Scholarships and funding

The Bartlett Promise Undergraduate Scholarship provides cross-faculty scholarships for up to ten UK-domiciled students from under-represented backgrounds to pursue their undergraduate studies at The Bartlett.

The KPF Bursary provides £5,000 per year to UK student in financial need from under-represented backgrounds for the three years of the Architecture BSc programme. In addition to the award, KPF will offer mentorship throughout the programme as well as a summer internship at their London office.

The Bartlett Promise Master's Scholarships cover the tuition fees plus an allowance to cover living and study expenses for the normal duration of the master's courses at The Bartlett. All Promise scholars will also receive on-going academic and career support during their study. 

Eligible full-time UK and EU students may be eligible for undergraduate student support from your funding provider for both RIBA Part 1 and RIBA Part 2. 

Read UCL's guidance on funding for RIBA Part 1 and RIBA Part 2 qualifications.

The school offers several sponsored bursaries for Architecture MArch (ARB/RIBA Part 2) students to contribute to their living costs.

Incoming students will be emailed details of these opportunities at the start of Term 1. Current sponsors of these bursaries include Rogers, Stirk, Harbour + Partners and Kohn Pedersen Fox.

Deadline: 10 January 2025, 12pm (GMT)

UCL’s Research Excellence Scholarship (UCL-RES) aims to attract outstanding scholars to undertake doctoral research at UCL. 40 fully funded UCL Research Excellence Scholarships (RES) are available to exceptional applicants from any country. Both prospective and current UCL doctoral students can apply. For full information on the scholarship and application guidance, please consult: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/scholarships/research-excellence-scholarship.

Applicants should submit a Research Excellence Scholarship cover sheet, CV, lay summary, and academic transcripts in ONE PDF FILE to the PhD administrator, Emmy Thittanond, with the subject line in the following format: YOUR NAME – PROPOSED PHD PROGRAMME – RES APPLICATION 2024/25. Please ensure the mandatory documents are in the correct order as listed on the RES webpage. References must be submitted directly to the PhD administrator by your referees. Please ensure your referees are aware of the deadline and use the correct reference forms as per the RES webpage. Incomplete applications will not be accepted after the deadline.

All applicants for the UCL-RES who have an overseas fee status and are permanent residents of the People’s Republic of China will, if eligible, be automatically considered for the UCL-CSC (China Scholarships Council) Joint Scholarship. If you are a permanent resident of China and would not like to be considered for the UCL-CSC, please ensure you inform the PhD administrator of this when submitting your UCL-RES application.

Deadline: 10 January 2025, 12pm (GMT)

The aim of the UCL Research Opportunity Scholarship (UCL-ROS) is to address under-representation and help improve equality, diversity and inclusion in UCL’s post-graduate research student body. The scholarship offers full financial support and a skills development programme, both designed to promote academia as a more attractive career option. The scholarship is run jointly by the UCL Student Funding Office and the UCL Equality, Diversity and Inclusion team, in collaboration with the Windsor Fellowship. For the 2025/26 academic year we are offering 7 fully funded UCL-Research Opportunity Scholarships. To apply, you must be a UK-permanent resident from certain Black, Asian, and minority ethnic groups under-represented at UCL, please see list here. Both prospective and current UCL doctoral students can apply.

For full information on the scholarship and application guidance, please consult: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/scholarships/ucl-research-opportunity-scholarship.

Applicants must submit a UCL-ROS cover sheet to the PhD administrator, Emmy Thittanond, with the subject line in the following format: YOUR NAME - PROPOSED PHD PROGRAMME - ROS APPLICATION 2024/25.

LAHP is a Doctoral Training Partnership co-funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and eight Higher Education Institution (HEI) partners which includes University College London. LAHP funds up to 90 PhD studentships each year at these HEIs in subjects across the Arts & Humanities. LAHP welcomes applications from home and overseas (including EU) applicants. If you have already commenced your doctoral study, you may apply for funding for the remainder of your study, providing at the start of the AHRC award, you will have 50% of the period of study remaining (excluding the ‘writing up period’).

For full information on the open studentship competition and application guidance, please consult: https://www.lahp.ac.uk/prospective-students/how-to-apply-for-an-open-studentship/. Information sessions will be held in November and December 2024. Further information on these will be updated on their webpage in due course. Applications will open in December 2024. Once open, a link will be provided for applications to be made via the LAHP application portal.

The UCL EPSRC DTP studentships aims to recruit outstanding students to undertake fully funded PhD projects at UCL. All studentships are fully funded for 4 years. They provide: 4 years fees (Home rate), maintenance stipend at the UCL EPSRC DTP enhanced rate, and Research Training Support Grant (RTSG). This is to cover additional costs of training e.g. courses, project costs, conferences, travel. For overseas fee status students, a UCL award covers the fee difference between the Home and international fee rate. Students will be registered for 4 years and are expected to submit their thesis within the 4-year funded period. The project should be designed and supervised to facilitate this. For part time students, the stipend and duration will be adjusted pro-rata (e.g. a 50% FTE student will receive 50% of stipend for up to 8 years).  The Bartlett School of Architecture is now offering the following EPSRC DTP PhD project - Equitable movement and navigation modelling. The supervisors for this project are Professor Sean Hanna and Dr Fiona Zisch. For further details on the project including the project summary please see here The UCL EPSRC DTP 2025/26 webpage will be updated in due course with relevant information for prospective applicants to review for the recruitment process.

Deadline: 16 May 2025, 23:45 (BST)

The Bartlett Promise aims to enable UK-domiciled students from backgrounds underrepresented in The Bartlett, UCL’s Faculty of the Built Environment to pursue a PhD at The Bartlett. Up to four scholarships are available to prospective students starting in October 2025. The scholarship covers full tuition fees plus an annual allowance to cover living and study expenses for the normal duration of the programme at UCL, excluding the writing up year(s). All Promise scholars will also receive on-going academic and career support during their study. We will consider your educational, personal, and financial circumstances which you will need to demonstrate in your application. Assessment of applications will be made in relation to the eligibility criteria. Once you have an offer of admission to a Bartlett MPhil/PhD programme you can apply for The Bartlett Promise MPhil/PhD Scholarship. You will be asked to submit your UCL offer of admission letter when you apply to The Bartlett Promise. The application form will be open from 01 February 2025 to 16 May 2025, 23:45 (BST).

For full information on the scholarship and application guidance, please consult: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/study/funding-and-scholarships/bartlett-promise-scholarship/bartlett-promise-phd-scholarship.

Deadline: Thursday 26 June 2025, 10:00am BST

The Michael James Scholarship Award will provide one scholarship to enable a full-time UK domiciled student to pursue a postgraduate research degree in Architectural and Urban History and Theory at the Bartlett School of Architecture. The Scholarship will be based on academic merit and financial need. Applicants who are in full-time employment and/or have a scholarship for 2025-26 are not eligible to apply. The Michael James Scholarship has been established via The Amar-Franses & Foster-Jenkins Trust, and will contribute £30,000 towards the fees and maintenance costs over the three-year course of the recipient’s PhD degree. The recipient must start in the 2025-26 academic year (start dates: 01 October 2025 or 01 February 2026 only) and will receive £30,000 in total to support their postgraduate studies. Applicants must be in receipt of an offer of admission to the Bartlett School of Architecture on the MPhil/PhD Architectural and Urban History and Theory programme.

Please contact the PhD administrator, Emmy Thittanond, for further information on the application process.