{"id":14453,"date":"2016-02-15T09:00:52","date_gmt":"2016-02-15T09:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/postgraduate\/?p=3715"},"modified":"2016-02-15T09:00:52","modified_gmt":"2016-02-15T09:00:52","slug":"how-i-got-a-tuition-fee-waiver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/2016\/02\/15\/how-i-got-a-tuition-fee-waiver\/","title":{"rendered":"How I got a tuition fee waiver"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tDeciding between studying for a Master\u2019s degree or braving the big wide world of employment was a tough decision for me to make. After graduating in 2015 I was unsure exactly what it was I even wanted to do with my degree. I spent many hours searching the internet for jobs and even applied to most of them. The thought of no more exams or assignments and actually earning money in a job I enjoyed was very appealing. However that was the problem, I didn\u2019t feel I was qualified enough for any of the jobs that were actually attractive to me. This lead me to the decision that studying for a Master\u2019s degree would enhance my future job prospects and enable me to end up in that dream job one day. But\u2026 I was then faced with the issue that there was no government funding for Master\u2019s courses coming in until the start of the 2016 academic year.\"Stephanie-Farrant\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Graduation!<\/em><\/p>\n

When I was weighing up my options I decided to visit the BU scholarships website in the hope that I may be eligible for a scholarship in order to help with funding the course. After reading through all of the different scholarships that BU offered, I discovered I was eligible to apply for the Vice-Chancellor\u2019s Scholarship<\/a> for the \u2018Most promising postgraduate (Master\u2019s) applicant,’ as I’d taken my undergraduate degree at BU. I saw it as a huge long shot and was considering not even bothering with the application as I thought there would be so many applicants I wouldn\u2019t even stand a chance. Luckily, I talked myself into writing the personal statement. Only a couple of hundred words later I sent the application off and put it to the back of my mind.<\/p>\n

A few months later I received an email to say I had been successful in my application and I had been awarded the full tuition fee scholarship. I couldn\u2019t believe my luck and I was so grateful to the university for providing me with the opportunity to study as a postgraduate.<\/p>\n

So anybody who finds themselves in a similar situation as I was in when I graduated from my undergraduate degree, don\u2019t completely rule out the option of postgraduate study just based on the cost. A scholarship of any amount can make a huge difference and they are out there for people of all different disciplines, you just need to find the ones that are most appropriate and apply!<\/p>\n\"Stephanie-fancy-dress\"<\/a>\n

A slightly less formal photo!<\/em><\/p>\n

By Stephanie Farrant<\/strong>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Deciding between studying for a Master\u2019s degree or braving the big wide world of employment was a tough decision for me to make. After graduating in 2015 I was unsure exactly what it was I even wanted to do with my degree. I spent many hours searching the internet for jobs and even applied to… Read more » about How I got a tuition fee waiver<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1096,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1658,1663],"tags":[877,130,48,256,2048,2177,2186,255,2271,2339],"class_list":["post-14453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-archive","category-postgraduate","tag-bournemouth","tag-bournemouth-university","tag-bu","tag-bu-scholarships","tag-masters","tag-postgraduate-funding","tag-postgraduate-study","tag-scholarships","tag-stephanie-farrant","tag-vice-chancellors-scholarship"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1096"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}