Hyundai Motor Group Scholarship 2026/2027 at SOAS University of London – YOA

Deadline: April 25, 2026

Applications are open for the Hyundai Motor Group Scholarship 2026/2027. Hyundai Motor Group is providing 5 scholarships supposed to nurture expertise from Africa at SOAS University of London.

These scholarships purpose to domesticate specialists for sustainable improvement in Africa and can proceed to ascertain lengthy-time period collaboration fashions for the following technology of Africa. The scholarships are designed to create significant change and empower college students to seek out options to world challenges.

Scholarship recipients might be invited to take part in numerous networking occasions and seminars hosted by the donor throughout and after their research. They may even be capable to take part in tutorial and networking actions as alumni of the Hyundai Motor Group Scholarship. This community and collaboration mannequin between Hyundai Motor Group and the students is designed to help this subsequent technology of changemakers past their research as they apply their experience to careers throughout the African continent.

Scholarship

• The worth of the 2026/27 grasp’s award is £27,730 from which tuition charges might be paid in full. If the schooling charge cost is much less, the difference might be supplied as a stipend. The PhD award will cowl tuition charges for 3 years of full-time study in addition to the schooling charge for writing up in a 4th 12 months. An annual stipend (£22,780 in 2026/27) might be supplied every year and paid in termly instalments.

Eligibility

• This scholarship is open to African nationals who’re ordinarily resident in Africa.
• This scholarship is open to International charge paying candidates solely.
• New admissions solely (programmes beginning in 2026/27).
• Applicants for the MA scholarship should possess or anticipate to be awarded a global equal to a primary-class honours diploma from a UK college. Applicants with a non-UK diploma have to be within the prime rank as evidenced by references and transcripts. Applicants with a 2:1 may additionally apply however won’t be given desire.
• Applicants for the MPhil/PhD scholarship should possess or anticipate to be awarded with a global equal to a grasp’s diploma with distinction from a UK college. Applicants with a non-UK grasp’s diploma have to be within the prime rank as evidenced by references and transcripts. Applicants with a advantage may additionally apply however won’t be given desire.
• Scholarship candidates should have utilized to SOAS however are usually not required to have acquired a proposal of admission by the scholarship deadline. An unconditional provide might want to have been acquired by the point the choice panel meets to debate scholarship functions.
• Applicants should meet the English language situation of their provide of admission to study at SOAS, if relevant. If your provide is conditional on English, please organize your English take a look at and make sure you meet the English necessities as quickly as potential.
• Note that this scholarship doesn’t cowl funding for pre-sessional programs.

Eligible Programmes

• Any full-time (1 12 months) masters diploma programme and any full-time analysis diploma programme starting within the 2026/27 tutorial 12 months
• Applicants to programs throughout the College of Development Studies, Economics and Finance and College of Law, Anthropology and Politics are notably inspired to apply.
• Part-time programs and a couple of-12 months grasp’s programs are usually not eligible.

Assessment Criteria

• Candidates might be assessed primarily based on their tutorial advantage by a variety panel.
• Candidates may even be evaluated on how the topic of their study is aligned with the imaginative and prescient of sustainable African transformation and progress.
• The evaluation of your application might be primarily based on the knowledge supplied in your scholarship application and in your on-line application for admission. The panel will overview particulars similar to diploma outcomes, private assertion and different related data.
• Candidates should submit a whole application of their programme as quickly as potential after which submit an application for this scholarship as a way to be thought-about. Note that full functions for admissions can take as much as 4 weeks to be thought-about by the division, though this period can fluctuate relying on the time of the 12 months. You must be ready to attend as much as 6 weeks in busy durations.
• Candidates might want to have an unconditional provide for his or her programme by the point the Scholarship Panel meet.
• Late or incomplete functions won’t be thought-about.

Application

Step one: apply in your programme

Step two: apply for the scholarship

Apply for the scholarship by 12 midday (UK native time) on 25 April 2026. You should apply for this scholarship by way of the admissions portal. You might want to have utilized for a course to get login credentials for this.

For extra data, go to Hyundai Motor Group Scholarship.