We do not offer full fee scholarships but for exceptionally talented undergraduate applicants we offer the Vice Chancellor's International Attainment Scholarship.

This awards a 50% reduction in tuition fees for all years of the programme. 

Vice-Chancellor's International Attainment Scholarship

All awards are offered subject to applicants meeting the terms and conditions. 

UG Medicine and UG Dentistry are not eligible to receive any awards offered by the International Office.

All International Office scholarships are awarded as a discount on tuition fees.

This will be credited to your tuition fee account following enrolment.

No cash alternative is available.

Where you are required to make an online application, academic or professional achievements will not be considered. Any documents, certificates or references attached to any application will be disregarded and deleted.

All applications are assessed on their individual merits and are considered equally.

Applicants can only apply and be considered for International Office Scholarships after they have been offered a place to study on their chosen eligible programme. 

Where you are required to make an online application, this cannot be considered in advance of you receiving an offer of a place to study your chosen programme.

You will be automatically assessed for the International Office Undergraduate Scholarship - no application is needed.

If your fees are being paid by a sponsor, which could include your government or a charitable organisation, you are not eligible for International Office scholarships.

Only self-funded international students paying the full international tuition fee rate are eligible for International Office scholarships.

Applicants funding their studies with educational loans are considered to be self-funded and are eligible to receive International Office scholarships, subject to meeting terms and conditions.

You may apply and/or be considered for more than one award administered by Queen’s University Belfast but if successful would receive only the highest value award with the lower value award cancelled or allocated to another applicant.

Please click below for details of the Queen's Excellence Award which is merit based award subject to terms and conditions:

Queen's Excellence Award

The International Office Undergraduate Scholarship, Queen's Loyalty Scholarship, Queen's Family Scholarship, and the Early Confirmation Award are for your first year of study only.

The Vice Chancellor's International Attainment Scholarship is paid for all years of your programme.

All scholarships are offered subject to terms and conditions.

Only international students paying the full international tuition fee rate are eligible for International Office scholarships.

If your fees are being paid by a sponsor, this could include your government or a charitable organisation, you are not eligible for International Office scholarships. Only self-funded international students paying the full international tuition fee rate are eligible for International Office scholarships.

You may apply and/or be considered for more than one award administered by Queen’s University Belfast but if successful would receive only the highest value award with the lower value award cancelled or allocated to another applicant.

The Queen's Excellence Award is a merit-based award is exclusive to new International Students who will commence a full-time and full duration undergraduate programme in the academic year 2023-24 and then achieve a minimum GPA of 75% in the academic year 2023-24 at Queen's University Belfast. The £2000 award is deducted from gross tuition fees upon enrolment in the subsequent academic year 2024-25.

The International Office Undergraduate Scholarship, Queen's Loyalty Scholarship, Queen's Family Scholarship and the Early Bird Reward are for your first year of study only.

The Vice Chancellor's International Attainment Scholarship is paid for all years of your programme.

Terms and conditions apply.

Only international students paying the full international tuition fee rate are eligible for International Office scholarships.

You must have received an offer of a place to study at the University which you have firmly accepted, completed the online application form and submitted a short video by the deadline.

Undergraduate - Apply here

The selection of our Vice Chancellor's International Attainment Scholars is a competitive process and not all applications will be successful. 

Please do not send references, academic transcripts or any form of supporting documentation with your scholarship application.

Any documents will be deleted and will not be taken into consideration by the panel.

Your application should consist of your online application form and video submission.

Your video should outline why you want to come and study at Queen's University Belfast and how you believe your programme of choice will benefit you in your future career aspirations. Please keep to the subject matter, we do not require a list of your academic achievements.

 Guidelines 

 The criteria is not for a high quality video production, you will be judged on the content and the quality of presentation skills only.

• Please ensure that your video is clearly audible. 
• If we cannot open your video your submission will not be accepted.
• Please ensure that you clearly identify your submission by including your Queen's University Belfast application reference and your full name on the email which accompanies your video.
• Any videos that exceed the requested length of 2 minutes will NOT be considered.

Please ensure that your video can be opened and viewed by us using VLC media player. VLC media player supports many video file formats, and we would recommend MP4.

We would suggest using the WeTransfer programme to send your video and would ask that you test it to ensure that it can be opened, before sending.

The Vice Chancellor's International Attainment Scholarship offers:

4 awards for undergraduate students.

A panel of academics from all 3 faculties sit in July to determine which applications are successful.

We contact the successful candidates by telephone in the first instance.

Please be aware we contact only the successful candidates. If you have not been contacted by the end of July you may assume you have been unsuccessful.