Newcastle University demonstrating its commitment to the Indian students has announced exclusive scholarships for India in conjunction with British Council under the GREAT scheme. Newcastle University is offering their GREAT Scholarship Scheme to five Indian students and invites graduate and post graduate students from India for a scholarship award of £5,000 payable towards the first year of tuition fees. The students need to meet the conditions of the offer for a place on one of the courses in Newcastle University.

In order to be eligible to apply for the scholarships the candidate must satisfy the following conditions:

For under graduate students:

• Must be a Indian national and have been assessed as international/overseas for fees purposes
• Must hold an Unconditional offer on any Undergraduate degree programme at Newcastle city campus
• Must intend to register to start your studies during the 2017-18 academic year
• Should be self-funded student and not in receipt of other University or external awards
• Must have achieved an overall of 80% in standard 12th OR AAB in A levels OR 36 IB points

For post graduate students:

• Must be a Indian national and have been assessed as international/overseas for fees purposes
• Must hold a Conditional or Unconditional offer on any master’s degree programme at Newcastle city campus
• Must intend to register to start your studies during the 2017-18 academic year
• Should be a self-funded student and not in receipt of other University or external awards
• Must have an average of 70% or above in your Bachelors degree.  If you are yet to complete your degree we will assess you on the basis of your results to date, providing you have achieved an average of 70% or above and you are expecting to maintain/ increase this in your final semester/year.  Students with CGPA scores can also apply if your percentage equivalence is 70% and above.

The candidates have to submit their application online before May 30^th, 2017 to qualify for the scholarship.

For more information, please contact:

Preety Bansal, County Manager India, Newcastle University, UK

Email: india@ncl.ac.uk

For further details, please visit:

http://www.ncl.ac.uk/undergraduate/finance/scholarships/great/

http://www.ncl.ac.uk/postgraduate/funding/sources/internationalnoneustudents/nugreatindia.html