Scholarships and Student Funding

University of Edinburgh Business School Doctoral Scholarship

A number of fully-funded scholarships are available for study within the Business School doctoral programmes.

Awards

The University of Edinburgh, established in 1583, is a world leading university, ranked 22nd in the world in the QS 2024 rankings. The University of Edinburgh Business School is accredited by the:

  • Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB)
  • EFMD Quality Improvement System (EQUIS)
  • Association of MBAs (AMBA)

This triple accreditation highlights the quality of teaching and excellence of research at the School.

The University of Edinburgh Business School places great value on Doctoral research in bringing fresh ideas, perspective and energy, critical in sustaining a vibrant research culture. The School is looking to recruit doctoral candidates with a real passion for research and great potential to carry out timely and highly impactful work. However, we understand that joining a PhD programme can be financially difficult. To ensure that highly achieving individuals from all nationalities and backgrounds have the opportunity to study with us, our School is offering a number fully-funded scholarships. Each scholarship will be awarded to a candidate looking to pursue their own research topic in one of our academic research areas.

Your proposed area of study must fall within one of our six broad research areas. While any topic that falls within the six broad research areas will be considered, applicants whose proposal aligns with highlighted areas of interest may be given preference.

Eligibility

The scholarships will be awarded to new applicants who have applied for admission to a Business School PhD programme of study at the University commencing in September 2024.

Applicants must meet the following requirements:

  1. Programme: All candidates must hold a conditional or unconditional offer onto one of our Doctoral programmes and expect to join in September 2024. While you can be awaiting an application outcome when applying for this scholarship only those with an offer can be considered. Therefore, please ensure all necessary documents have been uploaded to your programme application at least 10 working days before the scholarship deadline.
  2. Academic Standing: This normally requires a minimum qualification (or expected qualification if you are a current Masters student) of above-average academic achievement, typically 65% or above overall at the Masters level, with a distinction-level dissertation, or the overseas equivalent. For PhD Financial Technology, this requires a Masters with a distinction classification or the overseas equivalent. For applicants to our PhD with Integrated Study programmes, applicants who do not hold a Masters can be considered if they have a First at Undergraduate level, or the international equivalent, with a mark of 70 or more in the dissertation module.
  3. English Competency: You must meet the English requirements for the PhD programme. The most commonly approved certificate is an IELTS, for which the minimum accepted score is 7.0 overall with at least 6.0 in each section.

Please note that we will not generally consider candidates who have already obtained a PhD or equivalent qualification.

Criteria

Applicants applying to a Postgraduate programme of study longer than one year may apply but must be aware that this funding is for one year only, therefore, applicants are advised to budget accordingly.

Applying

Eligible applicants should complete an online scholarship application.

The scholarship deadline is 23:59 GMT 29th February 2024.

In order to gain access to the scholarship application system, applicants must have applied for admission to the University of Edinburgh.  Please note that, following the submission of an application for admission, it can take up to five working days for all system checks to be completed and for access to be granted.

The online scholarship application form is located in EUCLID and can be accessed via MyEd our web based information portal at https://www.myed.ed.ac.uk

When logging in to MyEd, you will need your University User Name and password.  If you require assistance, please go to http://www.ed.ac.uk/student-systems/support-guidance If you have not applied for admission, please go ahead and do this and you will receive your University User Name and password.

We strongly encourage applicants to reach out directly to potential advisors at the Business School by email to discuss the opportunity of doing a PhD under their supervision. Applicants should take care in ensure the academic staff they reach out to have similar research interests. To do this, candidates should browse staff profiles.

Notification

Candidates will be notified of the outcome of their application in late spring 2024. Please be aware that we also hold a reserve list. In the event that a successful candidate later declines their award, the award will be offered to the top candidate on the reserve list. Candidates will be notified if they are listed as a reserve candidate.

Contact 

Postgraduate Research Admissions:  phd@business-school.ed.ac.uk