Postgraduate First-Class Scholarship
The scholarship will reduce tuition fees by 33% for new UK and international postgraduate students.
All awards are subject to your meeting the University’s academic entry requirements and abiding by the University’s rules and regulations.
Not available for School of Education courses, Postgraduate Certificates or Diplomas.
Criteria and eligibility
To be eligible for this scholarship, candidates need to:
- be a new student to Buckingham
- hold a First Class Bachelor’s Honours degree that is recognised to UK standard or the equivalent level of qualification from other countries
- have been offered a place to study at Buckingham.
Current Buckingham undergraduate students wishing to continue on to postgraduate studies with us are eligible for a separate range of fee discounts based on their academic achievement at undergraduate level.
Matched courses
To qualify for the scholarship, an application to one of the following programmes listed below is required.
- 20th Century British History PhD, (3 years)
- Accounting PhD, (3 years)
- Accounting and Finance MSc, (1 year)
- Applied Computing MSc, (1.5 years)
- Applied Data Science MSc, (1 year)
- Art Market, Provenance and the History of Collecting MA, (2 years)
- Biography PhD, (6 years)
- Biomedical Sciences PhD, (3 years)
- Caribbean and Latin American Studies PhD, (6 years)
- Computing PhD, (6 years)
- Country House Studies PhD, (6 years)
- Cultural Politics PhD, (6 years)
- Decorative Arts and Historic Interiors MA, (2 years)
- Economics PhD, (6 years)
- English Literature PhD, (3 years)
- Finance and Investment MSc, (1 year)
- Financial Fraud Investigation and Intelligence MSc, (2 years)
- Garden History PhD, (6 years)
- History PhD, (6 years)
- History of Art PhD, (6 years)
- History of Modern Europe PhD, (6 years)
- History of Nineteenth-Century Britain PhD, (6 years)
- History of Western Architecture PhD, (3 years)
- Innovative Computing MSc, (1 year)
- Intellectual History PhD, (6 years)
- International Law, Security and Diplomacy LLM, (1 year)
- International Law, Security and Diplomacy MA, (1 year)
- International Studies PhD, (6 years)
- International and Commercial Law LLM, (12 months / 9 months)
- Law PhD, (6 years)
- Migration History: People, Objects, Cultures MA, (1 year)
- Military History PhD, (6 years)
- Modern War Studies PhD, (6 years)
- Money, Banking and Central Banking MSc, (2 years)
- Money, Banking and Wealth Management MSc, (2 years)
- Philosophy PhD, (6 years)
- Practitioner in Psychological Trauma MSc, (2 years)
- Psychology PhD, (6 years)
- Refugee History PhD, (6 years)
- Security and Intelligence Studies PhD, (6 years)
- Security, Intelligence and Diplomacy MA, (1 year)
- Strategic Marketing & Customer Experience Management MSc, (2 years)
- Stuart History PhD, (6 years)
- Tudor History PhD, (3 years)
- United Nations and Diplomatic Studies MA, (1 year)
How to apply
Reminder: You need an application ID to submit an application for this scholarship, which you receive after submitting your application to one of our courses. Ensure your course application is submitted before applying for our funded scholarships.
September 2025 entry
Scholarships for courses commencing September 2025 are now available to apply for.
January 2026 entry
The scholarship application form for courses commencing January 2026 is not yet available.