The bursary is awarded on the basis of financial need and upon the recommendation of the Student Funding Office following the assessment of your application. UCL recognises the following as impactors of financial need: dependent children, disabilities, experience of care, receiving state benefits, forced migration (refugee, asylum seeker, those who have been granted a temporary form of leave as the result of an asylum or human rights application).
This scholarship supports the ambitions of east Londoners by funding the fees and living costs of all UCL East Master's programmes and select School of Management programmes.
Eligibility
Students must meet all of the below criteria with no exceptions:
be ordinarily resident in the UK or Ireland and eligible to pay Home fee rate, AND
have submitted a complete admission application (including submission of references) for a full-time, part-time, or modular/flexible Master's degree at UCL beginning in 2025/26 for one of the specified programmes
have an annual household income of £42,875 or less, AND
been a permanent resident for the last five years (since 2020), or have completed GCSE or A-levels, in the following east London boroughs:
- Hackney
- Newham
- Tower Hamlets
- Waltham Forest
