English and Spanish & Latin American Studies (5 years), MA

English and Spanish & Latin American Studies (5 years), MA

Introduction

English and Spanish & Latin American Studies at Aberdeen gives you all the advantages of the UK’s second top research hub for English literature, language and creative writing. You will study this programme within an international context through top-quality teaching of the Spanish language and the literature, history and cultures of Spain and Latin America. This subject combination is ideal preparation for a career across the creative arts and media.

Study Information

At a Glance

Learning Mode
On Campus Learning
Degree Qualification
MA
Duration
60 months
Study Mode
Full Time
Start Month
September
UCAS Code
QR34

Aberdeen is a leading centre for the study of literature, language and creative writing, rated second in the UK for its research output. You will study poetry and prose through the dynamic relationship between author, reader and literary text, covering every period from Chaucer to contemporary English, Scottish, Irish, European and American writing and the cultural and critical impact of powerful and controversial modern works. You will be inspired by enthusiastic teachers and researchers, themselves acclaimed authors and poets and be encouraged to develop your own creative writing skills.

Aberdeen is one of the most dynamic places to study and research the Spanish language and the cultural frameworks in countries where it is spoken. You will be equipped with the skills to communicate in a global language, spoken by 350 million native Spanish speakers in 19 Latin American states, Spain, and increasingly in the US. You will also study historical, literary and cultural texts, films and visual culture.

As an integral part of your 5-year programme, you will spend the whole of year three taking your language and cultural skills to a very high level as a Teaching Assistant or visiting student in a Spanish-speaking country.

You will graduate well prepared for a wide range of careers including across the arts, publishing, media, with the international dimension opening opportunities in business, international organisations and development, tourism and many other options.

What You'll Study

Year 1

Compulsory Courses

Academic Writing for Language & Literature (AW1008)

This compulsory evaluation is designed to find out if your academic writing is of a sufficient standard to enable you to succeed at university and, if you need it, to provide support to improve. It is completed on-line via MyAberdeen with clear instructions to guide you through it. If you pass the evaluation at the first assessment it will not take much of your time. If you do not, you will be provided with resources to help you improve. This evaluation does not carry credits but if you do not complete it this will be recorded on your degree transcript.

Getting Started at the University of Aberdeen (PD1002)

This course, which is prescribed for level 1 undergraduate students (and articulating students who are in their first year at the University), is studied entirely online, takes approximately 5-6 hours to complete and can be taken in one sitting, or spread across a number of weeks.

Topics include orientation overview, equality and diversity, health, safety and cyber security and how to make the most of your time at university in relation to careers and employability.

Successful completion of this course will be recorded on your Enhanced Transcript as ‘Achieved’.

Acts of Reading (EL1009)

15 Credit Points

This course introduces students to the study of English by exploring the dynamic relationship between author, reader and text in a series of classic works of fiction and poetry. It covers a broad historical range (from Folk Tales and ballads to 21st century postmodernity) and offers a basic grounding in key elements of literary theory, literary history and the varieties of literary form.

Optional Courses

Select ONE OR BOTH of the following:

  • Controversial Classics (EL1513) AND/OR Rethinking Reading (EL1536)

Also, select ONE of the following options:

    Beginners:

    • Spanish Language 1 (SP1027)
    • Spanish Language 2 (SP1528)

      Intermediate:

      • Spanish Language 2 (SP1028)
      • Spanish Language 3 (SP2525)

      Advanced:

      • Spanish Language 3 (SP2525)

      Plus, select ONE OR BOTH of the following:

      • Encountering the Other in Iberia and the Americas (SP1038)
      • Latin America: A Cultural History (SP1536)

      Plus further courses of choice to make up 120 credit points.

      Spanish Language 1 (SP1027)

      15 Credit Points

      This is a fast-paced and intensive language course for students with very little or no previous knowledge of Spanish who have been allocated onto this course by our diagnostic test. It is aimed at students intending to pursue an honours (single or joint) degree in Spanish and Latin American Studies but is also suitable for students on other degree programmes.

      Spanish Language 2 (SP1528)

      15 Credit Points

      This is a fast-paced language course for students with some previous knowledge of Spanish who have been allocated onto this course by our diagnostic test. It is aimed at students intending to pursue an honours (single or joint) degree in Spanish and Latin American Studies but is also suitable for students on other degree programmes.

