a stand-alone* full-time Master's degree at UCL in 2026/27.

* Must be a standalone Master's rather than the Master's element of an integrated undergraduate degree such as MEng, MPharm, etc.  Applicants must not be importing credits from prevous study into this programme, or be applying to a 1+3 (MRes + MPhil/PhD programme). 

Value, benefits, and duration

• There is 1 (one) scholarship available in 2026/27.
• The value of the scholarship is £25,000.
• The scholarship is tenable for one year only unless the student is part-time or on a full-time programme which is 2yrs in length. In those cases the bursary will be paid 50% in each year of study without exception.
• The Professor Sir Malcolm Grant Postgraduate Scholarship may be held alongside other scholarships, studentships, awards, or bursaries depending on the total value of other funds received by the student.
• Scholarship recipients are obliged to inform the UCL Student Funding Office immediately of any other funding they are awarded towards their UCL Master’s degree studies, before or subsequent to the Professor Sir Malcolm Grant Postgraduate Scholarship award.
• The scholarship will first be applied to the recipient’s tuition fees, with any remainder payable to the recipient in three equal instalments throughout the academic year towards maintenance.

Selection

The scholarship is awarded on the basis of financial need and leadership potential.

How to apply

Please visit the Masters Funding Awards page for information on how to apply. 

The deadline for applications to this scholarship will be at 5pm BST, Thursday 25 June 2026.

Fee Deposit Information

If you have applied for funding and are eligible for consideration for a full scholarship (fees plus stipend), you may receive an extension to the fee deposit payment date.  For this award, the Student Funding Office will advise Admissions of the eligible applicants by 1 April 2026.  If you submit your Professor Sir Malcolm Grant Postgraduate Scholarship application via the Master's Funding Awards form after that date, please get in touch with us directly so we can advise Admissions of your application.

If your funding application for a full scholarship is successful, your fee deposit requirement can be waived.  For awards administered by the Student Funding Office (UCL East London Scholarship or Professor Sir Malcolm Grant Postgraduate Scholarship), we will advise Admissions of your award and request the waiver.  

Results

Successful candidates will be notified by mid-August.