100 new Studentships and Bursaries At Kings College

The new studentships include the continuation of 25 fully-funded Graduate School Studentships (that would otherwise have come to an end in 2008), top-up awards for ORS applicants, and third year funding for US Marshall students who register for PhDs at King’s.

There will also be:

* Bursaries to encourage the retention of King’s students wishing to move from first degree to Masters level, or from Masters level to PhD level;

* 15 PhD and 20 Taught Masters King’s International Graduate Scholarships (KINGS) targeted at the US, India, Pakistan, China, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Singapore, Russia and selected countries in the Middle East and Africa;

* King’s International Partnership Scholarships for mobility between King’s and its key global partners;

* part-funding for certain newly-launched Masters programmes (‘Innovation Bursaries’) to selected students to help launch the courses. Schools will also be allocated other College Masters part-studentships;

* studentships designed to top-up government funding where countries manage their student migration centrally.

Attract students

Professor Vaughan Robinson, Director of the Graduate School says ‘This is a very exciting day for King’s and for the Graduate School. Potential graduate students considering King’s have always been impressed by our academic standards and our research expertise, but have sometimes believed that our competitors offer more funding opportunities. While this wasn’t always the case, we have responded. These new awards will do much to help us attract the very brightest students from around the world to King’s. That has to be good for our research culture and our research community.’

The package contains a carefully considered suite of student support designed to help the College achieve the goals established in the Strategic Plan.

‘At the core of the Plan is a desire to attract a growing share of the very best students globally to add even more vitality to the College’s research community and to improve further one of the metrics that Government will use to assess research excellence in future,’ continues Professor Vaughan.

Full details of all these awards will be found, as they become available, in the new College Funding database within the Graduate Study webpages.

Source: By King's College London