The Bartlett Promise Sub-Saharan Africa Master's Scholarship

We will consider your educational, personal and financial circumstances. You will need to demonstrate these in your application. Assessment of applications will be made in relation to the eligibility criteria.

Prospective students who are nationals of Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Republic of Congo, Cote D'Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe are eligible for this award.

The Bartlett Promise aims to enable students from backgrounds which are underrepresented in The Bartlett, to pursue postgraduate studies at The Bartlett, UCL's Faculty of the Built Environment. For The Bartlett Promise Sub-Saharan African scholarship, candidates must:

be a national of one of The Bartlett's approved list of Sub Saharan African (SSA) countries and resident in an eligible SSA country

must not hold a British or dual British citizenship

must not have received at any time in the past or be in receipt of any funding for a master's or equivalent qualification, at any university which is outside The Bartlett's approved list of SSA counties at the time of applying up to 1 October 2026

have an offer of admission to a Bartlett Master's course for study in 2025-26 which is either unconditional or conditional only on English language

be in financial need as assessed by UCL (Assessed household income of less than £42,875)

In addition to these, candidates should ideally also meet at least one of the additional criteria:

be a forced migrant

be the first generation in the family to attend university at undergraduate level

be the first generation in family to attend university at postgraduate level