Edinburgh Postgraduate Application Thread 2021

That's strange. I'm an international student, but my transcripts and documents are all in English, and they didn't question that. My transcript did have a statement saying that the medium of instruction was English, along with the official seal. Maybe that helped? I'd email Edinburgh and ask them for further clarification

Yoo, I just got a conditional offer from Computer Science. The condition is to have an honours degree of 2.1, which is quite weird since my GPAX is equivalent to that already. I am an international student, btw.

Yoo, I just got a conditional offer from Computer Science. The condition is to have an honours degree of 2.1, which is quite weird since my GPAX is equivalent to that already. I am an international student, btw.

Did they ask you to upload specific documents?

Equivalent is not equal to honours itself, so it is 100% normal and all universities will do this. Just what if your final semester GPA sucks so much and lose you your honour? Thats the thing in concern.

Heyo. Applied to the Integrative Neuroscience MSc about a month ago, been on "Ready for a decision" for about 2 weeks now. I've seen people get their decisions about 2 to 3 days after their status being changed to Ready For a Decision. Mine's been stuck on that since forever. Does this translate to a rejection?

I’m in the Same position as you. Been on Ready for a Decision for coming up 3 weeks....

Yep, they did ask about the evidence of it. so I just uploaded my transcript there.


The thing is, my transcript is the final one. I was graduated last year, so it shouldn't be the case there.

If that's the case I think you should upload additional document to prove that your GPA is equal to the honours, like the back of your transcript (does it contain some marking rubrics), or some other proves. Or you can just simply email Edinburgh to ask them about this.

My MSc International Development application just failed. Although I still have another course application in process, my desire of studying at Edinburgh is now mostly diminished. I think I will now mainly wait for KCL and SOAS's decision before deciding what offer am I about to take (I have got offers from Manchester and Warwick, but I still want to look at KCL)

Sorry to hear that, but did you graduate with a first or a 2:1 if it’s ok to ask? Or is it just a competitive course?

2:1, last year's data was a 40% admission rate, I am not sure which part I failed at but I will guess it is personal statement and lack of experience.

No worries maybe they failed one application to make the other one successful! Who knows. You can email them but it says that it will take up to 20 weeks to respond with a reason why it wasn’t successful, anyways, keep your head up!

I have already received an offer for MSc International Development at Manchester, which is one of the best institutions in development studies, so I am not worried about not getting an offer at all. But I am still waiting for decisions from KCL and SOAS, and maybe their offer might change my mind. I still need to wait and think about this but at least I have a decent offer. The reason I liked Edinburgh's international development was its work based project, but I guess it doesn't matter anymore as it was unsuccessful.

My MSc International Development application just failed. Although I still have another course application in process, my desire of studying at Edinburgh is now mostly diminished. I think I will now mainly wait for KCL and SOAS's decision before deciding what offer am I about to take (I have got offers from Manchester and Warwick, but I still want to look at KCL)