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Global Futures Scholarships 2025
The University of Manchester is proud to offer more than 330 awards to international students commencing their studies in September 2025. The total value of scholarships on offer will be over £4.5 million, and awards will be open to students applying for undergraduate and master’s degrees.
Undergraduate awards
The University of Manchester is pleased to offer over 100 merit-based undergraduate scholarships of up to £24,000 (£8,000 per year over three years) to international students from a selection of countries across the globe.
The 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 £8,000 for the first year of study, with a further £8,000 awarded in the second and third years. Continuation of the award is conditional on attainment of 60% in exams and assessments each year. Scholarships will be awarded in the form of a discount on published international tuition fees.
Students must be taking one of the following qualifications: A-level, IB or AP’s (American Diplomas).
Scholarships will be awarded based on academic excellence, predicted and achieved 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.
- Applications will be considered from international fee-paying students domiciled in Turkey.
- To be considered as domiciled in Turkey, applicants must have predominantly resided there during the last three years.
- We consider your permanent country of residence to be the country in which you are ordinarily resident, not a country where you are only living for the purpose of full-time education.
- Applicants must be applying for direct first-year entry in 2025 and have, or be working towards, one of the following qualifications:
- A-levels
- IB Diploma
- AP’s (American Diploma)
- Application deadlines will vary by the qualification taken.
- 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 2025.
- Applicants who have previously studied in the UK are not eligible for the award.
- The award applies only to full-time courses of study delivered at The University of Manchester’s UK campus in Manchester. 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. Forms will not be emailed until December 2024.
- Awards offers will be made by 2 May 2025, and will be conditional on academic performance as outlined in the full terms and conditions linked below.
The above is provided as a summary but please ensure that you download and read our full terms and conditions (PDF, 152KB).
You must submit an online scholarship application form by 21 April 2025.
Successful applicants will be notified by 2 May 2025.
In addition, a number of other Faculty, School and programme-specific scholarships are available to students from Turkey.
Master's awards
The University of Manchester is proud to offer more than 230 merit-based master’s scholarships to prospective international students from a range of countries across the globe.
The value of the Global Futures Scholarships for Turkish students is £8,000. Scholarships will be awarded in the form of a discount on published overseas tuition fees.
The awards are open to applicants domiciled in Turkey.
Please note the application form will only be made available to you once you have applied and been made an offer (either conditional or unconditional).
These scholarships of £8,000 will be awarded based on academic excellence and the quality of your responses in the online application form.
Scholarships will be awarded in the form of a discount on published overseas tuition fees.
Please note the application form will only be made available to you once you have applied and been made an offer.
- Applications will be considered from international fee-paying students domiciled in Turkey.
- To be considered as domiciled in Turkey, applicants must have predominantly resided there during the last three years.
- We consider your permanent country of residence to be the country in which you are ordinarily resident, not a country where you are only living for the purpose of full-time education.
- Applicants for the Turkey awards must hold an unconditional offer by 14 July 2025 to study a full-time on-campus master’s course beginning in September 2025 at The University of Manchester, and must submit an online scholarship application form by the same deadline (24 April 2025). The application form will be emailed to all eligible offer-holders.
- Applicants will be considered for the award based on academic merit and the quality of their scholarship application, but we will endeavour to achieve a balance by gender, domicile and course in the allocation of the awards.
- Applicants must be self-funded (not sponsored).
- Applicants for MBA, MPhil, Master of Architecture (MArch), Architecture and Urbanism (MA), Master of Landscape Architecture (MLA), Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE), Clinical Medicine and Dentistry degrees are not eligible for the award. Some ‘Master’s by Research’ courses are also ineligible (see Terms and Conditions, below).
- Applicants who have studied a Bachelor’s degree outside of Turkey are not eligible for the award.
- Applicants for blended and distance learning programmes are not eligible for the award.
The above is provided as a summary but please ensure that you download and read our full terms and conditions (PDF, 157KB).
Applicants for the Turkey awards must hold an unconditional offer by 14 July 2025 to study a full-time on-campus master’s course beginning in September 2025 at The University of Manchester.
They must submit an online scholarship application form by the deadline 24 April 2025.
The application form will be emailed to all eligible offer-holders before 24 April 2024.
In addition, a number of other Faculty, School and programme-specific scholarships are available to students from Turkey.
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 academic School for details, in addition to the University’s postgraduate research funding database.
GREAT Scholarship 2025
In partnership with the British Council and the GREAT Britain Campaign, The University of Manchester is offering eligible students a GREAT scholarship of £10,000 towards tuition fees for one-year master’s programmes in specific subject areas to students from Turkey who will enrol in the 2025/26 academic year.
Find out more about GREAT scholarships.