      Spanish Language 2 (SP1028)

      15 Credit Points

      This is a fast-paced language course for students with some previous knowledge of Spanish who have been allocated onto this course by our diagnostic test. It is aimed at students intending to pursue an honours (single or joint) degree in Spanish and Latin American Studies but is also suitable for students on other degree programmes.

      Spanish Language 3 (SP2525)

      15 Credit Points

      This course follows Spanish Language 2 or can be taken by students who have the required level of Spanish as determined by the diagnostic test (see below).

      Controversial Classics (EL1513)

      15 Credit Points

      Literature can provoke, offend and disturb as well as entertain. This course considers some of the most powerful and controversial works of modern literature. It examines the circumstances of publication, the nature of the controversy, and the cultural and critical impact of each work. The course shows how poems, plays and novels can raise searching questions about national, racial and personal identity, and looks at the methods used by writers to challenge their readers, as well the responses of readers to such challenges.

      Rethinking Reading (EL1536)

      15 Credit Points

      'Rethinking Reading' complements the module ‘Acts of Reading’. Intended primarily for students with degree intentions in English, this course introduces key areas in critical theory that inform the current work of staff at Aberdeen. It asks students to consider the history of English studies and its relationship to colonialism, and how this impacts on conceptions of literature and authorship, alongside topics such as gender and sexuality, and genre. Through a series of modules, the course introduces each area of theory alongside a literary text used as a case study. The course supports students in learning to read and use critical theory in your work, incorporating reflective learning and a practical focus on the techniques involved in critical writing.

      Year 2

      Compulsory Courses

      Encounters with Shakespeare (EL2011)

      30 Credit Points

      So you think you know Shakespeare? This course invites you to think again. Studying a range of plays we get behind the mythology of Shakespeare, and rediscover the dynamic inventiveness of the Elizabethan theatre. Shakespeare and his contemporaries were the principal players in a period of literary experimentation that reinvented the possibilities of literature. Encounters with Shakespeare is your chance to find out more.

      The Tragedy of Knowledge (EL2512)

      30 Credit Points

      This course traces the use of key Western myths from antiquity to the present to examine the way knowledge is often presented as both dangerous and compelling. As well as introducing students to a range of historical, social, and formal variations on the theme of knowledge, the course also highlights the role of storytelling and adaptation in the formation of knowledge and understanding.

      Optional Courses

      Select ONE of the following options:

        Beginners:

        • Spanish Language 3 (SP2025)
        • Spanish Language 4 (SP2526)

        Intermediate/Advanced:

        • Spanish Language 4 (SP2026)
        • Spanish Language 5 (SP2531)

        Also, select ONE OR BOTH of the following:

        • Rebels, Outsiders and Conformists (SP2540)
        • Latin America: Texts and Contexts (SP2036)

        Plus further courses of choice to make up 120 credit points.

          Spanish Language 3 (SP2025)

          15 Credit Points

          This course follows Spanish Language 2 or can be taken by students who have the required level of Spanish as determined by the diagnostic test (see below).

          Spanish Language 4 (SP2526)

          15 Credit Points

          This course aims to prepare intending Honours students of Spanish and Latin American Studies for their compulsory period abroad in a Spanish-speaking country.

          The course will develop further Spanish language skills, both receptive and productive. Classes on grammatical and linguistic analysis will contribute to the development of both sets of skills. In addition students will complete a structured self learning programme of audio-visual study and grammatical reinforcement study.

          Spanish Language 4 (SP2026)

          15 Credit Points

          This course aims to prepare intending Honours students of Spanish and Latin American Studies for their compulsory period abroad in a Spanish-speaking country.

          The course will develop further Spanish language skills, both receptive and productive. Classes on grammatical and linguistic analysis will contribute to the development of both sets of skills. In addition students will complete a structured self learning programme of audio-visual study and grammatical reinforcement study.

          Spanish Language 5 (SP2531)

          15 Credit Points

          This course follows Spanish Language 4 and aims to prepare non beginners intending Honours students of Spanish and Latin American Studies for their compulsory period abroad in a Spanish-speaking country.

          The course will develop further Spanish language skills, expanding on the vocabulary and introducing formal documents and letters. Classes on grammatical and linguistic analysis will contribute to the development of both sets of skills. In addition students will complete a structured self learning programme of vocabulary and grammatical reinforcement study.

