Featured byManchester Metropolitan University
Overview
Scholarship type
Need based
Number of scholarships to award
One
Grant
Full tuition fee waiver
Scholarship coverage
- tuition fee reduction
Description
The Sanctuary Scholarship is designed to support students seeking asylum in the UK who face barriers to accessing higher education. It is available to new full-time undergraduate students and includes ongoing immigration support from the University's International team.
Benefits
Value: Full tuition fee waiver and £6,000 maintenance allowance for three years of study, for one student.
Eligibility
You must:
- Hold a firm offer to study a new full-time undergraduate course, excluding foundation year and distance learning.
- Meet the English language requirements of your offer.
- Not currently hold an equivalent level qualification to the one you are holding an offer for.
- Not have an offer to support your course fees from a business, charity, or other organisation
- Be unable to access mainstream funding such student finance or a local authority grant. Scholarship awards will be paid until you are awarded status that entitles them to access mainstream funding.
- Currently live within a reasonable commuting distance of Manchester, and able to commute to Manchester Met through the duration of your studies.
Have the right to study in the UK and your current immigration status can be described as either:
- Discretionary leave to remain.
- Awaiting a decision on application for refugee status: asylum seeker.
- Leave as an unaccompanied asylum-seeking child.
- Refused asylum seeker: application for refugee status has been denied and a fresh claim is in process.
Scholarship requirements
Disciplines
Any
Locations
United Kingdom
Nationality
Any
Study experience required
High school
Age
Unknown
Application
Application deadline
31 Aug 2026
Applicants must:
Hold a firm offer to study at Manchester Metropolitan University.
Read the application guidance.
Complete the online scholarship application form.