Global Merit Awards at University of St. Andrews UK for 2022/2023

You are interested in pursuing an education in UK. We are glad to inform you that Global Merit Awards is currently ongoing scholarships at University of St. Andrews. In this article, we will explain more about the scholarship, its worth, eligibility and application process.

Global Merit Awards at University of St. Andrews is offered for Bachelor degree in the field of all subjects offered by the Universities. The scholarship is provided by University of St Andrews to students who have enrolled themselves into a bachelor level course at their university.

The University of St Andrews is a public university in St Andrews, Fife, Scotland. It is also the oldest of the four ancient universities of Scotland and, following Oxford and Cambridge universities, the third-oldest university in the English-speaking world.

The university was established in 1413 when the Avignon Antipope Benedict XIII issued a papal bull to a small founding group of Augustinian clergy. St Andrews was part of the Scottish Enlightenment during the 18th century with the universities of Glasgow, Edinburgh, and Aberdeen.

The University of St Andrews is made up of a variety of institutions which consist of three colleges — United College (a union of St Salvator’s and St Leonard’s Colleges), St Mary’s College, and St Leonard’s College, the last named being a non-statutory revival of St Leonard’s as a post-graduate society.

In the 2022 Good University Guide, the university was rated as the best university in the UK, the first university to ever top Oxford and Cambridge in British rankings. In 2021, the University of St Andrews had the highest entry standards for undergraduate admission in the UK, obtaining an average UCAS Entry Tariff of 208 points.

In the 2022 The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide, the University of St Andrews rated as the best university in the UK, as the first university to ever top Oxford and Cambridge in a British ranking. In a ranking conducted by The Guardian in 2009, the university placed 5th in the UK for national reputation behind Oxford, Cambridge, Imperial & LSE.

When size is taken into consideration, the University of St Andrews rates second in the world out of all small to medium-sized fully comprehensive universities (after Brown University) using benchmark from the QS Intelligence Unit in 2015.

The 2014 Research Excellence Framework rated the university 14th in the UK, and 2nd in Scotland, amongst multi-faculty institutions for the research quality (GPA) of its output profile. The University of St Andrews was rated 9th overall in The Sunday Times 10-year (1998–2007) average ranking of British universities based on constant league table performance, and is a member of the ‘Sutton 13’ of top rated Universities in the UK.

In 2017, the University of St Andrews was named as the university with the joint second highest graduate employment rate of any UK university (along with Warwick), with 97.7 per cent of its graduates in work or further study three and a half years after graduation.

The university is placed 7th in the UK (1st in Scotland) for the employability of its graduates as chosen by recruiters from the UK’s major companies with graduates expected to have the best graduate chances and highest starting salaries in Scotland as rated by The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2016 and 2017.

Worth of Global Merit Awards

The successful candidates of Global Merit Awards will receive about £5,000 from University of St Andrews.

Eligibility for Global Merit Awards

• To be qualified for Global Merit Awards, each candidate must have a full time offer letter for an undergraduate course from University of St Andrews.
• To be eligible for Global Merit Awards, you must be international students.
• You must exceed the admission requirements established by the university to be qualified for the scholarship.

How to Apply for Global Merit Awards

If you are interested in Global Merit Awards and you are eligible for the scholarship, visit the official website to apply. Please note that if due to school policy, you are unable to upload your references, please upload a document detailing the name and email address of your referee and ask them to email the reference to ugscholarships@st-andrews.ac.uk by the scholarship deadline.

Application Deadline for Global Merit Awards

The application deadline for the scholarship is February 1, 2022.

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