Published: 18 Jan 2024 530 views
The University of Birmingham is offering AI and Data Science Masters Scholarships in 2024-2025 for nine Masters programmes to upskill students from under-represented backgrounds to progress into the AI and Data Science workforce.
This will include over 100 students from under-represented groups, particularly women, Black and disabled students and those from low-socioeconomic backgrounds, who will each be supported through this scholarship program.
Scholarship funding will be prioritised for women, Black students, disabled students and those from lower socioeconomic backgrounds, to ensure that AI reflects the makeup of our society. Funding is intended only for those under-represented students who meet the eligibility criteria outlined below.
We are a member of the elite Russell Group of UK universities. Birmingham is the first Russell Group, and global top 100 university to establish a campus in Dubai. Birmingham has one of the largest international student communities in the UK, with over 10,000 students from 150 countries.
£10,000 Scholarships for Data Science and AI Masters courses
The award is part of £8.1 million funding from the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) and Office for Artificial Intelligence to encourage more women, Black students, disabled students, and students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds to study artificial intelligence (AI) and data science postgraduate programmes (see Eligibility criteria below for full details).
In addition to having applied for a place for a University of Birmingham Data Science or AI related Masters course, applicants will need to demonstrate that they are categorised under at least one of the 9 underrepresented groups as identified by the OfS.
Applications for scholarships will initially be reviewed using a points-based system. Priority for these awards will be given to applicants in the following categories:
They may also be available to:
Applicants who do not meet any of the criteria above will not be considered for a scholarship.
Students must be self-funding or applying for a Postgraduate Government Loan to pay your fees and not in receipt of any other financial support including but not limited to scholarships, awards, bursaries, sponsorship or any other funding.
The awards will be allocated on the basis of merit – simply meeting the eligibility criteria will not guarantee that an application is successful. We will adopt a gathered field approach where decisions on the allocation of all 100 awards will be considered by a single scholarship selection panel.
Selection will be determined by a University scholarship panel based on the following criteria:
All applications will be assessed and priority scoring will be given to criteria 1-3.
Scoring will prioritise:
Please view our website for the full terms and conditions of the scholarship.
To be considered for an award, applicants must, by the deadline, have done both of the following:
You should enter the application ID number that you were given during the application to your Masters programme.
The deadlines for applications to the scholarship for MSc Bioinformatics (Online) are:
For all other programmes, that commence from September 2024 onwards, the awards will be allocated in three rounds:
If you are unsuccessful in one round, your application will automatically be carried over to the next round: you do not need to re-apply.
For more details visit: University of Birmingham wevsite.
