Scholarships and Student Funding

John Fisher High Performance (HPC) Scholarships

The John Fisher High Performance Computing (HPC) Masters Scholarship aims to support the development of the HPC workforce by providing the best students funding for a Masters in HPC or HPC with Data Science.

Award

We are offering at least 3 scholarships, for the sum of up to £15,200 [BM1] each.  These awards will be tenable for 1 academic year and will be :

  • Automatically deducted from your tuition fee.

Eligibility

These scholarships are offered to applicants for the full-time on-campus Masters (MSc) programmes in High Performance Computing and High Performance Computing with Data Science.

The scholarships will be awarded to new applicants who have applied for admission to a postgraduate taught Masters degree programme of study at the University commencing in September 2023. 

Applicants must have, or expect to obtain, the equivalent of a UK first class or 2:1 Honours degree at undergraduate level.

Criteria

The scholarships will be awarded on the basis of academic merit to applicants who are accepted for admission for the MSc in HPC or the MSc in HPC with Data Science.

Applicants are expected to demonstrate their motivation for studying HPC and explain how the MSc will enable them to meet their career goals, and how the scholarship will better enable them to do that.

Applying

Applications for the 2023-2024 academic session are no longer being accepted for this scholarship as the 26th June 2023 deadline has now passed.

 Frequently Asked Questions

Notification

We expect to notify all students of outcomes by mid July 2023.

Contact

EPCC Postgraduate Programmes Team

msc@epcc.ed.ac.uk

(+44/)0 1316 513398