          Rebels, Outsiders and Conformists (SP2540)

          15 Credit Points

          The course will introduce students to several key texts from Spain. It will also introduce a key question in contemporary literary and film analysis: how texts may reinforce or challenge the social structures that underlie local and national communities. To this end we will study plays, novels and films that have had a broad impact in the Spanish-speaking world and beyond, investigating how they work to cement the cultural values that bring communities together or, on the contrary, lead readers to question and rebel against prevailing social norms.

          Latin America: Texts and Contexts (SP2036)

          15 Credit Points

          This course uses texts, which can include plays, films, novels, music, letters and an etiquette guide, to understand issues, concerns and themes in Latin American history. The course is organised chronologically and each week classes focus on texts from a particular country as a means to discuss bigger questions, such as how to make a new nation after three hundred years of colonial rule and a decade of warfare, how to demonstrate your honourability in an anonymous city and what cultural models are the best source of inspiration. The course also focuses on 'context' shared throughout Latin America.

          Year 3

          Compulsory Courses

          Residence Abroad Project (SP30AB)

          15 Credit Points

          The aim of the Residence Abroad Project is to develop an in-depth understanding of a specific aspect (anthropological, political or cultural) connected with one of the Spanish and Latin American countries in which students are staying. Students are expected to study a topic in its socio-and to complete a report in Spanish of c. 2000-2500 words.

          Year 4

          Compulsory Courses

          Spanish Language 6 (SP30A3)

          15 Credit Points

          This is a core prescribed course open only to Junior Honours Spanish and Latin American Studies students and a selected range of other programmes at the appropriate level. This course aims to enable you to identify and use, accurately, fluently, and with an appropriate level of sophistication, a range of vocabulary and linguistic registers at advanced level.

          Optional Courses

          Select ONE course from EACH of the following categories:

          Medieval/Renaissance Literature

          • EL30CP: Page and Stage: Renaissance Writings 1500-1640
          • EL35DQ: Knights, Virgins and Viragos: Chaucer and Medieval Writing

          Romantic/Victorian Literature

          • EL30XR: Romanticism
          • EL30VC: Fallen Women and Self-Made Men
          • EL35VB: Bildungsroman to Alien Invasion
          • EL30SB: Britain and the 19th Century World
          • EL35QA: Sympathy for the Devil: Scottish Short Stories

          Contemporary/Modern Literature

          • EL35KN: Haunted Texts
          • EL30FF: Modernism: Make it New
          • EL30RD: American Voices: Self and Society,1850-1930
          • EL30WC: Queer Times
          • EL35UT: Art and Atrocity: Representations of Violence and Trauma
          • EL35UT: Art and Atrocity: Representations of Violence and Trauma
          • EL35ZF: Images Adequate to Our Predicament: Art for the Anthropocene

          Plus ONE course from the following:

          • EL30YB: Creative Writing: Creativity and Craft
          • CE301C: Celtic Encounters: The Gaelic World in
            Irish and Scottish Literature

          Plus 45 credits of Level 3 Spanish and Latin American Studies courses and further courses of choice to make up 120 credit points.

          Page and Stage: Renaissance Writings 1500 - 1640 (EL30CP)

          30 Credit Points

          This course explores the poetry, drama and prose of a period often referred to as the golden age of English literature. A period which saw Shakespeare and his contemporaries produce innovative new literary works in which the language of desire took centre stage.

          Knights, Virgins and Viragos: Chaucer and Medieval Writing (EL35DQ)

          30 Credit Points

          Knights, Virgins, and Viragos offers an introduction to the variety of medieval literature and culture. Turning a critical eye on the role misconceptions of the Middle Ages play in present day white supremacy, the course highlights genres from medieval drama to life writing, with attention to the medieval history of race making and modern responses to the work of Chaucer in the poetry of Patience Agbabi.

          Modernism: Make IT New (EL30FF)

          30 Credit Points

          The early twentieth century was a time of great literary experimentation as literary modernists rose to the challenge to make it new. We will explore modernism’s stylistic experimentation while also considering the social contexts and changes that shaped this literature. The course will examine a range of writers, genres, movements and locations which prompt us to consider what, when and where was modernism.

          American Voices: Self and Society, 1850 - 1930 (EL30RD)

          30 Credit Points

          This course examines an important and diverse period in the development of American literature, lasting from the mid-nineteenth century until the 1930s. During the course we will be analysing works by a variety of American writers from this period in their historical, social and political contexts as well as considering the ways in which they pioneered innovative literary forms and techniques.

