Gaza-Palestine Postgraduate Taught Scholarship 2025

Applications are now open for the Gaza-Palestine Postgraduate Taught Scholarship 2025. They're pleased to offer one scholarship for a taught postgraduate student from Gaza in 2025.

Table of Content

• Summary
• Benefits
• Requirements
• Interview Process
• Application Deadline
• How To Apply

Summary

• Application DeadlineMay 27, 2025
• Study LevelMasters , PhD
• SponsorUniversity of Sheffield

Benefits

The 2025 scholarship covers the cost of tuition, accommodation in a single occupant en-suite room in University halls of residence and a maintenance award of £5,000. 

Requirements

To apply and be considered for the scholarship you must:

• Be a citizen of Gaza or having been a citizen of Gaza prior to the escalation of the conflict in October 2023.
• Be self-funding and classified as overseas for tuition fee purposes
• Hold a conditional or unconditional offer from the University of Sheffield before the application deadline to study a one year, full-time postgraduate taught masters course starting in September 2025

Selection Process

Applying for the scholarship is a competitive process and not all applications are successful; a panel of senior members of staff will select the strongest application.

The panel will be looking to see in particular if you have:

• Provided a clear rationale for applying for a postgraduate course at the University of Sheffield.
• Clearly articulated future ambitions; these goals relate to the postgraduate degree you have applied for, and how your learning will benefit others.
• You have relevant work or volunteering experience for the course you are applying for.

Points to note

• Distance learning and part-time students are not eligible for the scholarship.
• The scholarship cannot be awarded in conjunction with any other scholarships, discounts or rewards from the University.
• Full terms and conditions will be sent to the successful applicant when the award is confirmed.
• Applicants who left Gaza because of the escalation of the conflict in October 2023 are eligible to apply but will need to evidence that they were resident in Gaza immediately prior to this time. 

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Application Deadline

May 27, 2025

How To Apply

Are you qualified and interested in this opportunity? Kindly go to University of Sheffield on finance.ssid.shef.ac.uk to apply

To access the application form you will need to hold an offer for an eligible postgraduate course starting at the University in September 2025 and use your MUSE for offer holders login. It may take up to 48 hours to be able to access the form after you have received your offer.

If you haven't applied for a course yet you can find out how to do this on our 'How to apply - Postgraduate Taught' web page.

For more details, visit University of Sheffield Scholarship webpage