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LEEDS MARSHALL SCHOLARSHIPS

This Scholarship is for Graduate Study in any subject at either Masters or Doctoral level at the University of Leeds and will be for two years (with a possibility of a third year for doctoral studies). If awarded a Leeds Marshall Scholarship candidates would be expected to study at the University of Leeds.

The following information has been provided by the University of Leeds:

The University has its origins in the establishment of the Leeds School of Medicine in 1831 and the Yorkshire College of Science in 1874. Other subject areas, including those in the humanities, were then developed and in 1904 the University of Leeds was granted a Royal Charter and established as a University.

Leeds is now among the top ten universities for research in the UK and is internationally acknowledged as a centre of excellence in a wide range of academic and professional disciplines. Its broad research and skills base and superb facilities attract interest from major multinationals and small local businesses alike. Many of the research initiatives cross traditional subject boundaries. Research students are supported through Graduate Schools in nine different Faculties, which cover all the major subject disciplines.

The University of Leeds now has:

  • 28 Schools that achieved the highest ratings of 5 and 5* in the last National Research Assessment Exercise;
  • Over 1,100 academic staff, many with internationally renowned reputations, possessing a unique range of expertise;
  • Multi-million pound investment programmes in new research facilities
  • Outstanding resources including a major academic research library, laboratories and computing facilities, and the Graduate Training and Support Centre;
  • An excellent reputation for the quality of its research training, with emphasis on key skills that will enhance professional career development;
  • Over 300 different postgraduate taught Masters programmes of study across a wide range of subjects
  • An international reputation for the quality of its teaching and research with students from over 131 countries registered for degree programmes.

Among recent research degree graduates there are many who have gone on to work in the USA, these include:


  • John Elderfield(MPhil): Chief Curator, Department of Painting and Sculpture, Museum of Modern Art, New York
  • Professor V. Craig Jordan (PhD):Developed the breast cancer drug tamoxifen
  • Dr Piers Sellers (PhD: NASA astronaut; undertook three space walks as crew member, Space Shuttle Atlantis, 2002

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For the University of Leeds website please visit http://www.Leeds.ac.uk/ Information for "Prospective Students" will direct you to information about taught postgraduate and research postgraduate study.