George Moore Scholars

Scholar Category

Applicants should be one of two categories:

Graduate Scholar

Applicants are classified as a ‘Graduate Scholar’ if they graduated in 2025 or expect to graduate in early 2026 from a higher education institution in the Republic of Ireland or Northern Ireland at the time of taking up the scholarship.

Early Career Scholar

Applicants are classified as an ‘Early Career Scholar’ if they graduated from their primary undergraduate degree between 2020-2024 and have been building additional work experience to improve their potential for impact in their chosen field. Early Career Scholars will normally be applying for programmes that would have a preference for candidates with additional experience in advance of undertaking the Master's degree.

Education to date

Applicants should have completed, or be in the final year of, an undergraduate degree at the time of applying for George Moore Scholars.

The programme is intended to support people who do not yet have a Master’s degree, so you should not apply if you have undertaken a Master’s degree. There are some exceptions to this, for example, if you completed an integrated Master’s as a fifth year add-on to an undergraduate engineering degree, you may still apply to the George Moore Scholars programme.

Citizenship and residency status

Applicants will normally be Irish citizens, or UK citizens of Northern Ireland.
Applicants will have completed at least 70% of their education on the island of Ireland (primary, secondary, third-level).
If an applicant has completed at least 70% of their education on the island of Ireland, and undertaken their primary degree in Great Britain (outside of NI), they may apply.
EU citizens who have completed at least 70% of their education on the island of Ireland may apply. Applicants will have completed their primary degree on the island of Ireland.
Non-European Economic Area citizens resident in Ireland / Northern Ireland must have permanent leave to remain by the closing date for applications, 21 November 2025.

If you are completing your application and you run into difficulty, please check the website in full to see if you can find an answer to your query. You may also reach out to George Moore Scholars on LinkedIn to see if they can help you with your query. We strongly advise applicants to sign up for a live information session, where you can ask your questions and hear directly from Scholars. If you are still unclear about an aspect of the application, please email: info@georgemoorescholars.ie.

Programme start date

Applicants may only apply for support for a course that will begin in the future and not courses they are already undertaking.

Applicants must commence their course in the academic year in which they have been selected as a Scholar, i.e. those selected in March/April 2026 must commence their course sometime in July-October 2026. Deferrals will not normally be permitted.

Securing a place on a Master's programme

Applicants are wholly responsible for securing a place on a Master's degree programme in a university outside of the island of Ireland. Master’s degrees in Northern Ireland are not considered as part of the programme.

Successful applicants will need to submit proof of an offer to join a Master’s programme abroad, alongside their detailed budget, before they will be awarded their scholarship.

Most applicants receive offers from higher education institutions between March and June each year. This means you will be submitting the George Moore Scholars application well in advance of receiving a master’s degree offer.

Multiple applications

Applicants may submit only one application a year.