Baillie Gifford Scholarship for Woman in STEM

Billie Gifford Scholarship: STEM Scholarship for Women

Overview

Baillie Gifford is an independent investment partnership founded in Edinburgh in 1908, focused on long-term growth investing in some of the world’s most exciting companies. With 1,684 staff and assets under management of £277bn (of 31 March 2022), it has offices in Edinburgh (HQ), Amsterdam, Dublin, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, London, New York, Shanghai, Toronto and Zurich.

Baillie Gifford also supports scholarships for Mental Health Nursing within the School of Applied Science at Abertay University.

Applications will be selected based on how well the applicant demonstrates how the scholarship can help them achieve their ambitions to work in a software engineering-related career. Other important factors include: Students who are first in their family to attend university; have overcome challenging circumstances; are from a low-income background and/or are at risk of leaving their studies will benefit from the scholarship.

Seven Baillie Gifford STEM scholarships are available in Academic Year 2023/24.

Eligibility

To be considered for this scholarship, applicants must meet all of the following criteria:

Be commencing year 1 in one of the following BSc (Hons) software engineering degrees in September 2023:
- BSc (Hons) Computer Games Application Development
- BSc (Hons) Computer Games Technology
- BSc (Hons) Computing
- BSc (Hons) Ethical Hacking
- BSc (Hons) Cybersecurity
Identify as female
Be able to demonstrate a financial need for support in the application form
Be able to demonstrate a strong intent to have a career in software engineering when they graduate
Be willing to meet the award conditions set out in the guidance notes.