          Creative Writing: Creativity and Craft (EL30YB)

          30 Credit Points

          This course offers students the opportunity, through lectures and interactive workshops, to develop their understanding of, and practical skills in, the writing of prose fiction, poetry and creative non-fiction. Taught by widely published, award-winning writers, it provides a thorough, practice-based understanding of creative process and of the technical challenges involved in developing an original idea into a completed literary artefact, presented to a professional standard. It also contributes to students' future career potential, whether as ‘creative’ or other kinds of professional writers/communicators.

          Fallen Women and Self - Made Men (EL30VC)

          30 Credit Points

          The Victorian period is often seen as a time of sexual repression and rigid gender roles, in which men and women were expected to perform in accordance with established codes of behaviour that were based on assumptions about innate masculinity and femininity. While this perception of Victorian attitudes may be true to some extent, many Victorians were well aware of the dangers of gender stereotyping, and wrote fiction in order to interrogate and challenge these expectations. Focussing mainly on the novel, but including some poetry and drama, this module explores how Victorian writers engaged with gender stereotypes, and considers the literary tactics that authors used to re-examine, overthrow and sometimes reaffirm them. We will also consider how these stereotypes changed during the nineteenth century in response to public controversies and campaigns that kept questions of gender at the forefront of public consciousness. Figures such as the Fallen Woman, the Self-Made man and the Angel in the House will be explored in texts by authors including Emily Brontë, Christina Rossetti, Robert Louis Stevenson and Thomas Hardy.

          Haunted Texts (EL35KN)

          30 Credit Points

          This course offers an overview of a wide range of twentieth-century Scottish literature, focusing on themes of haunting, death, and place. Including novels, short stories, poetry, and drama, the course explores questions of the relationship between self and society, the legacy of the past, and the formation of gendered and regional identities. There are lots of ghosts.

          Art and Atrocity: Representations of Violence and Trauma (EL35UT)

          30 Credit Points

          How is the artist to respond when the virtual becomes the real and when words cannot carry the weight of trauma? How can an author avoid the accusations of voyeuristic prurience or crass opportunism when he or she attempts to re-present events of public violence? This multi-disciplinary course examines work from a wide range of modes, including fiction, poetry, film and graphic art, and looks at the difficulties of inscribing trauma and the ethics and praxis of remembrance. Key events covered include the Holocaust, the Sabra and Shatila massacre, 9-11, the Gulf War and the conflict in the Balkans.

          Bildungsroman to Alien Invasion (EL35VB)
          Images Adequate to Our Predicament: Art for the Anthropocene (EL35ZF)

          30 Credit Points

          Through the effects of technological progress, industrialisation, deforestation, mining, our dependence on fossil fuels and plastics, and the testing of nuclear weapons, humans have become geological agents – radically transforming the Earth System in ways that will leave a trace for millions of years to come. This realisation has come to be known as the ‘Anthropocene’ – the time of humans. The implications – materially, emotionally and intellectually – are vast and complex. How do writers and artists respond to this complexity? What role can literature, film and visual art play in our understanding of it? This course addresses these and other questions. By studying select works of literature, film and visual art from the last sixty years alongside critical, theoretical and scientific writing on the Anthropocene, can we identify those images that might be thought adequate to our predicament?

          Celtic Encounters: the Gaelic World in Irish and Scottish Literature (CE301C)

          30 Credit Points

          Celtic Encounters looks at the ways in which Irish and Scottish writers have reimagined texts of Celtic origin in the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries, from the Irish Literary Revival through the Scottish Literary Renaissance, to the present day. Writers have adapted Old Gaelic sagas and hero tales for modern consumption, reinvented themselves as latter-day bardic poets, and been inspired by the Celtic and Gaelic past to produce daringly modernist and experimental new work.

          Year 5

          Compulsory Courses

          Spanish Language 7 (SP40A5)

          30 Credit Points

          This is the final Spanish language course within the degree that will provide students with advanced comprehension and writing skills in general and specialised registers.

          Optional Courses

          Select ONE of the following dissertation options:

          • English Dissertation (EL4502)
          • Dissertation in Hispanic Studies (SP4039)

          Select further credit points from level 4 courses in English and Spanish and Latin American Studies to gain a total of 60 credits in each discipline.

