
Overview
Scholarship type
Number of scholarships to award
Grant
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.
Applicable programmes
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
Locations
Nationality
Study experience required
Age
Application
Application deadline
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.