The University of Aberdeen has announced £100,000 worth of new scholarships for science students from the new EU Accession States.
One hundred bursaries worth £1000 each have been released for full time students - classed as home/EU for the purpose of tuition fees - beginning a BSc degree in September 2007. Students from recently acceded Eastern European countries such as Romania, Bulgaria, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and Lithuania are all eligible.
"We are keen to attract the brightest students to Aberdeen," said Jenny Fernandes, Head of the International Office at the University of Aberdeen. "And our experience shows students from Eastern Europe to be excellent students who work hard and make a very positive contribution to our student population. We're delighted to now be able to offer these new undergraduate bursaries."
The scholarship announcement comes ahead of a trip to Poland by University staff members, who will visit both Warsaw and Gdansk this week to meet with students and answer questions about studying in the Granite City.
The University has also confirmed a range of innovative scholarships for home/EU students considering a postgraduate degree in the College of Life Sciences and Medicine. The new bursary package includes £1000 towards fees for one year of full-time postgraduate study, one months rent and a two month bus pass. Courses where the bursary package applies include MSc Occupational Medicine, MSc Clinical Pharmacology, MSc Human Nutrition and Metabolism, and MSC Biomedical Physics.
In addition, the College of Physical Sciences continues to offer home/EU students the opportunity to take advantage of funding from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. This amounts to the equivalent of the postgraduate tuition fee for EU students. Courses where the CTA package applies are MSc Safety Engineering, Reliability and Risk Management, MSc E-Science Technology, MSc E-Commerce Technology, MSc E-Health Technology, and MSc Energy Futures – Renewables.
"The University has a student population of around 14,000 and a large international community of students drawn from 120 different countries," added Mrs Fernandes. "By visiting Poland we hope to take another step towards enriching the diversity of our student body by building stronger ties with students from Eastern Europe.
"The University already has an excellent reputation for teaching quality and research, and we remain committed to freeing up significant funding to help students taking courses at both undergraduate and postgraduate level."
For further details on sources of University funding for postgraduate study visit:
Arts and Social Science: www.abdn.ac.uk/cass/graduate
Life Sciences and Medicine: www.abdn.ac.uk/clsm/graduateschool
Physical Science: www.cps.abdn.ac.uk/graduate-studies.php
Or for further information on the University of Aberdeen in general, visit www.abdn.ac.uk/sras