Featured byLeeds Beckett University
Overview
Scholarship type
Need based
Number of scholarships to award
Multiple
Grant
GBP 1,000
Scholarship coverage
- tuition fee reduction
Description
Sir Bob Murray CBE is the Chancellor of Leeds Beckett University, and qualified as a chartered certified accountant from our university in 1972. He is a leading businessman, and personally supports this scholarship due to his enduring passion for the transformative power of education. The Sir Bob Murray CBE Scholarship are awarded to support first year students studying accounting or finance related courses, coming from the north of England.
Benefits
The Sir Bob Murray CBE Scholarship is a cash award of £1,000 to five first year students.
Eligibility
The scholarship is open to applications from students who meet the criteria below:
- Be the first in their immediate family to attend university.
- Have a household income of less than £25,000.
- Be a high achiever in their A-Level or equivalent studies, having achieved 128 UCAS points or higher.
- Be in their first year of study of their first undergraduate degree.
- Be studying an accounting or finance related degree.
- Have a permanent home address in the North of England in one of the following postcodes: BD, DH, DL, HD, HG, HU, HX, LS, NE, S, SR, TS, WF, YO.
Scholarship requirements
Disciplines
Any
Locations
United Kingdom
Nationality
Any
Study experience required
High school
Age
Unknown
Application
Application deadline
09 Nov 2027
Students who are eligible to apply, according to information on their student record, will be contacted via their student email address and applications will be online through MyHub.
Applications will open between 20 October – 9 November. If your application is successful you will be invited to an interview. Interview dates for this scholarship will be between 24 November – 7 December. Specific dates and times will be confirmed when applicants are successfully shortlisted for interview. Successful scholars will be notified by 19 December.