Overview
Scholarship type
Number of scholarships to award
Grant
Scholarship coverage
- tuition fee reduction
Description
University College Cork is pleased to announce that up to 4 Quercus Academic Scholarships will be awarded to registered undergraduate/level 8 students who can demonstrate an exceptional level of academic excellence and who have successfully been selected by the Scholarship Panel for a Quercus Scholarship.
Benefits
The scholarship is worth up to €10,500.
Eligibility
- You must be a current UCC Student to be eligible for this scholarship.
- Scholarships will be offered to applicants who satisfy the Scholarship Panel (and in turn UCC) as to their suitability to the Quercus Talented Students’ Programme and who can demonstrate academic excellence. The panel’s decisions will be final.
Successful applicants will:
- Show outstanding achievement within their discipline(s) and will normally be the highest scoring student in continuous assessment and end of semester examinations in the programme of study and may have been recognised through internal prizes/awards.
- Show evidence of provincial, national, or international achievement.
- Show evidence of participation and engagement with the programme of study.
- Show evidence of communication skills, dissemination and engaging with/mentoring peers, related to the discipline (e.g. oral presentation, poster presentation, publication).
Successful applicants may:
- Demonstrate excellence in areas not exclusive to their specialist domain.
- Demonstrate what contribution they may make as a Quercus University Scholar.
- Demonstrate evidence of leadership and initiative.
Scholarship requirements
Disciplines
Locations
Nationality
Study experience required
Age
Application
Application deadline
The Quercus University Scholars will be invited to make an application by the relevant Colleges in University College Cork based on students' previous summer academic results.