King’s Santander Masters Scholarships

Eligibility criteria

• Open to the following nationalities
  • Venezuela
  • Uruguay
  • Spain
  • Puerto Rico
  • Portugal
  • Peru
  • Mexico
  • Colombia
  • Chile
  • Brazil
  • Argentina
• Awards are for study on any full-time one-year Masters programme at King’s. Applicants will be expected to meet the College’s usual requirements re language proficiency and the quality of the first degree (namely a 2i or 1st from a research-intensive University). Students who fail to complete, or fail their course will be expected to repay the full sum to King’s for re-use as another Scholarship.
• Applicable subjects
  • All Subjects

Application details

Applications may be submitted
from 09-Nov-2009 until 01-Mar-2010

Information about the funding
King’s College London and Abbey National plc, the UK subsidiary of Banco Santander, have signed a three-year agreement to set up scholarships and support research and international collaboration in the area of Iberian and Latin-American Studies. The agreement is designed to provide an improved level of support for students and researchers, allowing the development of new educational and research projects under the ‘Santander Universities’ Global Division banner.

The funding will support: bursaries for students from Iberia or Latin America; funds for King’s students studying in Iberia or Latin America as part of a King’s degree, and support for a research fellow in Brazilian Studies.

Abbey-Santander Scholarships offer funds to students wishing to undertake a one-year full-time Taught Masters Programme at King’s College London. These funds will be made available to students from the regions of the world specified by Banco Santander, as listed above.

Four Santander Scholarship awards will be offered.

Value of award
£5000

Application procedure
Applicants must complete and submit the following documentation, as required, all by the deadline of 17.00GMT, 01 March 2010. Note that the deadline is absolute and materials received after this specified time and date will not be accepted and the applicant will be considered ineligible.

The following material should be completed and submitted to the Graduate School at graduateschool@kcl.ac.uk:

~ A Graduate School Funding Coversheet(GSF-CS)
~ A Graduate School Funding Personal Statement (GSF-PS)

The following material must be completed and submitted via the online admissions portal http://www.kcl.ac.uk/graduate/apply/ *:

~ Admissions Application to include Academic Transcripts

*Note to applicants who had previously applied for and were granted admissions but had deferred to 2010/11: You will not be required to submit another admissions application form and transcripts as these should already be available on file.

APPLICATION MATERIAL AND FULL GUIDANCE MATERIAL ARE DOWNLOADABLE VIA THE WEBLINK AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS PAGE - PLEASE CLICK ON ‘ABBEY SANTANDER SCHOLARSHIPS’ UNDER FUNDING PROVIDER.

Contact details

Contact at King's
Research & Graduate School Support Section
Email: graduateschool@kcl.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 3376/3389
Fax: +44 (0)20 7848 3366

Funding provider
Abbey Santander Scholarships