Financial Assistance and Scholarships

Postgraduate students finance their education through a combination of financial assistance, scholarship and loans. Sotheby's Institute of Art offers a range of financial assistance through both needs-based (financial assistance) and merit-based (Scholarship) awards across all postgraduate-level programmes. All candidates may apply for financial assistance on a rolling basis. Scholarship awards are highly competitive and have a deadline for submission. Funds for scholarship and financial assistance are offered to those who have already received an offer of a place on one of the MA programmes that will be taught at Sotheby's Institute of Art during the 2012-13 academic year.

Financial Assistance

After you have received an offer from the Institute you may submit a request to be considered for financial assistance. These funds are intended to provide some assistance to students in paying their fees to attend our postgraduate courses but we do not fully fund student’s studies.

Once you have downloaded and submitted the Financial Assistance form you should receive an answer within two weeks of your application.

Download the Scholarship-Finance form

Scholarship Offerings

Sotheby's Institute Scholarship
As part of the scholarship application, we require students to submit a Scholarship-Finance Form and the required accompanying essay. The essay question can be found on this form as well. The scholarship application and essay are due on or before 11.59pm on March 31st 2012.

The Lynne Newman Fund
Sotheby’s Institute of Art is pleased to announce a generous grant from The Lynne Newman Fund to support new scholarships and financial assistance for degree candidates in select programmes at the Institute’s campuses in London and New York.

The Lynne Newman Fund funds will specifically support students interested in the close observation of objects in relationship to their historical significance, to art patronage, and their relevance to contemporary art markets.

Students are invited to apply for The Lynne Newman Fund scholarships and financial aid for the academic year 2012/2013. These will provide up to a full semester’s tuition for qualified students.

A grant from The Lynne Newman Fund has made additional funding available to full-time students who demonstrate both academic promise and financial need and who intend to matriculate for the MA degree in one of the following programmes: Fine & Decorative Art; East Asian Art;* Photography;* Contemporary Design. (*These programs are only offered at the London campus.)