University of Bath 2025 Sanctuary Scholarship for Asylum Seeker living in the UK (Fully funded)

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:

• The Appleton Sanctuary 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

Table of Content

• Summary
• Benefits
• Requirments
• Interview Process
• Application Deadline
• How To Apply

Summary

• Application DeadlineMarch 31, 2025
• Study LevelMasters
• SponsorUniversity of Bath
• City to studyLondon
• School to studyUniversity of Bath
• Eligible CountryAll Countries

Benefits

• A fee waiver covering the full cost of tuition fees
• A bursary up to £18,622

The bursary is designed to help with course-related and living costs, and not with wider costs, for example, legal fees.

Requirements

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:

• UK asylum seeker
• UK discretionary leave to remain (as a result of an asylum application)
• UK limited leave to remain (as a result of an asylum application)

You must also be:

• A new taught postgraduate student starting studies in 2024
• Resident in the UK

You are not eligible if:

• You are able to receive taught postgraduate student loans

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:

• MSc
• MA
• MBA
• stand-alone MRes

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.

Interview Dates and Process

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:

• Barriers to accessing education
• Personal & financial circumstances
• Reasons for study
• Ambitions for the future
• How you will contribute to the University community

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.

 

Application Deadline

March 31, 2025

How To Apply

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1. Apply for an eligible course through the University of Bath, receive a conditional or unconditional offer and accept your offer via your Application Tracker.
2. If you receive an offer, you will need to complete and upload the fee classification questionnaire and evidence of your Asylum Seeker status via your Application Tracker so that the PGT Admissions team can assess your fee status.
3. Apply for the scholarship scheme via the application form.

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.