Published: 13 Feb 2025 661 views
If you are an asylum seeker living in the UK, you may be eligible for a scholarship to pay for your taught postgraduate fees and a bursary.
For the 2024/25 academic year, the University of Bath will offer one Scholarship:
Scholarships are for taught postgraduate master’s students who are seeking asylum in the UK, and who are not eligible to receive postgraduate financial support from Student Finance
The University of Bath is a public university located in Bath, Somerset, United Kingdom. It received its Royal Charter in 1966 and can trace its roots to a technical school established in Bristol in 1856.
The bursary is designed to help with course-related and living costs, and not with wider costs, for example, legal fees.
Immigration status
You can apply for a Sanctuary Scholarship if you hold one of the following eligible immigration statuses before submitting your application to study at Bath. This is either in your own right or as a dependent of someone with this status:
You must also be:
You are not eligible if:
You may be eligible to apply for and receive UK taught postgraduate student loans even if you have these immigration statuses. For information and guidance visit the UKCISA advice pages. If you have already been granted Refugee Status or Humanitarian Protection Status, you can apply for financial support from Student Finance England.
Eligible programmes of study
To be eligible for the scholarship, you must have applied to study a full-time or part-time course with the degree outcome of:
This includes programmes with a combined Pre-sessional English course.
Please note that these conditions can only be met for courses completed in a maximum duration of two years for full-time programmes or four years for part-time programmes. Part-time programmes must be studied at a minimum of 50% intensity (for example, a programme which would take one year if studied full-time can take up to two years if studied part-time). Distance Learning programmes are also not eligible for this scheme.
Selection will be based on the information submitted in your scholarship application and other contextual information, as provided in your application to study at Bath.
The selection panel will select applicants on behalf of the University, those deemed to be in greatest need will be selected in their discretion. The panel will take into consideration:
This is a competitive process and only two applicants will be successful.
A panel of senior staff from the University and Students’ Union will select applicants for interview and will take into consideration a range of criteria.
Shortlisted applicants will be invited for interview following the meeting of the selection panel.
We aim to inform all applicants of the outcome of their scholarship application by the end of July.
Applying for a master's course at Bath
You can apply for courses using the ‘Apply now’ button on each course page.
When you're completing the University's application form to study a course, make sure you use the 'Finance' section to say that you want to be considered for the Sanctuary Scholarship.
The PGT Admissions team will email you with the outcome of your course application.
Find out more about applying for taught postgraduate courses.
Applying for the scholarship scheme
Please complete the Post-Graduate Sanctuary Scholarship Online form.
Application deadline
Applications for the 2025 scholarship close on 31 March 2025.
For more details visit: University of Bath website.