GREAT Scholarships at the University of Essex

The University of Essex is offering six GREAT Scholarships, each worth £10,000, available for the 2023-24 academic year for students from:

• Bangladesh (one scholarship)
• Egypt (one scholarship)
• Ghana (one scholarship)
• India (one scholarship)
• Pakistan (one scholarship)
• Brunei (one scholarship)

The scholarships are available for any taught master's programme for all countries except Brunei.

For Brunei, the scholarship is for the following taught master's programmes:

• MA Environmental Futures with Climate Change
• MSc Environmental Futures with Climate Change
• MA Wild Writing: Literature, Landscape and the Environment
• MA International Development
• MSc Quantitative International Development
• MA Environment, Society & Culture
• MSc Marine Science & Sustainable Development

To find out more about the Brunei GREAT Scholarship, visit the University of Essex website.

Why Essex?

'Essex is a university where curiosity prevails, and where exploring new ways of thinking and pushing boundaries, isn’t just encouraged, it’s expected. It’s a truly international university, with students from more than 140 countries and a third of our students are from outside the UK - 12.8% are from the European Union and 21.5% are from overseas. We are Top 40 in the UK (The Complete University Guide 2023) and number one university in the UK for Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTPs), the flagship Innovate UK programme. We’re 76th in the global Times Higher Education Impact Rankings 2022 and ranked in the top 25 globally for three of the UN Sustainable Development Goals assessed. We're in the UK top 10 for research quality in four subjects (Grade Point Average, REF2021) and in the UK top 10 for research power in five subjects (Times Higher Education 2022). 88 per cent of our graduates are in employment or further study (Graduate Outcomes 2022).'

Other relevant websites

• Read GREAT scholar Ismet's story about studying at the University of Essex
• GREAT Scholarship - Brunei
• All GREAT Scholarships at the University of Essex