Fees and funding
Find out about available funding, and how much it will cost to study your chosen Global Challenges degree.
The MSc in Global Challenges is awarded on successful completion of all three Postgraduate Certificates; the total fee is therefore the sum of all three certificates.
The same fee applies to both EU and Overseas students.
Find your tuition fee
Find tuition fee costs for each programme on our degree finder pages:
- MSc Global Challenges tuition fees
- PgCert Global Development Challenges tuition fees
- PgCert Global Environment Challenges tuition fees
- PgCert Global Health Challenges tuition fees
Alumni discount
A 10% discount is available to graduates of the University and alumni of the university's visiting undergraduate scheme. For details, see here:
Tuition fee Alumni Scholarships
Fee policy
For further information on fees, read the University's tuition fee policy:
Fee payment
Fees can be paid in instalments. For details of how to pay, see here:
The University offers a total of six scholarships for a number of specific online, distance learning Masters, including the MSc in Global Challenges (not the PG Certificates). This is open to students from selected countries and is based on academic merit.
The closing date is several months before the start of the programme, and you must have received an unconditional offer of a place on the MSc before you apply for the scholarship.
For details of the Edinburgh Global Online Distance Learning Master's Scholarship, see here:
Online distance learning scholarship
For information about other scholarships for postgraduate study, some of which may be relevant to the global challenges programmes, see here:
Some students are supported in their studies by their employers with study time and/or contribution towards fees.
If you are seeking support from your employer you will probably need to demonstrate how the programme will contribute to your professional development in your current role. You will find the following pages for each programme useful to build a 'business case' for support from your employer:
- The 'Approach' pages set the understanding, knowledge and skills each programme aims to develop.
- The 'Course description' pages set out the capacities each individual course aims to develop.
If your employer has a policy of supporting continuing professional development, and may be willing to add these programmes to their approved list, they should contact the programme director for further information.