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 – (opens as a PDF), AND
- 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
Value, benefits, and duration
There are 10 scholarships available in 2025/26. For two of the awards, priority will be given to eligible final year UCL undergraduates.
The value of the bursary is full home tuition fees plus £16,000 maintenance (per year or pro rata for part-time and modular/flexible study modes). Maintenance payments are designed to cover all additional study and living costs. Please check the ‘Additional Costs’ section of the prospectus for your programme. This could include fieldtrips, laptop requirements and additional equipment. If you have any concerns about additional costs please contact the host department of your selected degree programme.
- Scholarship recipients are obliged to inform the UCL Student Funding Office immediately of any other funding they are awarded towards their UCL Master’s degree studies, before or subsequent to the UCL East London Scholarship being awarded.
Selection
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).
How to apply
Full-time or Part-time study: If you are intending to study on a full-time or part-time basis, please visit the Masters Funding Awards (MFA) page for information on how to apply. Please ensure you read the MFA webpage in full, and check the links to the Guidance Notes and Essential Information (FAQ's) which are also available on that page.
Modular/flexible study: As the Masters Funding Awards are not open to students studying on a modular/flexible basis, if you are intending to enrol on that mode of study and would like to be considered for the UCL East London Scholarship please complete this application form: UCL East London application 2025/26 for Modular/Flexible students and refer to the MFA Guidance Notes to assist with the form's questions.
The deadline for applications to this scholarship will be at 5pm BST, Thursday 26 June 2025
Results
Successful candidates for 2025/26 will be notified in late July - early August 2025.
Contact
Informal enquiries about this scholarship can be made to Dr Anne Preston, UCL East London Scholarship Academic Lead, via email to anne.preston@ucl.ac.uk.