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A £1500 reduction in tuition fees is available to new international students beginning a full-time course in the academic year 2026/27 who hold an unconditional offer and pay tuition fees less any International Office awards including the Early Confirmation Award by the following deadlines:

• January 2026 Students must pay on or before their programme start date, as shown in your offer letter, to qualify for the Early Confirmation Award. 
• Undergraduate unconditional offer holders 18 September 2026
• Postgraduate Taught unconditional offer holders 18 September 2026
• Postgraduate Research unconditional offer holders before the start date given in their offer letter

This award is exclusively for new international students beginning their first year of full-time study on the graduate entry Law Senior Status (LLB HONS) accelerated qualifying law degree at Â鶹Íø in the academic year 2026/27 who meet the conditions of their academic offer.

No separate application for this scholarship is required. If you are holding an offer for graduate entry Law Senior Status (LLB HONS) accelerated qualifying law degree and meet the criteria as set out in these terms & conditions, you will automatically be awarded the LLB Senior Status International Scholarship upon enrolment.

All eligible international applicants will receive notification either with their offer or shortly after receiving their offer.

The scholarship may only be claimed by students whose sibling, parent or grandparent is currently pursuing, or has already completed, a  programme at Â鶹Íø, including completion of an exchange or Study Abroad programme.

Stepchildren and step siblings may also be eligible.

Students wishing to avail of the Queen’s Family Scholarship may be required to provide additional verification of their relationship to the current Queen’s University Belfast student or Queen’s University Belfast Alumni through whom they are claiming the Scholarship.

Undergraduate students must be Exchange, Study Abroad or International Summer School students who have successfully completed  their previous programme at the Â鶹Íø campus.

Postgraduate Taught students must be Â鶹Íø Alumni, Exchange, Study Abroad, International Summer School or AHSS Winter School students who have successfully completed their previous programme at the Â鶹Íø campus.

Postgraduate Research students must be Â鶹Íø Alumni, Exchange, Study Abroad, International Summer School or AHSS Winter School students who have successfully completed their previous programme at the Â鶹Íø campus.

Applicants can only apply and be considered for the Vice Chancellor’s International Attainment Scholarship-Undergraduate after they have been offered a place to study on one of the  programmes listed below and confirmed Queen’s University Belfast as their FIRM choice by their UCAS deadline. Applications cannot be considered in advance of applicants meeting these two criteria.

• Bsc Actuarial Science and Risk Management
• BSc Biochemistry
• BSc Biological Sciences
• BSc Biological Sciences with Professional Studies
• BSc Biomedical Science
• BSc Business Management with Placement
• BEng Chemical Engineering
• BSc Chemistry
• BEng Civil Engineering
• BSc Data Science with Year of Professional
• BA Education Studies
• BSc Environmental Management
• BSc Food Science & Nutrition
• LLB Law
• LLB Law Senior Status
• BSc Mathematics
• BSc Microbiology
• BSc Pharmaceutical Biotechnology
• BSc Pharmaceutical Sciences
• BSc Physics

Applicants applying for the above named programmes with an additional year in industry are also eligible to apply as are those selecting a 4 or 5 year undergraduate masters programme in the above named programmes.

A 50% reduction on full tuition fees paid for all years of the programme, up to a maximum of two years will be offered to the successful candidate who will be studying one the following programmes:

• MSc Accounting, Finance and Analytics 
• MSc Advanced Food Safety
• MSc Animal Behaviour and Welfare
• MA Arts Management
• MSc Bioinformatics & Computational Genomics
• MSc (T) Biomedical & Clin Rese.
• MSc Biopharmaceutical Engineering
• Master of Business Administration MBA 
• Master of Business Administration MBA with Internship
• MSc Business Analytics
• MSc (Res) Cancer Medicine
• MSc Climate Change
• MSc Clinical Anatomy
• MSc (T) Constr and Proj Mgmt
• MSc Ecological Management & Conservation Biology
• MSc Educational Leadership
• MSc Industrial Pharmaceutics
• LLM Intellectual Property Law
• LLM International Commercial and Business Law
• MSc International Public Policy
• LLM Law and Technology
• MSc Marketing
• MA Media and Broadcast Production
• MSc Molecular Biology and Biotechnology
• MSc Net Zero Engineering
• MSc Net Zero with Year in Industry
• MSc One Health: Parasitology and Infection Biology 
• MPH Public Health
• MSc (T) Robotic and Artificial Intelligence
• MSc Teaching English to Speakers of other Languages (TESOL) and Applied Linguistics

See CourseFinder for course details

No separate application for this scholarship is required. If you achieve a 75% GPA at the end of the academic year and meet the eligibility criteria as set out in the terms & conditions, you will automatically be awarded a Queen’s Excellence Award following enrolment in the next year of your undergraduate programme. Notifications are normally issued during August and if eligible your award will be credited to your tuition fee account in September.

No separate application for this scholarship is required. If you achieve a 60% GPA at the end of the academic year and meet the eligibility criteria as set out in the terms & conditions, you will automatically be awarded a Queen’s Excellence Award following enrolment in the next year of your undergraduate programme. Notifications are normally issued during August and if eligible your award will be credited to your tuition fee account in September.

 To be eligible for this Scholarship you must:

1. Be a current Level 3 student at CQC, completing the BSc in Pharmaceutical Sciences or the BSc in Pharmaceutical Biotechnology.
2. Have applied and received an offer of a place of study for Postgraduate Research (PhD) at Queen’s University Belfast.
3. Complete and submit this form by the deadline 4.00pm (CST) on Monday, 1 June 2026.

If you have not already applied for Postgraduate Research at QUB you will find further information here: /Study/postgraduate/research-degrees/ 

Applications must be submitted through the Â鶹Íø Portal: 

For further information please contact cqcadmin@qub.ac.uk

Scholarship Value

Queen’s University Belfast provides a full tuition fee scholarship for successful applicants.  For those commencing the first year of PhD studies in 2026, the scholarship will cover up to three years full-time international PhD tuition fees, and one year thesis only/writing up charge (exact fee to be confirmed – 2025 rate is £360).  The award is subject to registration at Queen’s, continued funding by the China Scholarship Council and to confirmation of satisfactory progress.

Successful applicants for the award will not be asked to pay any ‘bench fees’. These should be waived or covered by the relevant supervisor/department/faculty at Queen’s University Belfast.

The China Scholarship Council provides:

• Maintenance stipend (as specified by the CSC)
• One economy class return journey from China to the UK
• Funding to cover visa application fees

Eligibility

(i) Candidates must be citizens of the People's Republic of China at the time of application, and either permanently resident in China or studying overseas. (Those working overseas are not eligible.)

It should be noted that citizens of Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan are not eligible for consideration under the CSC joint funding route. Candidates must hold a PRC passport.

(ii) Successful candidates must return to China upon completion of their degree.

(iii) Candidates will also be required to satisfy the selection criteria set out by CSC. Details can be found on the website: .