How to apply
The Bseisu Foundation offers scholarships and funding opportunities across the UK, US, Middle East and Malaysia. We work with a variety of partners to deliver our funding opportunities.
Partners such as universities and other organisations help us to award scholarships through match funding arrangements. Conditions and criteria may vary slightly from one scholarship award to another.
All of our scholarship programmes are administered through university admissions departments or by partner organisations and we do not receive applications ourselves. You must apply to our partners directly.
Visit Our Scholarships to find a complete list of all the scholarship programmes we offer.
FAQs
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Each of our Scholarships and Programmes have slightly different eligibility criterias so please check the Our Scholarships page for more details. However, most of our programmes are available to scholars who are ordinarily resident in Lebanon, Palestine, Syria or Jordan. The majority of our scholarships are available for those pursuing master’s studies in the UK.
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Our scholarship awards cover full tuition fees. Some of our scholarships may also cover living costs but please check the details of each individual scholarship.
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Our scholarships usually require that you are “ordinarily resident” in Lebanon, Palestine, Syria and Jordan. However, in some cases exceptions may be made. Select scholarships will specify that candidates may still be eligible if they hold citizenship in one of these countries, despite not being ordinarily resident.
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We work with directly with a few universities to provide scholarships. We also work with partner organisations, such as Chevening and the British Council and this allows us to provide Scholarships for scholars applying outside of our university partners. Read more about these partners here.
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No, we currently only provide scholarships to those studying full-time degrees.
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All of our scholarship programmes are administered directly through university admissions departments or partner organisations and we do not receive applications ourselves. Therefore, application deadlines follow those set by our partners. Visit our Scholarships page for more information or speak directly to our partners.
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All news regarding application outcome will be delivered by our partners and all Scholarship Programmes have different timelines. Please talk to the university or partner organisation directly for more information regarding this.
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The Bseisu Foundation does not require that students return to their home country after their studies. However, a few of our partners do have this condition and therefore it is a condition when applying for our joint programme. Most notably, Chevening requires that all scholars return home for two years after the completion of their award.
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Our focus is on supporting STEM scholars. However, there are a few exceptions and we are increasingly offering more scholarship opportunities for students on humanities programmes.
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No, we do not currently support any scholars pursuing PhD studies.
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Our scholarships in the USA are in partnership with AMIDEAST. These are allocated to Palestinian scholars who are studying an undergraduate degree in the US. We also support undergraduate students in the Middle East and Malaysia. However, all of our scholarship awards in the UK are for master’s study. Visit our Scholarships page to find out which opportunities you may be eligible for.
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All of our scholarships have different deadlines, so please check each individual scholarship for more information here to ensure you don’t miss out. Cambridge and Oxford usually have an application deadline between December and January. Chevening scholarships also have an early deadline, with applications generally closing in November.
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