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Bicentenary Global Futures Scholarships
To celebrate its bicentenary in 2024, Manchester is proud to offer over 200 awards to international students commencing their studies in September 2024. The total value of scholarships offered will be over £3.5 million, and awards will be open to prospective bachelor’s and master’s students.
Undergraduate awards
We are offering more than 100 merit-based undergraduate scholarships of £21,000 to international students from a selection of countries across the globe.
The Bicentenary Global Futures Scholarships are open to applicants domiciled in Turkey.
Please note the application form will only be made available to you once you have applied and received an offer.
Each award comprises £7,000 for the first year of study with a further £7,000 awarded in the second and third years of study, conditional on attainment of 60% average in each year. Scholarships will be awarded in the form of a discount on published overseas tuition fees.
Students must be taking one of the following qualifications: A-level, IB or AP’s.
Scholarships will be awarded based on academic excellence, predicted grades and your responses to questions in the online application form, which will be emailed to all eligible offer holders.
Awardees will be selected based on academic merit, but we will endeavour to achieve a balance in the allocation of the awards by gender, domicile, qualification type and course of study.
Please note the application form will only be made available to you once you have applied and received an offer.
You must submit an online scholarship application form by 23 May 2024.
The link to the online application form will be emailed to all relevant offer-holders.
All successful applicants will be notified of the University’s decision by 21 June 2024
In addition, a number of other faculty, school and programme-specific scholarships are available to students from Turkey.
- Applications will be considered from international fee-paying students domiciled in Turkey.
- Applicants must be applying for direct first-year entry in 2024 and have, or be working towards one of the following qualifications: A-levels, IB Diploma, AP’s (American Diploma).
- Applicants for the Turkey awards must have accepted (made firm) a conditional or unconditional offer to study a full-time programme at Manchester and must submit an online scholarship application form by 23 May 2024.
- Scholarship applications from A Level, IB and AP’s will be assessed on any previous examinations, predicted grades in the above-listed qualifications and the strength of the personal statement.
- Applicants must be self-funded (not sponsored).
- Applicants for Medicine (MBChB), Dentistry (BDS), Architecture, or any courses with an integrated foundation year are not eligible for the award.
- Applicants must have selected The University of Manchester as their FIRM UCAS choice by 23 May 2024.
- Applicants who have previously studied at a higher education institution in the UK are not eligible for the award.
- Applicants for blended and distance learning programmes are not eligible for the award.
- The application form will be emailed automatically to all eligible applicants shortly after an academic offer is made.
- Awards offers will be made by 21 June 2024, and will be conditional on academic performance as outlined in the full terms and conditions linked below.
Study at Manchester
For undergraduate study, you can search for subject-specific awards.
You can search our database for master’s funding opportunities. For PhDs the University offers a number of competitive bursaries via individual Schools and research groups for well-qualified candidates. Please check with your prospective School for details.
The Turkish Education Foundation (TEV) may also be able to provide you with funding opportunities.
Turkish Nationals are also able to apply for Jean Monnet Scholarships. Jean Monnet Scholarship grants provide an opportunity to Turkish young professionals in the public and private sector and university students to study for up to one year at postgraduate level.
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