          Dissertation in Spanish (SP4039)

          30 Credit Points

          This year-long course unit combines dissertation research with research methods training. The dissertation is a piece of extended independent research (8,000-10,000 words long), structured as a critical evaluation, analysis or argument, about a topic germane to Spanish and Latin American Studies. The topic is chosen by the student, in conjunction with the dissertation coordinator and an individual Departmental supervisor, both of whom approve the topic. Students are encouraged to design their topic building on their previous studies, especially honours courses. The dissertation offers a chance for students to carry out in-depth independent study in Spanish and Latin American Studies, and to acquire and develop valuable research skills. The course begins, in the first half session, with workshops on diverse research methods and the creation of peer support groups. The second half session includes structured meetings with the dissertation supervisor and meetings with the peer support group, as well as independent research and writing.

          English Dissertation (EL4502)

          30 Credit Points

          Students will have the opportunity to write a dissertation on a topic of their choosing within English literature.

          We will endeavour to make all course options available. However, these may be subject to change - see our Student Terms and Conditions page.

          How You'll Study

          Learning Methods

          • Individual Projects
          • Lectures
          • Research
          • Tutorials

          Assessment Methods

          Students are assessed by any combination of three assessment methods:

          • Coursework such as essays and reports completed throughout the course.
          • Practical assessments of the skills and competencies they learn on the course.
          • Written examinations at the end of each course.

          The exact mix of these methods differs between subject areas, years of study and individual courses.

          Honours projects are typically assessed on the basis of a written dissertation.

          Why Study English and Spanish & Latin American Studies?

          Why English

          • An international profile through major literary projects such as the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jane Austen and the Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels of Sir Walter Scott.
          • The WORD Centre for Creative Writing, promoting creative projects in fiction, non-fiction and collaborative mixed-media in all the languages of northeast Scotland (from Doric to Polish).
          • The spectacular, award-winning Sir Duncan Rice Library, home to literary treasures collected over 500 years, charting the power of the written word from ancient papyri and medieval manuscripts to contemporary e-books and other media.
          • Historic collections including rare printed books, the 12th century Aberdeen Bestiary, MacBean Stuart and Jacobite Collection, the novels of Sir Walter Scott, and an exceptional collection of Charles Dickens' first editions.
          • A packed campus programme of student and public events, exhibitions, seminars, invited speakers and the annual WayWORD Festival, welcoming internationally acclaimed authors to discuss literature, including European writers.
          • Research centres include the nationally recognised Centre for the Novel, the Centre for Modern Thought, and the Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies.

          Why Spanish & Latin American Studies

          • The opportunity to study visual culture, literature, history, politics and anthropology in relation to Spain and/or Latin America.
          • Special areas of research expertise include 20th century Spain, contemporary and historical Mexico, visual culture, gender studies, history of science in Latin America, and studies of citizenship and society.
          • Multicultural north-east Scotland, with many Spanish speakers working or studying in this region due to its role as a world centre for oil and gas.
          • The spectacular, award-winning Sir Duncan Rice Library, with top-class study facilities, state-of-the-art learning technology, and extensive Spanish and Latin American works to inspire your studies.
          • A packed campus programme of events, exhibitions, film showings, and the annual WayWORD literary festival which welcomes international figures, experts, writers and scientists to campus every spring, including authors writing in Spanish.

          Aberdeen Global Scholarship

          The University of Aberdeen is delighted to offer eligible self-funded international on-campus undergraduate students a £6,000 scholarship for every year of their programme.

          View the Aberdeen Global Scholarship

          Entry Requirements

          Qualifications

          The information below is provided as a guide only and does not guarantee entry to the University of Aberdeen.


          General Entry Requirements

          2024 Entry

          SQA Highers

          Standard: AABB

          Applicants who have achieved AABB (or better), are encouraged to apply and will be considered. Good performance in additional Highers/ Advanced Highers may be required.

          Minimum: BBB

          Applicants who have achieved BBB (or are on course to achieve this by the end of S5) are encouraged to apply and will be considered. Good performance in additional Highers/Advanced Highers will normally be required.

          Adjusted: BB

          Applicants who achieve BB over S4 and S5 and who meet one of the widening access criteria are guaranteed a conditional offer. Good performance in additional Highers/Advanced Highers will be required.

          More information on our definition of Standard, Minimum and Adjusted entry qualifications.

