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The Shell Centenary and Centenary Chevening Scholarships for Master Degree
Written by Suleman Shahid
Monday, 26 December 2005
The Shell Centenary and Centenary Chevening Scholarships support educational
advancement and co-operation world-wide by providing opportunities to study
in the UK to students and young professionals from overseas who can demonstrate
the potential to become leaders and decision-makers in their own countries.
The scholarships cover tuition fees, accommodation, maintenance costs and
a return airfare for the scholarship holder.
Eight of these scholarships (four Shell Centenary Scholarships and four Shell
Centenary Chevening Scholarships) are available each year at UCL
for students pursuing specific eligible taught Master's degree programmes in
the following areas:
Applied science and technology
The Built Environment and Development Planning
Economics
Engineering
Law
Life and Clinical Sciences
The scholarships are open to students who are nationals of countries that
are not members of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
(OECD). Applicants must be resident in their home country at the time of application.
Nationals from the following countries are NOT eligible to apply:
Australia
Austria
Belgium
Canada
Denmark
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Iceland
Ireland
Italy
Japan
Luxembourg
Netherlands
New Zealand
Norway
Portugal
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
United Kingdom
United States
Candidates must be aged 35 or under, have excellent spoken and written English,
be of outstanding academic ability and have obtained the equivalent of a UK
first-class Honours degree.
Application Procedure
Application forms are provided on request only, and only to candidates
who have already submitted an application for admission to one of the eligible
programmes at UCL (Graduate Admissions).
To request a Shell scholarship application form, please email
citing "Shell Forms" in the subject header and giving us the date
of your application for admission.
We will only send forms to those who have already applied for admission
to one of the eligible Master's programmes at UCL.
If you have already applied, please check that your chosen
course in on the list of eligible programmes for a scholarship (see list below).
We will check for whether you have applied for admission on a monthly basis
only. To enable us to find your entry on our UCL Admissions Database, your email
inquiry must include your first and last name, your date of birth and, if you
have, your admissions application number.
Completed scholarship application forms must be submitted electronically to
no later
than 1st March.
Selection Criteria, Procedure & Timetable
Applications are assessed on the basis of academic achievement. Scholarships
are awarded to candidates expected to best cfontribute to the sustainable
development of their home country by becoming leaders, decision-makers or
opinion-formers.
Preference will be given to candidates who have had some relevant and significant
post-graduate work experience, and who have not already had the opportunity
to study in the UK.
Applications are initially assessed by a panel of UCL academics in late April,
and a selection of applications is then forwarded to The Shell Centenary Scholarship
Fund. Short-listed candidates will be invited for interview in their home
country.
All candidates can expect to be notified by letter of the final outcome of
their scholarship applications in June.
Eligible programmes at UCL:
Faculty of the Built Environment
MSc Building & Urban Design
MSc Construction Economics & Management
MSc Development Administration & Planning
MSc Environment & Sustainable Development
MSc Environmental Design & Engineering
MSc Facility & Environment Management
MSc Housing Futures
MSc International Housing Studies
MSc Light & Lighting
MSc Project & Enterprise Management
MSc Social Development Practice
MSc Strategic Planning & Regional Development
MSc Town & Country Planning
MSc Urban Design
MSc Urban Development Planning
MSc Urban Economic Development
MSc Urban Regeneration
MSc Virtual Environments
Faculty of Engineering Sciences
MSc Biochemical Engineering
MSc Biomedical Engineering & Medical Imaging
MSc Chemical Process Engineering
MSc Civil Engineering
MSc Computer Science
MSc Data Communications, Networks & Distributed Systems
MSc Defence Systems Engineering
MSc Geographical Information Science
MSc Hydrographic Surveying
MSc Intelligent Systems
MSc Marine Engineering
MSc Mechanical Engineering
MSc Naval Architecture
MSc Photogrammetry with Remote Sensing
MSc Surveying
MSc Systems Engineering
MSc Technologies for Broadband Communications
MSc Telecommunications
MSc Vision, Imaging & Virtual Environments
Faculty of Arts & Humanities
MA Electronic Communication & Publishing
MSc Information Science (Computerised Systems for Librarians, Archivists
and Information Professionals)
