At a glance

• Value: up to €10,500
• You must be a current UCC Student to be eligible for this scholarship
• Questions about this scholarship can be directed to quercus@ucc.ie

University College Cork is pleased to announce that up to 4 Quercus Academic Scholarships will be awarded to registered undergraduate/level 8 students in 2024/25 who can demonstrate an exceptional level of academic excellence and who have successfully been selected by the Scholarship Panel for a Quercus Scholarship.

1.    General Criteria

Scholarships will be offered to applicants who satisfy the Scholarship Panel (and in turn UCC) as to their suitability to the Quercus Talented Students’ Programme and who can demonstrate academic excellence. The panel’s decisions will be final. However, feedback on any individual student can be requested.

The Scholarship can be renewed for subsequent years subject to the Scholar meeting the requirements of the Retention and Discontinuation Document and progression to the next level of study in their academic programme.

Scholars may not hold a Scholarship during an academic year spent abroad or on work placement.  Renewal will be decided at the end of the academic year prior to the year spent abroad or on work placement and will be “carried forward” to the year after the academic year spent abroad or on work placement.

Scholars will be expected to act as ambassadors for UCC in terms of their participation in academic activities and in their participation in activities designed to promote the Quercus Talented Students’ Programme.

2.    Applying for a Quercus Scholarship

The Quercus University Scholars will be invited to make an application by the relevant Colleges in University College Cork based on students' previous academic results.

Successful applicants will:

• Show outstanding achievement within their discipline(s) and will normally be the highest scoring student in continuous assessment and end of semester examinations in the programme of study and may have been recognised through internal prizes/awards.
• Show evidence of provincial, national, or international achievement.
• Show evidence of participation and engagement with the programme of study.
• Show evidence of communication skills, dissemination and engaging with/mentoring peers, related to the discipline (e.g. oral presentation, poster presentation, publication).

Successful applicants may:

• Demonstrate excellence in areas not exclusive to their specialist domain.
• Demonstrate what contribution they may make as a Quercus University Scholar.
• Demonstrate evidence of leadership and initiative.

Where there are equivalent levels of excellence applicants deemed able to contribute most to the Quercus Talented Students’ Programme UCC will be selected.

For more information visit https://www.ucc.ie/en/quercus/