UK’s University of East Anglia announces 5 new PG scholarships for Indian students

NEW DELHI: The United Kingdom’s University of East Anglia (UEA) has announced new scholarships for postgraduate programmes offered across different departments for the academic year 2023-2024. The scholarships include Sonny Mehta India Scholarship, MSc Academic and Professional Scholarships (International), David Sainsbury Full MSc Scholarship, NBS Masters' (MSc) Better Business Scholarship, and scholarship by School of International Development. Eligible students can apply for the scholarships on the official website – uea.ac.uk.

The Sonny Mehta India Scholarship is for Indian writers for admission in UEA’s Literature, Drama, and Creative Writing department. This scholarship is worth 28,500 euros.

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The School of International Development will offer full fees scholarships including financial assistance equal to the full amount of international fees for students seeking any full-time masters courses. There are only five seats globally and the scholarship covers tuition fees up to 19,800 euros.

MSc Academic and Professional Scholarships (International) offered by the school of economics is for those who seek advanced training in economics and wish to pursue academic careers. It is a competitive scholarship equal to full international fees (19,000 euros). Additionally, a 50 percent of the international fees (9,500) euros is also available to students taking any MSc programmes including, MSc Economics, MSc Finance and Economics, MSc Behavioural and Experimental Economics, MSc Competition Economics and Policy.

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The David Sainsbury Full MSc Scholarship is available for MSc in Global Plant Health course and would cover the full cost of tuition fee (31,500) euros, maintenance grant and an additional 4,000 euros for travel costs.

NBS Masters' (MSc) Better Business Scholarship by the Norwich Business School (NBS) offers a number of competitive scholarships, up to a total amount of 1,50,000 euros awarded as tuition fee reductions for full-time masters, MSc students. Students can apply for one full fee (21,200 euros or 22,100 euros), five 10,000 euros and ten 8,000 euros scholarship.