The Data Lab Scholarships

The University of Stirling, in partnership with The Data Lab and the Scottish Funding Council, is offering fully funded places on a selection of on-campus Masters courses. The Data Lab is Scotland's innovation centre for data and has a mission to maximise the value that Scotland gets from data. It facilitates partnerships between industry and academia, supporting data science projects as well as funding and running first-class education programmes. These scholarships are available to students studying on one of several on-campus postgraduate masters courses at the University of Stirling, including MSc Mathematics and Data Science, MSc Financial Technology, MSc Advanced Computing with Artificial Intelligence, MSc Artificial Intelligence, MSc Big Data, MSc Business Analytics, and MSc Data Science for Business. Each scholarship covers tuition fees up to £6,500; if the fee for the chosen course is higher, the University will cover the remaining cost of the tuition fee. Currently, one Data Lab Scholarship remains available for study on either the MSc Business Analytics or MSc Data Science for Business programme, with a January 2026 start. The funded places are open to applicants domiciled in Scotland who have the right to live and work in the UK and whose permanent place of residence has been Scotland for the past three years. Applications are reviewed by course directors and decisions are based on merit, with nominated applicants contacted with further information from The Data Lab.