ScottishPower International Master's Scholarship Programme 2024-25

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Key facts

  • Number of scholarships: 14 throughout the UK
  • Value: Full tuition fees and a monthly payment of £1,200
  • Opens: 15 February 2024
  • Deadline: 31 March 2024
  • Helps with: Tuition fees, Living costs, Equipment and study costs
  • Duration: 1 year

Summary

ScottishPower are launching a new call for Master's Scholarships for the 2024-2025 academic year! This programme, which is aimed at graduates and final-year students, aims to promote excellence in the training of new generations and foster the employability of young people in sectors of the future. 

ScottishPower will provide scholarships for the 2024-2025 academic year for postgraduate studies at universities in the United Kingdom in the following areas of knowledge:

  • Electrical / Mechanical / Civil / Electronic Engineering
  • Environmental Sciences
  • Climate Change
  • Sustainability / Offshore / Geosciences / Oceanography
  • Meteorology
  • Wind Power Engineering
  • Physics
  • Fluid Mechanics
  • Data / Cyber / Cyber Security / Telecoms

We are pleased that the University of Strathclyde has once again been listed as a trusted partner institution. However, please note that these scholarships are open to all ScottishPower partner institutions. The scholarships are neither administered nor awarded by University of Strathclyde.

At ScottishPower, the scholarship programmes aim to help train a new generation of professionals capable of driving the transformation towards a sustainable energy model and who have a desire to develop their career in the power industry. This is why ScottishPower presents its Scholarships for Master's Studies in the UK programme to support education of motivated people, providing them with experience that will give them access to employment in the industry.

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Eligibility

Through its International Master's Scholarship Programme ScottishPower are looking to develop a new generation of people with enthusiasm for learning, desire to innovate, and aspiration to transform the energy industry.

  • Applicants must be in possession of, or expect to receive, a Bachelor with Honours at a minimum 2:1 (or equivalent) or Master’s degree from a recognised university on submission of the application. If the applicant is still in the final year of the academic course 2023-2024, the grant will be contingent upon the applicant securing the university degree at the determined level at the end of the academic cycle in June/July 2024.
  • Applicants must follow the usual application procedure for the UK University they wish to attend. Applications submitted by students who have not submitted an application will be rejected during the selection process.  
  • Applicants may not receive any remuneration, wages or be in receipt of any scholarship, financial aid or other award of a similar nature from institutions and public or private foundations during the period that the scholarship is awarded for.  
  • Candidates who have previously been awarded a scholarship by ScottishPower, the ScottishPower Foundation or any of the other companies within the Iberdrola group are not eligible to apply.

Subject eligibility

Civil & environmental engineering, Computer science, Economics, Electronic & electrical engineering, Mathematics & statistics, Mechanical & aerospace engineering, Naval architecture ocean & marine engineering, Business, Management science, Civil engineering, Data analytics, Environmental engineering, Mechanical engineering, Naval architecture, Ocean engineering, Renewable energy, Software engineering, Science

Levels eligibility

Postgraduate Taught

Study modes eligibility

Full Time

Fee Status

Home (Scottish), England or N. Ireland or Rep. Ireland or Wales, International

Student type

Applicant

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Further information

The scholarship will cover the following:

  • Enrolment costs at the university in the United Kingdom.
  • £14,400 a year to cover per-diem and material expenses. This amount will be paid out in £1,200 monthly instalments.

The Scholarship will have a maximum duration of one calendar year from the beginning of the studies programme.

ScottishPower will also provide local support to the scholarship recipients where appropriate.

In return for the scholarship, ScottishPower are looking for each scholar to:

  • Promote career opportunities available within the company
  • Act as a STEM ambassador for the industry
  • Introduce future scholarship applicants to the scheme
  • Support any recruitment activities agreed on campus/virtually
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How to apply

Applications can be made online via the ScottishPower website.