The University of Edinburgh Sichuan Province Master’s Scholarships

Following the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, the University will offer two Master’s scholarships for students from the Sichuan Province undertaking an eligible postgraduate Master’s degree programme offered by the University of Edinburgh.

The scholarship will cover tuition fees and will be tenable for one academic session.

Eligibility:

The scholarship will be awarded to a Chinese citizen who is normally resident in the Sichuan Province, has resided there for a minimum of three years and who is accepted for admission on a full-time basis in one of the following postgraduate Master’s programmes of study:

College of Humanities and Social Science

• Master of Architecture
• Master of Business Administration (MBA)
• MSc Accounting and Finance
• MSc Advanced Architectural Design
• MSc Advanced Sustainable Design
• MSc Archaeology
• MSc Forensic Anthropology
• MSc Human Osteoarchaeology
• MSc Music in the Community

College of Science and Engineering

• MSc Environment Sustainability
• MSc GeoSciences for Subsurface, Exploration, Appraisal and Development
• MSc Global Environmental Change
• MSc Signal Processing and Communications
• MSc Structural Engineering and Mechanics
• MSc Sustainable Energy Systems
• MSc System Level Integration

College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine

• MSc Emerging and Neglected Infectious Diseases (Online programme)
• MSc Infectious Diseases by Research
• MSc International Animal Health (Online programme)
• MSc Pain Management
• MSc Public Health Research
• MVetSci
• MMedSci

Application Procedure

Applicants can download an application form in Rich Text Format (RTF) or PDF (which requires Adobe Acrobat Reader or request one to be sent to them from: 

The Scholarships and Student Finance Office
The University of Edinburgh
Old College
South Bridge
Edinburgh
EH8 9YL

E-mail: scholarships(AT)ed.ac.uk  
Telephone:+44 131 651 4070
Fax: +44 131 651 4066

A completed scholarship application form, together with a copy of your degree transcript and two academic references, should be received by the Scholarships and Student Finance Office by the closing date of 1 May 2009 in order to be considered for the scholarship.

Selection Procedure

The winners of the scholarship will be announced in late May 2009. 

Source: http://www.scholarships.ed.ac.uk/postgraduate/internat/sichuan.htm