Scholarships at Heriot-Watt University Dubai

A 20% discount is applicable to postgraduate taught courses across all of our global campuses for all Heriot-Watt alumni who have previously been registered for one year or more on a Heriot-Watt degree programme. This discount is also applicable to those who would like to study their postgraduate taught degree with Heriot-Watt Online.

Family Scholarships of AED 3,000 will be offered when two or more students from the same immediate family enrol for any foundation, undergraduate or postgraduate programme.

Immediate family members include parents, spouse, and siblings.

This scholarship will not apply to the first enrolled student, but only to the second, third, etc. family members.

This scholarship will only apply for every year of study if there are two or more active and enrolled immediate family members paying their fees in the same academic year but for post-graduate students enrolled on the part-time option the scholarship would apply or be eligible for just one time for their enrolment on a programme.

The scholarship amount will be distributed equally across the instalment payments made by the student.

• Applicable to all Global College Programme (except Advanced DEP)

• The scholarship offered is guaranteed and will be spread equally over the duration of the Global College Programme and Undergraduate Honours degree programme.

• The scholarship offered will be distributed equally across the instalment payments made by the student per year.

• All decisions regarding scholarships and year of entry are at the discretion of the academic head or regional recruitment director after evaluating scores of individual relevant subjects and English language requirements.

• Recipients must maintain a minimum C grade in all courses each academic year at Heriot-Watt University Dubai to retain the award.

• If a recipient does not maintain a minimum C grade in all subjects at the end of an academic year, they will be placed on scholarship probation and will be exceptionally permitted to retain the award for the upcoming academic year. If a recipient does not maintain a minimum C grade in all courses at the end of the academic year for which they are on probation, then the remainder of the award will be cancelled.

• Please note any lost scholarship cannot be adjusted/claimed back. 

Students applying to the Petroleum Engineering postgraduate programme in the September 2024 Intake would be granted a 25% tuition fees waiver.

• The scholarship is guaranteed and calculated on the net tuition deducting any other discounts that the student may have received.

• The scholarship offered will be distributed equally across the instalment payments made by the student per year.

• All decisions regarding scholarships are at the discretion of the academic head or regional recruitment director after evaluating Undergraduate degree grades, work experience if applicable to the programme, and English language requirements.

Please note that all scholarship decisions are subject to the Scholarship Committee approvals.

A scholarship of up to 30% of the tuition fee for up to 30 students will be offered to students who have excelled in any sport, community engagement activities, or extracurricular activities at the national or international level.

This scholarship will be open to applicants for any of the foundation, undergraduate and postgraduate programmes.

Students who are awarded this scholarship are expected to engage in their chosen sport, community engagement or extracurricular activities at the University’s events, and are expected to contribute to the University’s marketing efforts. This may include, but not be limited to writing blogs about their University experience, providing support at recruitment and PR events etc.

The scholarship offered is guaranteed and will be spread equally over the duration of the degree.

• Merit students may qualify for a direct entry into the second year of an undergraduate programme. Details of the criteria for direct admission into second year are listed on our programme pages and are available in the University’s Admissions Office. However, the decision remains at the discretion of the course director after evaluating scores of individual relevant subjects.

• The scholarship offered will be calculated on the net tuition fee of the first year after deducting any other scholarships or discounts that the student may have received.

• The scholarship offered is guaranteed and will be spread equally over the duration of the degree

• The scholarship offered will be distributed equally across the instalment payments made by the student per year.

• All decisions regarding scholarships and year of entry are at the discretion of the academic head after evaluating scores of individual relevant subjects and English language requirements.

• Recipients must maintain a minimum C grade in all courses each academic year at Heriot-Watt University Dubai to retain the award.

• If a recipient does not maintain a minimum C grade in all subjects at the end of an academic year, they will be placed on scholarship probation and will be exceptionally permitted to retain the award for the upcoming academic year. If a recipient does not maintain a minimum C grade in all courses at the end of the academic year for which they are on probation, then the remainder of the award will be cancelled.

• Please note any lost scholarship cannot be adjusted/claimed back.