Meaning tuition fees, loans, grants etc.
2006-09-26 06:21:46 · 10 answers · asked by TB 5 in Education & Reference ➔ Higher Education (University +)
It depends on whether you are in science or humanities. Science Masters degees and business, actually, can be funded by companies and occassionally your employer. Then there are career development loans, that's how I funded mine 2 years ago. They are available from Barclays Bank or the Royal Bank of Scotland. Funding and scholarships from universities are getting rarer and rarer and are only awarded to people who have firsts and distinctions fromprevious study. Most awarding bodies, and universities now only fund PhDs. It's a tough world out there, but if you're determined you'll find a way.
2006-09-26 09:41:16 · answer #1 · answered by lianhua 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends entirely on the course. Research body grants and scholarships are provided to universities to help able students through certain courses, these may be whole or partial fees, or may include some help with living expenses too. The university or departmental website will be able to tell you if any course you are interested in has potential funding attached, and usually it is the department that must put you forward for the funding once you have made an application. You need to be getting in there early, though, as the funds are often allocated a good 6 months or so before the course starts.
There are also other sources of funding for certain groups of people or certain kinds of study which you can apply for yourself. Speak to the university and ask about them - they will have a directory or a database of donors and funders. You can also get yourself down to the library and ask for a book called 'the Directory of Grant-Making Trusts'. This is a huge book of charities, scholarships, schemes etc etc, and you can search it by category to see what help might be available.
Apart from that is the options already mentioned - Career Development Loans from a bank, and company sponsorship, although a company sponsor will normally want you to work for them and do the course part time. Good luck!
2006-09-27 04:50:57 · answer #2 · answered by rainy-h 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm starting a Master's this academic year. There are no student loans for postgraduates. None. It's not the same as for bachelors - I only wish it were. You can get a Career Development Loan, however. I think they hold the interest on this while you're studying. It's government-run through 3 banks. As for academic awards, well, I know individual colleges and universities offer a limited amount, but otherwise, there are national funding bodies which award on academic merit. If you do science then I expect there's sponsorship through industry, but, if like me, you're an arts student, the AHRC (Arts and Humanities Research Council) is the only body to offer funding. And they'll give you enough to pay your fees & live on.A word of warning though: they can only afford to help the 'truly exceptional' -a first is a minimum requirement. The only girl I knew this year who got AHRC funding was amazing - she'd come top in every unit she'd taken throughout her degree. Otherwise students work, borrow money, scrounge...that's what I'm having to do. Good luck!
2006-09-26 21:07:21 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I did a Masters degree as a mature student. Because I had no courses in the previous 5 years (and was unempoyed at the time) I was funded through a local county enterprise scheme, or it might have been a national scheme. You could ask at your local jobcentre or careers office and in the meantime I'll have a looksee too. I might be able to find out more tomorrow.
The funding covered all my tuition fees, my travelling expenses and gave me £10 a week on top of my benefits. It was a full-time one year course, and it was 10 years ago, so things might have changed.
Try here - its a link off the jobcentreplus page-
http://www.jobcentreplus.gov.uk/jcp/Aboutus/Usefullinks/Dev_011689.xml.html#Funding
2006-09-26 07:30:59 · answer #4 · answered by Tertia 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are ways of doing this, a company may sponser you through it in return for you working for them, this is most commen if you already work for the and the masters will benefit them directly. The forces may do a similar thing. I know the army do this. Some Universities fund students throgh Masters, it tends to be the top grade degree students who get this funding. Call the university direct and enquire.
2006-09-26 06:34:20 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
there may be some companies who give scholarships to needy students and if u pass with good marks in those papers they pay half the amount of ur tution fees depending to their schemes.
2006-09-26 06:35:07 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it's the same as for bachelors. student loans are student loans.
2006-09-26 06:43:26 · answer #7 · answered by shiara_blade 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
student loans or sponsorship
2006-09-26 06:29:25 · answer #8 · answered by dianafpacker 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
nup, if u do, let me know, ive done my masters, waanna do further. im in leeds, wanna meet up with me ?
2006-09-26 06:30:39 · answer #9 · answered by tariq k 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
are you in scotland or england
2006-09-26 06:24:10 · answer #10 · answered by sexyass 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