Scholarship details
The Royal Holloway University of London offers Corky MvGuinness Scholarship Awards for Musicology for local and international students for the academic year of 2022-2023 to start their journey at one of the prestigious universities in the United Kingdom.
Corky McGuinness Scholarship Award
The scholarship is a tuition fee reduction with a total value of £4,000 and will be available to eligible new students with an international fee status in MMus Music. The scholarship aims to encourage local and international students to take the next step in furthering their passion and education.
The scholarship is created to commemorate the legacy of Rosamond “Corky” McGuinness who was an American Music Historian and a lecturer at the Royal Holloway College in 1969 and become a professor in Music History at the university.
Scholarship Provider: Royal Holloway University of London
About the Provider
The Royal Holloway University of London was laid out as Bedford College in 1849 and turned into a consolidation of Bedford College and Royal Holloway College in 1985. It is a public exploration college positioned 29th in the UK. It offers different scholarly degree programs, including Single Honors and Joint Honors’.
Royal Holloway is favored to be home to a portion of the world’s driving experts in science, human expression, the executives, financial aspects, and regulation. They consistently put resources into assets for their understudies and advance the positive effect they can accomplish as an exploration escalated college. While concentrating in London, you will have the potential chance to meet numerous experts from your course and picked region.
The university provides more opportunities to both local and international students to further their higher education with the help of financial aid, scholarships, and bursaries that will fit every student’s needs. At the university, the support and well-being of students are one of the priorities which includes employment and their future career. All courses offered by the university is one in the in-demand careers that will help them grow their skills and knowledge to be more prepared for the developments of their personal, educational, and career improvements.
Every student at the university can discover their new interest and enjoy the campus interactivity and exciting involvements that will help them build connections with other students all over the globe. The interactions in the campus community can help them discover more of their skills, knowledge, and leadership.
Scholarship Summary
- Academic Year: 2022-2023
- Applicant’s Nationality: Local and International
- Degree Level: Master’s Degree
- Field: Music
- Scholarship Value: £4,000
- Number of Awards: NA
- Duration: 1 year
- Scholarship Country: United Kingdom
- Renewable: Yes
- Offered Annually: Yes
Scholarship Eligibility
To be considered for the scholarship, students must meet the eligibility of the scholarship.
- Must be a full-time applying student in MMus Music.
- Must have a good academic rec words
- First-class honor degree or equivalent.
Application Process
Interested applicants must apply through an online portal provided by the Royal Holloway University of London, the online portal is where the students can complete their application forms and submit the required documents that will support their applications.
Guidelines on Application
As part of the application process the interested applicants are required to provide supporting documents outlined in 400 words which ought to include:
- scholastic accomplishments you are especially pleased with
- the explanation you have decided to apply for MMus Music and your future desires
- motivations behind why you are the deserving students to receive the scholarship and how this scholarship program would help in accomplishing your future objectives
- the scholarship impact would have on your schooling from a monetary viewpoint.
The statements provided will be decided on how successfully and convincingly you answer the above-mentioned.
The statements must not exceed the required word counts, exceeded statements will automatically be rejected. The applicants should transfer their latest grades record from your college degree. Any applications that are submitted without a transferred record will be dismissed.
All late and incomplete applications will not be considered and will be automatically rejected by the scholarship committee.
Required Documents
List of documents to support applications:
- Official transcript of records
- CV
- Personal Statements
- Certificates
- Passport copy
- Proof of English Language proficiency
- reference letter
- Work experience if any
- Portfolio
Kindly note that assuming you are an ongoing student at Royal Holloway the university would ask while making a Postgraduate application you do so utilizing your ongoing Royal Holloway email address.
You will be sent an email that will incorporate a connection to your Applicant Portal where you can set your password. In the event that you have not gotten an actuation interface, kindly make certain to really take a look at your spam prior to getting in contact with the university.
Scholarship Allocation
Applicants will be assessed based on their academic achievements, and providing a strong personal statement is a must. The personal statements will also be used to evaluate the student’s view on their persona, education, and scholarship motivation to further their education and fulfill the eligible courses offered fo the scholarship program. The students must be able to submit their recent academic merits during their undergraduate years.
Scholarship Total Value
£4,000 tuition fee reduction wil be awarded to the successful students, the tuition fee reduction can only be used in one year. The scholarship duration is only one year and the students can renew their applciation for the next academic year.
No additional awards can be given to the successful students, the awards will be automatically deducted from the tuition fee of the recipient of the award. The recipient of the award must read and agreed to the terms and conditions applied to the scholarship.
Scholarship deadline
All applications must be complete and submitted before July 11, 2022, at 11:59 pm UK time. The application outcome will be announced by July 26, 2022. All successful applicants will be notified.
The scholarship wil be offered annually by the Royal Holloway University of London.