          A LEVELS

          Standard: BBB

          Minimum: BBC

          Adjusted: CCC

          More information on our definition of Standard, Minimum and Adjusted entry qualifications.

          International Baccalaureate

          32 points, including 5, 5, 5 at HL.

          Irish Leaving Certificate

          5H with 3 at H2 AND 2 at H3.

          Entry from College

          Advanced entry to this degree may be possible from some HNC/HND qualifications, please see www.abdn.ac.uk/study/articulation for more details.

          2025 Entry

          SQA Highers

          Standard: BBBB

          Applicants who have achieved BBBB (or better), are encouraged to apply and will be considered. Good performance in additional Highers/ Advanced Highers may be required.

          Minimum: BBC

          Applicants who have achieved BBC at Higher and meet one of the widening participation criteria above are encouraged to apply and are guaranteed an unconditional offer for MA, BSc and BEng degrees. 

          Adjusted: BB

          Applicants who have achieved BB at Higher, and who meet one of the widening participation criteria above are encouraged to apply and are guaranteed an adjusted conditional offer for MA, BSc and BEng degrees.

          We would expect to issue a conditional offer asking for one additional C grade at Higher. 

          Foundation Apprenticeship: One FA is equivalent to a Higher at A. It cannot replace any required subjects.

          More information on our definition of Standard, Minimum and Adjusted entry qualifications.

          A LEVELS

          Standard: BBC

          Minimum: BCC

          Adjusted: CCC

          More information on our definition of Standard, Minimum and Adjusted entry qualifications.

          International Baccalaureate

          32 points, including 5, 5, 5 at HL.

          Irish Leaving Certificate

          5H with 3 at H2 AND 2 at H3.

          Entry from College

          Advanced entry to this degree may be possible from some HNC/HND qualifications, please see www.abdn.ac.uk/study/articulation for more details.

          The information displayed in this section shows a shortened summary of our entry requirements. For more information, or for full entry requirements for Arts and Social Sciences degrees, see our detailed entry requirements section.


          English Language Requirements

          To study for an Undergraduate degree at the University of Aberdeen it is essential that you can speak, understand, read, and write English fluently. The minimum requirements for this degree are as follows:

          IELTS Academic:

          OVERALL - 6.0 with: Listening - 5.5; Reading - 5.5; Speaking - 5.5; Writing - 6.0

          TOEFL iBT:

          OVERALL - 78 with: Listening - 17; Reading - 18; Speaking - 20; Writing - 21

          PTE Academic:

          OVERALL - 59 with: Listening - 59; Reading - 59; Speaking - 59; Writing - 59

          Cambridge English B2 First, C1 Advanced or C2 Proficiency:

          OVERALL - 169 with: Listening - 162; Reading - 162; Speaking - 162; Writing - 169

          Read more about specific English Language requirements here.

          Fees and Funding

          You will be classified as one of the fee categories below.

          Fee information
          Fee category Cost
          RUK £9,250
          Tuition Fees for 2025/26 Academic Year
          EU / International students £20,800
          Tuition Fees for 2025/26 Academic Year
          Home Students £1,820
          Tuition Fees for 2025/26 Academic Year

          Financial support for your study year abroad

          We provide funding to students starting in 2021/22 on degrees with a compulsory period abroad at the same level as the Turing funding. This financial support can be used towards rent in your new city overseas, general living costs, or travelling to see more of your new home country. Students going abroad will continue to pay their normal rate of tuition fees with no increased charges or need to change tuition fee arrangements to the host university. For a full overview of how the tuition fees work, you can check this helpful funding table on our website.

          Additional Fees

          • In exceptional circumstances there may be additional fees associated with specialist courses, for example field trips. Any additional fees for a course can be found in our Catalogue of Courses.
          • For more information about tuition fees for this programme, including payment plans and our refund policy, please visit our Tuition Fees page.

          Scholarships and Funding

          UK Scholarship

          Students from England, Wales and Northern Ireland, who pay tuition fees may be eligible for specific scholarships allowing them to receive additional funding. These are designed to provide assistance to help students support themselves during their time at Aberdeen.

          Aberdeen Global Scholarship

          The University of Aberdeen is delighted to offer eligible self-funded international on-campus undergraduate students a £6,000 scholarship for every year of their programme. More about this funding opportunity.

          Funding Database

          View all funding options in our Funding Database.

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