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UCL Student Funding
Offers a range of online information and resources about student finance, funding and support including access to the Alternative Guide to Postgraduate Funding Online.
They also provide one-to-one appointments with a Student Funding Welfare Adviser who can give advice on the hardship fund, access to learning fund, student loans company funding, loans, bursaries and more.
Visit the Fund your Studies website
Additional support from UCL Careers
UCL Careers Extra: Work-Based Bursary
UCL Careers Extra has some funding available to enable UK undergraduate students (home fee status) meeting the criteria below to undertake a work-based learning experience, such as an internship or volunteering within the UK.
Are you a UK undergraduate student (home fee status) who belongs to one or more of the groups listed below?
- Neither parent went to university and you went to a UK state school
- Care leaver
- Carer
- Disabled
- Household income below £25,000 (as declared to Student Finance England)
- Black African, Black Caribbean or mixed Black African/White or Black Caribbean/White
- Received an Access UCL offer
Find out more about the UCL Careers Extra work-based experience bursary
Sign-up to join UCL Careers Extra
UCL Global Internships
Undertaking a summer internship outside of the UK? Financial support is available!
Eligible students can apply for the Global Internships Bursary (£500 one-off payment) or the Erasmus+ Traineeship Grant (up to €520/month) to help cover living costs while you are overseas.
Find out more about Global Internships funding
Additional support from Students' Union UCL
Students' Union UCL Rights & Advice also offer one-to-one appointments with student advisers where you can discuss financial support while studying.
Students' Union UCL Advice Service
UCL Online Careers Library
Visit our online careers library to download our range of help sheets* on further study/funding plus links to online funding directories.
*Note: This range of helpsheets plus other postgraduate study guides/funding directories are also available to collect from UCL Careers.
Come to an event
Our Career Essentials programme, (repeated throughout the year), is a series of Careers Consultant led talks aimed at all students and recent graduates which includes a session on finding and funding a PhD.
Get one-to-one advice
Through our 'short guidance' appointments, you can meet with one of our careers consultants to discuss where you've been looking so far, explore other avenues and get more tailored tips and advice on searching for relevant funding opportunities.