Informatics scholarships and prizes
Prizes, undergraduate scholarships and other funding opportunities are available.
Prizes
Barclays Capital
The Barclays Capital Prize is awarded to the best overall student in Computer Science Junior Honours class.
British Computer Society Prize
The British Computer Society (BCS) Prize is awarded for top performance in the Professional Issues course, taught in the third year. The prize is sponsored by the British Computer Society.
Citigroup Prizes
A number of prizes are awarded to the best third year System Design Group Project (Computer Science). These prizes are sponsored by Citigroup.
Siobhan Clarke and Family
The Kevin Clarke Memorial Prize was established in 1993 in memory of Kevin Clarke, and is awarded to the best final year student for first class performance in Computer Science and Mathematics.
Freescale Prize
The Freescale Prize is awarded to the best third year System Design Group Robot.
The Google Prize is awarded for top performance in the CS or SE Individual Practical course, taught in the third year.
Real Time Engineering
The Real Time Engineering prize is awarded to the top performing student in the Artificial Intelligence Large Practical, taught in the third year.
Jim Howe Prizes
Two prizes are awarded by the Jim Howe Trust Fund: The Howe Undergraduate Prize for the best Artificial Intelligence final year student and the Howe Masters Prize awarded to the best student in MSc Artificial Intelligence.
Microsoft Prize
The Microsoft Prize is awarded to the best Computer Science UG4 Project.
Sidney Michaelson Prize
The Sidney Michaelson Prize was established in 1991 in memory of Sidney Michaelson and is awarded to the most deserving student. This prize is sponsored by Sidney Michaelson and family.
Xerox Prize
A prize is awarded to the best dissertation by a student in MSc Artificial Intelligence. The prize is sponsored by Zerox.
Undergraduate Scholarships
We currently offer two scholarships starting in the first year of study.
Award details
A scholar will receive around £1,000 per annum (some companies offer more, some slightly less), and the scholar may be offered a paid work placement over the summer between the third and fouth years of study.
When you graduate the awarding company may offer you a job. You are not obliged to accept it.
Sponsors
Applying
The first step in applying for a scholarship is to apply to study Informatics at Edinburgh through the UCAS system.
If your first examinations results are good you will be automatically selected and invited to apply for a scholarship.
We will then forward your CV and exam results to the sponsoring company and you will be invited to an interview.
Following the interview, the company will write to you to let you know whether your application has been successful or not.
This article was published on Jun 14, 2010