Postgraduate Application Guide

Step 2: Check the entry requirements

Make sure that your academic qualifications meet the requirements for your chosen course.

Most postgraduate degree courses will require you to hold an undergraduate degree from a UK institution. If you’ve studied abroad you’ll need an equivalent qualification from an institution recognised by the UK National Recognition Information Centre).

Find out more about postgraduate entry requirements at UWS.

Find out more about English language entry requirements at UWS.

Step 3: Fees and funding

Tuition Fees

Your tuition fees are determined by your nationality and the country where you are ordinarily resident.

CHeck your tuition fee status

Each individual course entry will identify the tuition fees for full-time and part-time study (if applicable).

Check our Postgraduate and Post-experience course listing

NB: Part-time tuition fees are normally listed on a per-module basis (typically 20-credit point modules).

Funding options

There is a great deal of financial support available to help students meet the cost of their study. This ranges from statutory government loans to pay for tuition fees to bursaries to help towards living expenses.

financial support you might be entitled to

Step 4: Apply through our online application system 

You can apply for postgraduate study at UWS through our online form.

As part of the application process you will need to provide digital copies of the following documents:

• Degree certificate(s)
• Copy of your academic transcript(s)
• English language proficiency test certificate (if English is not your first language)
• At least one academic reference, signed and on headed paper or sent from the referee’s work email account (if you do not hold the reference please provide the email address of your academic referee).

You can apply for a postgraduate degree right up to the start of the intake.

Step 5: Application processing

After you submit your application, we will send you an email confirming that we have received your application. Within this email, there will be details of the additional documents (if any) you need to supply in support of your application.

Step 6: Decision time

Once your application has been processed, we will contact you by email to confirm if it has been successful. This will include guidance on how to accept an offer and fee payment, if required.

Our Admissions team will make one of the following decisions:

• Unconditional offer: you already meet the necessary entry requirements
• Conditional offer: you still need to achieve the required qualifications or supply all necessary documentation to support your application. Once you meet these conditions, your offer will change to unconditional
• Unsuccessful: you are not considered to be suitably qualified

UWS Admissions Procedure

The UWS Admissions Policy has been developed to provide transparency in the admissions processes and practices of University of the West of Scotland, ensuring that a quality service is given to all applicants.

Our priority for admissions is to match prospective students with the programme of study that best meets their needs, whilst ensuring that our institutional strategic objectives are met. We are committed to ensuring that our approach to the admissions of students is transparent, fair, honest, consistent, accessible, personalised and timely.

View the UWS Admissions Procedure