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Tag: Funding your masters

  • Funding your studies: why you should apply for a postgraduate scholarship

    So you’ve received your offer for the postgraduate course you’ve applied for, but one question remains…how will you fund your studies? A postgraduate scholarship is the answer. Applying for scholarships…

  • Funding my Masters study: my experience

    I started my taught MA in Contemporary History and International Politics in September 2020. Now halfway through, I have found funding my Masters study to be challenging. Balancing self-funding alongside…

  • Being friends with your finances and funding your postgraduate degree

    Before beginning my year as a postgraduate, I was filled with excitement for the coming year. However, I was also slightly anxious on how I was going to make it…

  • Helpful tips on postgraduate fees, funding, and finance

    Helpful tips on postgraduate fees, funding, and finance

    Hi! I’m Katy and I’m currently doing an MA in English Literary Studies. I have had ups and downs regarding my finances over the last year. COVID-19 has definitely affected…

  • Returning to studying: financing a Masters

    I decided I was going to undertake a Masters course fulltime which meant leaving a job I really loved and a reliant income that I’d become attached to. Although I’d…

  • I need a dollar: funding PG studies

    I need a dollar: funding PG studies

    In terms of finance, the Masters year can feel like a squeeze. At undergrad level there were loads of schemes and reasonable loans. At PhD level, the majority of people…