The University of Edinburgh Mastercard Foundation on-campus and online postgraduate Scholars Program 2027/2028 for young Africans (Fully Funded)

Application Deadline: 26 October 2026, 5pm

Applications at the moment are open for the 2027/2028 University of Edinburgh Mastercard Foundation on-campus and online postgraduate Scholars Program.
Scholars will pursue a one yr full-time postgraduate taught Master’s diploma on the University of Edinburgh, learning in individual and changing into part of the University’s tutorial and pupil neighborhood. Scholars reside and study in Edinburgh and obtain scholarship assist to allow them to finish their diploma.

Eligibility standards 

• If making use of for the online Postgraduate Diploma: Applicants can both have an undergraduate or Masters diploma from an African college (supplied they may graduate from both diploma by nineteenth November 2026). If you may have a Masters diploma, our admissions workforce will evaluate your first diploma (undergraduate) to fulfill the postgraduate diploma entry requirement. The Program will evaluate your Masters diploma transcripts to substantiate your college’s commencement date and location.
• Applicants will have confronted important limitations to training and of their early profession (social, monetary, private, sensible or health-related).
• Applicants should have graduated from an undergraduate study and should have a level certificates and official remaining transcript to add alongside their application by 19 November 2026.
• Applicants should be residents and residents or maintain refugee standing in an African nation.
• Applicants should show a observe report of management and service inside their neighborhood.
• Applicants should show expertise, or at the very least ambition, in making a significant impression in addressing the local weather disaster
• Applicants should be 35 or underneath the yr the programme commences. Therefore, for the 2027/28 tutorial yr, we settle for purposes from these born on or after 1 January 1992. Anyone born in 1991 and prior is just not eligible.
• If making use of for a Masters programme: Applicants mustn’t have beforehand accomplished a postgraduate diploma and shouldn’t be enrolled (or making use of to enrol) at a separate college while on the Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program scholarship.

On-campus scholarship offers

The on-campus scholarship offers:

• full accepted tuition, lodging, journey, dwelling price stipend and study supplies
• a local weather management programme to encourage and assist students in making change of their communities and international locations
• participation within the Climate Enterprise School, an intensive week-long programme of coaching in sustainable entrepreneurship and innovation
• extra assist to students with disabilities primarily based on an evaluation of wants
• transitions assist

On-campus diploma programmes

This is a one-year postgraduate on-campus scholarship for the next programmes solely. 

Please word that the on-campus diploma programmes listed below are topic to vary. Please check usually for the newest updates.

• Food Security
• Sustainable Energy Systems
• Entrepreneurship and Innovation
• Data, Inequality and Society
• Operational Research
• Environmental Sustainability
• Climate Change Finance and Investment
• Environment and Development
• International Development
• Public Health, Master of MPH

Online postgraduate diploma

• Postgraduate diplomas are aimed toward those that are contemplating a possible change of their careers and are usually extra vocational.
• Candidates with both an undergraduate or Master’s diploma from an African college are equally capable of apply (supplied they may graduate from both diploma and present their diploma certificates and transcripts by the application deadline).

The online scholarship offers

• transitions assist
• full accepted tuition charges; students is not going to pay for any part of the tutoring charges
• a tutorial stipend to permit for entry to a laptop computer and high-quality web
• the chance to attend an in-person gathering
• participation in actions as part of the broader Climate Leadership Programme on the University of Edinburgh, together with common online workshops, online teaching and assist
• participation within the Climate Enterprise School, an intensive week-long programme of coaching in sustainable entrepreneurship and innovation
• a devoted Online Coordinator
• extra assist for Scholars with disabilities primarily based on an evaluation of wants

Online diploma programmes

• International Development (Masters route solely)
• Global Food Security and Nutrition (Masters or Diploma)
• Climate Change Management (Masters route solely)
• One Health (Masters or Diploma)
• Social Justice and Community Action (Masters or Diploma)
• Biodiversity, Wildlife and Ecosystem Health (Masters or Diploma)
• Global Health and Infectious Diseases (Masters or Diploma)
• Data-Driven Breeding and Genetics (Masters or Diploma)
• Digital Education (Masters or Diploma)
• Data Science Technologies (Masters route solely)
• Family Medicine (MFM) (Masters route solely)
• Conservation Medicine (Masters or Diploma)
• Climate Leadership Programme

Application Timeline

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the University of Edinburgh Mastercard Foundation on-campus and online postgraduate Scholars Program