How freely is financial aid available for MSc students?
Please see our section on Graduate Programs > Funding Opportunities. I’ve looked into a few scholarships, but, they all require detailed descriptions of my potential research project (which I am not sure of as of yet!). It is true that many scholarships ask for details about research. There are two ways to handle this problem. You could write a proposal to the best of your ability, and ask a faculty member at the School to review it before you send it off. If you decide to continue this line of research when you arrive, great, but often subtle or more major changes in a student’s research take place after they start. This is rarely a problem, since scholarships are usually given based on your merit rather than the proposal’s merit (the proposal illustrates your thinking, etc.) Another approach would be to wait to apply for scholarships until after you’ve started the program and finalized a research topic. The disadvantage of this is that you will not receive award money for your first
