The University of Edinburgh calls applications for the Desmond Tutu/Church of Scotland Masters Scholarship in the United Kingdom. This scholarship is for a student from Africa who is accepted on a full-time basis for a one year postgraduate Masters programme of study within the School of Divinity and who has the official endorsement from the General Secretary or Principal Clerk of their Church.

This scholarship was set up in 2009 to commemorate the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Divinity conferred by the University on the Most Reverend Desmond Tutu.

Award

The Desmond Tutu/Church of Scotland Masters Scholarship will cover

• Full overseas tuition fee
• Accommodation within a Church of Scotland flat within Edinburgh
• £500 per calendar month for living costs
• Visa costs
• One return airfare
• Insurance from Church of Scotland business travel, underwritten by Aviva.
• The award will be tenable for one academic year.

Eligibility

• The Desmond Tutu/Church of Scotland Masters Scholarship will be awarded to a student from Africa who is accepted on a full-time basis for a one year postgraduate Masters programme of study within the School of Divinity.
• Shortlisted candidates will require to have the official endorsement from the General Secretary or the Principal Clerk of their Church.

Participating Churches

Applicants must be a member of a Church of Scotland partner church in Africa. Eligible partner churches are:

• Evangelical Presbyterian Church, Ghana
• Presbyterian Church of Ghana
• Presbyterian Church of East Africa
• Synod of the Nile of the Evangelical Church of Egypt
• Church of Central Africa Presbyterian
• Igreja Evangelica de Cristo em Mocambique
• Presbyterian Church of Nigeria
• Presbyterian Church of South Sudan
• The Programme of Christian Muslim Relations in Africa’
• United Church of Zambia
• Uniting Presbyterian Church of Southern Africa

The University of Edinburgh 

The University of Edinburgh is a public university in Edinburgh, Scotland. With its establishment in 1582, the university is the sixth oldest university in the English-speaking world and one of Scotland’s ancient universities. Moreover, the university is the second most popular university in the UK by the volume of applications. Furthermore, it has affiliations with 23 Nobel Prize winners, 2 Turing Award winners, 1 Abel Prize winner, 1 Fields Medal winner, 2 Pulitzer Prize winners. Also, it has alumni including 3 signatories of the American declaration of independence, 9 heads of state, 2 currently-sitting UK Supreme Court Justices, and several Olympic gold medallists. Above all, the university is in 18th position in the QS World University Rankings.