The City Law School Dean's Scholarship for Academic Excellence 2026

The City Law School is firmly committed to a generous programme of scholarships awarded on the basis of academic excellence. The Dean's Scholarship offers a full-fee scholarship to the most outstanding candidates across all postgraduate and professional programmes in The City Law School.

Table of Content

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

Summary

• Application DeadlineJune 15, 2026
• Study LevelMasters
• SponsorCity University London
• City to studyLondon
• School to studyCity University London
• Eligible CountryAll Countries

Benefits

A full-fee scholarship

Requirements

• You must hold an upper second or first degree (or international equivalent)
• You must hold an offer of a place on one of the courses specified below at The City Law School. The offer can be conditional or unconditional and you do not need to have accepted your place in order to apply for a scholarship
• You can be of any fee paying status (Home, or international) and be studying full-time or part-time.

Please note, students who gain exemptions from modules on the Graduate Diploma in Law programme are not eligible for this scholarship. If you move onto the exemption version of programme the scholarship will no longer be valid.

If you are applying for the Graduate Entry LLB, the scholarship application is only available to those who hold an offer of a place on the UCAS web portal.

Eligible courses

• Bar Vocational Studies (BVS) Full-time
• Bar Vocational Studies (BVS) Part-time
• Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL)
• Graduate Entry LLB (GE LLB)
• LLM (Master of Laws)
• Solicitors’ Practice Programme

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Application Deadline

June 15, 2026

How To Apply

Are you qualified and interested in this opportunity? Kindly go to City University London on cityunilondon.eu.qualtrics.com to apply

Students with an offer for the BVS or SPP will be able to apply for a scholarship from November. You will receive a specific deadline to apply for an award when you are made an offer.

Offer holders on the GELLB, GDL and LLM programmes will not be contacted to apply for scholarship, however you are welcome to apply once you have received an offer and before the deadlines mentioned below.

Students should submit one application that will be considered for both the City Law School Dean’s Scholarship for Academic Excellence and the City Law School Scholarship for Academic Excellence.

NOTE: If a BVS or SPP student has been awarded a City Law School Scholarship for Academic Excellence earlier in the year, they will be considered for an upgrade to City Law School Dean’s Scholarship for Academic Excellence in June.

Students awarded a City Law School Dean’s Scholarship for Academic Excellence are not also eligible for the award of either the BVS Scholarship or the SPP Scholarship. You will receive only the highest value award.

Application deadlines:

• BVS & SPP

  • Please check your offer email to confirm the application deadline

• Graduate Entry LLB

  • 11 May 2026

• Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL)

  • 15 June 2026

• LLM

  • 10 November 2025 (January 2026 intake only).

  • 15 June 2026 (for September 2026 intake only)

For more details, visit City University Scholarship webpage