University of Southampton

Southampton funds international students through a mix of university-wide awards and faculty schemes. Its Vice-Chancellor's Global Achievers Award, which appears on this page, is aimed at high-achieving international applicants and sits alongside the faculty merit scholarships and programme-specific awards listed below. Several of these are decided on admission, so the offer letter and the funding decision arrive together.

For doctoral students the picture is shaped by the UK research councils. Southampton departments award council-funded studentships to specific projects and candidates, and university research scholarships cover the rest, so a funded PhD place usually follows from matching a funded project rather than winning an open competition. Taught postgraduate students lean on the faculty scholarships and the international merit awards that appear below.

Southampton restates its scholarship rounds every year with firm dates, and the deadline on a card is the current one for that cycle. Each official link leads to the Southampton page that owns the award, which is also where you confirm whether the award covers tuition only or adds a living cost contribution, since the two behave very differently in practice.