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 full-time Master's degree at UCL in 2025/26.
Value, benefits, and duration
- There is 1 (one) scholarship available in 2025/26.
- 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. The amount of the UCL award may be adjusted 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 26 June 2025.
Results
Successful candidates for 2025/26 will be notified in late July - early August 2025.