Birmingham Online

University of Birmingham

This is your time – Become a leader in your field with a 100% online postgraduate degree from the University of Birmingham. One of the UK’s top academic institutions, our programmes are career-centred, internationally focused and expertly taught. Recognised as a world 'top-100' institution (QS World University Rankings 2025) and prestigious Russell Group member, the University of Birmingham has been challenging and developing leading minds for more than a century - a tradition that continues today, no matter where or how you study. The University of Birmingham has the strength and variety of programmes to suit your individual needs and interests, backed by the academic expertise and influence, support and facilities of a top 100 public research and teaching university. You’ll benefit from both academic and personal development to achieve success and ensure your degree is an asset in your future prospects.

Why study at Birmingham Online?

93rd in the world (THE World University Rankings 2025)

80th in the world (QS World University Rankings 2025)

14th in the UK (Complete University Guide 2024)

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About Birmingham Online

The University of Birmingham’s flexible online learning programmes will connect you with international faculty and peers, so you gain access to leading scholarly research, crucial career skills, an informed global perspective and professional links in both private and public sectors.

A leading provider of distance and blended learning within the UK, we use the latest digital learning techniques to ensure that you can study whenever and wherever it suits you.

We are pleased to offer the following 100% online postgraduate degrees:

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Our Online Birmingham Masters Scholarship offers £3,000 via a tuition fee discount, to support the brightest and best applicants undertaking a postgraduate course via distance learning in 2025.

In celebration of our 125th anniversary, we are continuing our rich tradition of supporting and welcoming the brightest students to the University by offering a £3,000 tuition fee discount through our Online Birmingham Masters Scholarship scheme.

These scholarships are our commitment to our distance learning students who choose to forge their future at Birmingham. The Online Birmingham Masters Scholarships will support students to study an academically-rigorous degree to enhance their knowledge and career whilst studying flexibly around their existing commitments. As valued members of our postgraduate community, these scholarships will support new students to continue our civic mission around the world.

You can submit an application for the Online Birmingham Masters Scholarship by using the below button to complete our embedded form.

Value of Scholarship(s)

£3,000

Eligibility

The scheme is open to all distance learning students who are studying an eligible online Masters degree as on the link attached. Scholarship applications will need to be received before the relevant deadline. Please note that the MBA degrees have different scholarship deadlines due to the course start dates.

Application Procedure

Scholarship Application Deadlines
Deadlines for the Online Birmingham Masters Scholarship will take place before your course's start date.

Online MBAs
Scholarship applications for the online MBAs have the following deadlines:

The deadline for students starting in March closed 23:59 (UK time) on Friday 7 February 2025.
The deadline for students starting in July is 23:59 (UK time) on Friday 27 June 2025.
The deadline for students starting in October is 23:59 (UK time) on Friday 26 September 2025.
All other courses
The other eligible courses for the Online Birmingham Masters Scholarship will have the following deadlines:

The deadline for students starting in March closed 23:59 (UK time) on Friday 14 February 2025.
The deadline for students starting in June is 23:59 (UK time) on Friday 30 May 2025.
The deadline for students starting in October is 23:59 (UK time) is Friday 3 October 2025.


The Online MSc International Management is helping me to earn the theoretical and practical experience I need to succeed at the start of my career. While it could have easily taken me three years to pursue traditional studies, I feel I already have had a one-year head-start on my career. Work hard and work smart.

Being an online student, I can confidently say that choosing the University of Birmingham for my studies has been one of the best decisions I have made. The University’s world-class reputation and rigorous curriculum have challenged and expanded my knowledge, preparing me to take on real-world business challenges with confidence.

I have always viewed the world as ‘the more education you have then more opportunities that are available’. The advancement in online learning helped open up the door for me to accomplish my long held goal of getting a masters degree. The online courses have advanced greatly in both their curriculum and acceptance in the marketplace.

“The course represents the cutting edge of this industry and equips the student with the broad range of valuable skills required to play an integral part of any learning design team. The lecturers are highly qualified, experienced and extremely knowledgeable, the materials are accessible and the assessment methods are valid. I cannot recommend the course highly enough.”

Studying online with the University of Birmingham has been a transformative experience for me. Balancing work, motherhood, and education was a challenge, but the flexibility of online learning has allowed me to pursue my passion for bioinformatics. The curriculum is engaging, and the support from the Admissions team has been exceptional. I’m grateful for the opportunity to learn and grow in a field that combines my love for biology and computer science.


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