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Overview
Scholarship type
Need based
Number of scholarships to award
Multiple
Grant
Full tuition waiver + other costs
Scholarship coverage
- tuition fee reduction
Description
Financial support package for students who may have difficulty accessing home fees due to their immigration status.
Benefits
Each scholarship includes:
a full fee-waiver for the entirety of the undergraduate course,
£1,250 per year toward study costs (for the first three years),
a fully-funded pre-sessional English course (to ensure scholars meet IELTS 6.0 requirements).
Eligibility
To be eligible for the Sanctuary Scholarship you must fall into one of the following immigration status groups:
- asylum seeker – a person who has made a claim in the UK for refugee status;
- refugee status OR humanitarian protection without access to home fees and student finance;
- a person who has limited leave to remain (formerly discretionary leave to remain) this could include, for example, unaccompanied asylum seeking children who have reached majority age;
- the dependants of any of the above status groups in recognition that they are also from asylum-seeking or refugee backgrounds.
Scholarship requirements
Disciplines
Any
Locations
United Kingdom
Nationality
British
Study experience required
High school
Age
Unknown
Application
Application deadline
28 Feb 2027
Applications must be submitted by 11.59pm on 28 February.