Managed by the Scottish Government, the SAAS program, aims at giving financial support to eligible foreign students, who are doing a course of higher education within the Scottish universities. The principle of SAAS (Student Awards Agency Scotland) is simple, every foreign student who is citizen of a country withing the European Union will get a scholarship covering the entire registration fees at a Scottish university.
While the students in England have to pay, approximately, 7000 euros as registration fees, Scotland proposes free registration fees to foreign students. Nevertheless, Scotland benefits from famous English universities such as: St Andrew's university, university of Edinburgh or Glasgow.
How much will SAAS pay for you?
If you are eligible for SAAS help, then SAAS will pay your tuition fees straight to your college or university. Your application will be valid for only one academic year, so you have to make sure you apply every year. The amount of tuition fees that SAAS can pay, will depend on what course you are studying. The tuition fee rates for 2016-2017 are:
- £1,285 (or €1400) for HNC and HND and any other sub-degree courses.
- £1,820 (or €2100)for first degree or PGDE courses.
- £1,205 (€1300) for courses at private colleges.
- £2,895 (€3300) for medicine degrees that commenced in 2011-2012 or earlier.
The eligibility conditions to benefit from SAAS program:
Numerous French universities provide access to the SAAS program scholarship in an automatic way within the framework of their partnership with the Scottish universities. But, not only French students can apply, but also all foreign students, who wish to study in Scotland, can benefit from it. So, if you joined via UCAS (a system that handles the management of all the applications of higher education in the United Kingdom), or by, directly, sending your file to the university of your choice, you can benefit as well from SAAS scholraship.
However, every student should fulfill some conditions in order to obtain SAAS scholarship. These conditions include:
1- Present a letter of acceptance obtained from a Scottish university.
2- Study at least one year in a Scottish university.
3- Be a European citizen.
4- Take one year of full-time studies.
5- Obtain your diploma at the end of this year studies, the scholarship will be removed from you in case of failure.
The procedure to obtain financial help from SAAS?
The procedure to apply for SAAS scholarship to study in Scotland is to be made online, on the official website of SAAS. You can start the procedure yourself before you leave for Scotland, but the majority of Scottish universities will help you in the procedure during the first weeks of your arrival in the Scottish university which accepted you. Thus no need to worry, because once there you can always benefit from the scholarship.
The SAAS program is important, and allows to join an English-speaking country more easily, with financial constraints much less important than for countries as Australia, England or USA.
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