The Music Department at Royal Holloway is delighted to announce scholarships for students starting our MMus degree in September 2025.
Thanks to the generosity of the Headley Trust, we are able to offer two Headley Trust Scholarships for MMus students starting in September 2025, covering the full fees for UK students. We also are offering the Corky McGuinness Award for musicology MMus students, covering a substantial portion of fees.
The MMus Music at Royal Holloway is an innovative degree designed to meet your needs whether you want to embark on a career in the music industry, prepare yourself for postgraduate research, or gain advanced skills that can be transferred across a wide range of careers. You can choose between pathways in: Composition, Performance, Musicology / Ethnomusicology, Music Management, Film / TV / Game Music, and Collaborative Piano. You can also choose modules that connect between several of these pathways.
Royal Holloway is ranked no.1 in the UK for music research (Complete University Guide 2022–2025) and is placed no.14 in the world for the performing arts by the QS World University Rankings 2024. Our outstanding facilities include professional-level recording studios, four production suites, a world music studio, and unique Victorian performing venues including our chapel and Picture Gallery. As an all-Steinway school, we offer our students exclusive use of Steinway or Steinway-designed pianos for their teaching, practice and performance.
Apply now
To apply for scholarships, we advise you apply for an MMus place by 15 May 2025 to allow time for your application for a place on our course to be processed. Once you have a conditional or unconditional offer of a place, you can apply for the Headley Trust Scholarships and the Corky McGuiness Award via a separate form on our online admissions system (deadline 12 June 2025 for scholarship applications).
International Musician Residencies at Royal Holloway
We also invite applications from international students enrolled on our MMus programme and specialising in world music for our International Musician Residency in 2025-26 (deadline is also 12 June 2025). Please click HERE for more information. To apply for this opportunity on our MMus course, please write to Dr Shzr Ee Tan (shzree.tan@rhul.ac.uk) with the following information by 5.00pm on 12 June 2025:
- a link to a short recording (10-12 minutes) of yourself in performance
- a personal statement of your artistic intent / ethos as a musician (500 words maximum)
