Gateway To Work Experience Bursary

To be eligible, candidates must:

• Have received an offer and selected the University of Birmingham as their firm choice for a full-time undergraduate programme starting September 2025. The student must be entering the first year of an undergraduate programme based at Birmingham's UK campus.
• Meet the academic conditions of their offer to the programme.
• Be enrolled on a foundation course at KICL in the 2024/25 academic year.
• Be classed by the University as an overseas fee payer for tuition fee purposes and be able to pay the outstanding tuition fees not covered by the scholarship.
• Have sufficient funds to cover the full cost of living at the University of Birmingham, plus any visa/travel expenses associated with studying in the UK.
• Start their studies at the University in September 2025 (the scholarship award cannot be deferred).
• Upon enrolment in September 2025, pay their net tuition fees for the first year by 1 November, immediately following enrolment.

Please note that students already registered and studying on a programme at the University of Birmingham in the UK, and students applying for MBChB Medicine and Surgery or BDS Dental Surgery or any Engineering and Physical Sciences programmes are not eligible for this scholarship. However, the College of Engineering and Physical Sciences offers a wide variety of scholarships and bursaries for undergraduate students, many of which are open to international applicants.

International Year One Engineering, and Pre-masters students are not eligible for this scholarship. The University provides alternative scholarships which may be of interest.