The Business School Access Scholarship is based on merit and is available to applicants holding an offer for a taught Masters commencing in September 2026 at the Business School.

Scholarship criteria

We are pleased to offer the Business School Access Scholarship to candidates who:

Meet at least one of our widening participation criteria.
Can demonstrate strong academic performance.
Have strong motivation for the postgraduate degree applied for.
Clearly articulate their future ambitions and goals.

Eligibility

You can apply for the scholarship once you have received an offer (conditional or unconditional) to join one of the eligible programmes and have either firmly accepted the offer or are intending to do so.

The scholarship selection panel will only be able to consider your scholarship application if you hold an active offer throughout your scholarship application process (meaning if your offer is declined at any point up until the scholarship decision deadline you will no longer be eligible). You can only apply to the scholarship once per admissions cycle.

You can request an extension to your deposit payment deadline on the basis of awaiting the outcome of this Business School Access Scholarship application.

You must be a UK national domiciled in the UK.

In addition you must meet at least one of the following eligibility criteria:

You are care-experienced. We define care experience as any time spent in care at any stage of your life. Care may have been provided in one of many different settings, such as if you were:

in residential care
in foster care
in kinship care
looked after at home with a supervision requirement

This includes adopted children who were previously looked after. There is no age restriction on our definition of care experienced.