School of Law Postgraduate Fee Awards for Master's students
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Applications for 2022 are now closed and the 2023 deadline will be advised later this year. The following details are for reference only.
Exceptional full-time and part-time applicants can apply for a fee waiver (at the Home rate), awarded to two recipients per year. It is open to those studying the following degrees in the School of Law:
- LLM Commercial Law
- LLM Constitutional Politics, Law and Theory
- LLM/MA Criminal Law and Criminal Justice
- MSc Criminology (including Global Criminology pathway)
- LLM Environmental Law, Policy and Governance
- LLM/MA Human Rights
- LLM International Law and Development
- LLM International Intellectual Property Law
- LLM Law General
- LLM Law and New Technologies
- LLM/MSc Law and Political Economy
The LLM Qualifying Law Degree is not part of the Postgraduate Fee Awards.
ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA
- You must be a new student who, ideally, has not studied a taught postgraduate programme before.
- You must have at least an upper-second-class honours degree (2:1) at undergraduate level, or equivalent.
- You must have an outstanding academic record and show the potential to perform strongly on one of the master's degrees listed above.
- You can be a Home, EU or international student and you can be studying full-time or part-time.
VALUE OF AWARD
- The award will cover fees at the Home rate.
- International recipients of the award will be liable for the balance of their fees.
- There is no maintenance award.
HOW TO APPLY
- Submit a programme application for one of the eligible master's degrees listed above.
- After you have been offered a (conditional or unconditional) place, you can apply for the fee award using the application form.