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how to afford a masters degree?????
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In that case then you should be thanking your lucky stars that you are at least getting fees funding. That's a lot more than most!0
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stuckinmyflat wrote: »have already spoke to my uni about saas funding theres still 120 full time funded places at my uni, and my course would fall into that.
120 funded places for one Masters course - you must have misunderstood.0 -
no theres is in total of 175 places across a wide variety of masters courses at my uni, the one im looking at is listed therefore i qualify for saas funding for feesRude people are a fact of life, if you wrestle with a pig you will stink! There's no getting around this concept. If you allow yourself to go someone's level you will only bring yourself down.0
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SAAS do fund fees for selected masters courses at different uni's across scotland its on their webisteRude people are a fact of life, if you wrestle with a pig you will stink! There's no getting around this concept. If you allow yourself to go someone's level you will only bring yourself down.0
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SAAS usually do not cover masters courses, but do provide some funding for the postgraduate diploma. From the SAAS website: "Under the terms of the PSAS, we offer a limited number of discretionary awards to eligible students for one course of professional or vocational training, mostly at diploma level...Courses at masters or doctorate level are the responsibility of one of the research councils."
However, if you are sure that your course has funding then in all honesty you should take it and run. Masters funding is like gold dust, especially stand-alone masters courses.
You have also yet to answer my solution to your library problem. If students themselves cannot ask the library to restrict loans, then ask staff to do it.0 -
I don't know a great deal about the Scottish funding system but surely post graduate funding is competitive and not automatic like undergraduate funding?0
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Oldernotwiser wrote: »I don't know a great deal about the Scottish funding system but surely post graduate funding is competitive and not automatic like undergraduate funding?
How competitive depends on student numbers. My department has (some) fees funding for their masters courses. It's usually done on a first-come basis, rather than grades. It also comes down to a bit of 'who-you-know', with the department generally favouring their own students.
That's not SAAS though, that's just departmental. I assume the SAAS funding will be done on a similar basis.0 -
i take on board what u said about library loans, and will look into this.
as for funding, you guys got me worried for a sec there, thought id got it wrong, but have spoken to both the admissions officer and finance department about this today and there is funding available. they advised me that it only covers postgrad qualifications FEES, and directed me to this list on the uni website, and my course is definately covered, they also explained its on a first come first serve basis. lucky for me only one out of the courses is full so far, therefore theres still a lot of fee's funding available.Rude people are a fact of life, if you wrestle with a pig you will stink! There's no getting around this concept. If you allow yourself to go someone's level you will only bring yourself down.0 -
The_One_Who wrote: »How competitive depends on student numbers. My department has (some) fees funding for their masters courses. It's usually done on a first-come basis, rather than grades. It also comes down to a bit of 'who-you-know', with the department generally favouring their own students.
That's not SAAS though, that's just departmental. I assume the SAAS funding will be done on a similar basis.
Offering funding on a first come basis seems a very strange way to go about things. Does that really mean that an early applicant with a weak 2:2 would get funding but a brilliant student with a first wouldn't because all the funding had gone?0 -
Oldernotwiser wrote: »Offering funding on a first come basis seems a very strange way to go about things. Does that really mean that an early applicant with a weak 2:2 would get funding but a brilliant student with a first wouldn't because all the funding had gone?
I think it's more complicated than that. Funding isn't allocated until applications close and they know exactly how many students there are, because obviously some will fail to meet the 2.1 minimum. As far as I am aware it is done on a mix of first-come (application dates are known), own students and whether they have actually asked to be put in for it. I don't think grades come into it that much.0
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