Manchester United Foundation Scholarship at MMU 2026

This scholarship provides support for Sport and Youth Leadership students who have faced extra challenges in their lives. This could include being the main carer in a family, living with a disability or currently being in receipt of free school meals.

Table of Content

• Summary
• Benefits
• Requirements
• Application Deadline
• How To Apply

Summary

• Application DeadlineAugust 31, 2026
• Study LevelUndergraduate
• SponsorManchester Metropolitan University
• City to studyLondon
• School to studyManchester Metropolitan University
• Eligible CountryUnited Kingdom

Benefits

Full tuition fee waiver and a cash bursary of £1,500 per year for three years.

Requirements

You must:

• Hold a firm offer to study a new full-time course, excluding foundation year and distance learning, in the 2026/27 academic year in BSc (Hons) Sport and Youth Leadership course.
• Have a household income of £42,875 or less. We’ll check this against your Student Finance application. Please contact us if you will not be applying to Student Finance for a maintenance loan.
• Be a UK student, English, Scottish, Welsh or Northern Irish, paying the standard full-time fees, and have a UK Student Support Number.
• Pay for your course yourself, including through a student loan or a payment from your parents. Your course fees must not be paid by a business, charity or other organisation.

You will also need to satisfy one of these criteria:

• Be a First Generation student. From a family where neither your parents nor guardians attended university and got an undergraduate degree or equivalent qualification in the UK or abroad.
• Have experience of local authority care.
• Be a main carer for a family member or dependent.
• Get disability benefits.
• Get the Education Maintenance Allowance or free school meals.
• Permanently live in an area of high deprivation and low participation in higher education. You can check your postcode online, priority will be for those in the lowest POLAR4 young participation quintile, OfS postcode search.
• Be irreconcilably estranged from your parents or not have communicated with them for at least a year before you intend to start your degree.

Check also:
Free Ongoing Fully Funded Scholarships Guide 2026 (Download Now)

Application Deadline

How To Apply

To apply, visit MMU Scholarship webpage