King’s College, London launches scholarships for Indian Students (May 31st Deadline)

King’s College, London has recently launched a scholarship programme, designed exclusively for Indian students that enables them a grant of 10,000 pounds against the college fees as a fee waiver. The Vice Chancellor’s award will be awarded to 30 Indian students starting this year and is applicable across six faculties in the university. The scholarship is for students starting full-time, on-campus postgraduate study in September 2024. 

The six faculties that it encompasses include Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine, the Dickson Poon School of Law, Faculty of Natural, Mathematical and Engineering Science, King’s Business School, Social Science and Public Policy and Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience. 

Students will have until the end of May to apply for this scholarship programme. After applying, students will be asked a set of four questions to gauge how they are aiming to use their King’s degree in service of society. 

Adam Fagan, Vice President Education at King’s College, London said, “King’s have been welcoming Indian students for many years now and all our data suggests that Indian students do incredibly well, whether it be academically or what they contribute to our college.” He further added, “they become our student representatives and lead our students. We want to recruit quality students from India and we recognize that it is a very big expense for families to send their child to study in London, so by launching this, we aim to indicate that we are also very keen to keep recruiting them.” The present Vice Chancellor of King’s College, Shitij Kapur is also an Indian.

King's College London (informally King's or KCL) is a public research university located in London, England, established by royal charter in 1829. King's alumni and staff include 14 Nobel laureates.

Some of the notable Indian or Indian-origin alumni of King’s College London are:

Sarojini Naidu

Sarojini Naidu was an Indian political activist and poet who served as the first Governor of United Provinces, after India's independence. 

Khushwant Singh

Khushwant Singh was an Indian author, lawyer, diplomat, journalist and politician. His experience in the 1947 Partition of India inspired him to write Train to Pakistan in 1956 (made into film in 1998), which became his most well-known novel.

Reita Faria Powell

Reita Faria Powell is an Indian physician, former model and the winner of Miss World 1966 pageant. She is the first Miss World winner to be qualified as a medical doctor.

Banita Sandhu

Banita Sandhu is a Welsh actress of Indian origin. She is known for her work in Indian cinema and made her film debut with the 2018 Hindi-language film October, going on to star in the Tamil-language production Adithya Varma and the CW series Pandora (both 2019).

Pritam Singh

Pritam Singh is a Singaporean politician, author, and lawyer who has been the Secretary-General of the Workers' Party since 2018, and Leader of the Opposition since 2020. A member of the Workers' Party (WP), Singh has been the Member of Parliament (MP) representing the Eunos division of Aljunied GRC since 2011.

Anita Anand

Anita Anand is trained as a journalist after graduating from King’s, joining the newsroom of India’s first privately owned satellite and cable channel, Zee TV. As political correspondent, she presented the talk show The Big Debate and the documentary series Raj Britannia, and, by 1997, she was European Head of News and Current Affairs and one of the youngest TV news editors in Britain at the age of 25.

You can find more information about the scholarships through the following page:

https://www.idp.com/india/search/scholarship/universities/Kings-College…