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The Chris Seymour Bursary

The Chris Seymour Bursary aims to provide one bursary to enable a female UK domiciled student to pursue an undergraduate degree at UCL within Electronic & Electrical Engineering.

Key information

Value: £9,535 per year to cover tuition fees up to 4 years
Available to: Prospective students
Selection criteria: Financial need and disadvantaged background
Eligible students: UK domiciled with Home fee status
Eligible programmes: Specified undergraduate programmes (see below)
Deadline: 5pm BST, Monday 7 July 2025

Eligibility

Eligible candidates must:

  • be domiciled in the UK with Home fee status;
  • be from a disadvantaged background;
  • be a female student on an undergraduate degree at UCL within Electronic and Electrical Engineering Department, including students enrolled on the Engineering Foundation Year, BEng or MEng programmes.

Value, benefits, and duration

The award provides £9,535 per year for up to 4 years undergraduate programme and is subject to satisfactory academic progress. The award will be applied to tuition fees. If the student is starting with the Engineering Foundation Year, where the fees are £6000, the remainder will go towards living costs in that year.


Selection

The criterion for awarding the bursary is financial need and you will need to demonstrate this in the application.


How to apply

The Chris Seymour Bursary is one of the schemes that make up the Undergraduate Funding and Access Awards (UGFA).

To be considered for a Chris Seymour Bursary, please follow the procedure on the UGFA webpage.


Results

The UGFAs will be awarded by recommendation by a panel composed of UCL staff. The successful candidates will be notified as soon as decisions are made by mid-September.