One scholarship is available to citizens of Tanzania who are
normally resident in Tanzania for study on a one year Masters programme offered
by the University of Edinburgh.
The Julius Nyerere Scholarship was set up in 2009 in memory
of Mwalimu Julius Nyerere who led Tanganyika to independence in 1961 and became
the first prime minister and later president of Tanzania. Nyerere received a
scholarship in 1949 to attend the University of Edinburgh where he obtained a
Masters of Arts degree that saw him study courses in English, Political
Economy, Social Anthropology, British History, Economic History, Constitutional
Law, and Moral Philosophy.