Scholarships and funding
AHRC Doctoral Landscape Awards in the Arts and Humanities
The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funds outstanding original research across the arts and humanities. The University of York is pleased to be awarding six of these AHRC Doctoral Landscape awards to fund students beginning their doctoral research.
Architecture Academic Excellence Scholarships
This award recognises the academic excellence of your application by offering a scholarship during your first year of study.
COLFUTURO Scholarship Loan programme
We grant a 25% tuition fee discount to most COLFUTURO-sponsored postgraduate students. You can combine this with most University of York partial scholarships.
Canada Graduate Research Scholarship - Doctoral Program
The Canada Graduate Research Scholarship - Doctoral Program supports research excellence in a wide variety of disciplines and broad fields of health, natural sciences and engineering and social sciences and humanities, including interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research.
Commonwealth Scholarship
The University of York is a host university for the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission. Various opportunities are available throughout the year. The majority of awards are funded by the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.
John Monash Scholarship
The John Monash Scholarship provides yearly funding to outstanding postgraduate taught and research students from Australia.
Tan Kah Kee Scholarship
The Tan Kah Kee Scholarship offers postgraduate scholarships for Singapore citizens and permanent residents pursuing full-time PhD or Masters degrees.
Extracurricular funding
While not directly related to your studies, these opportunities can help you get the most from your time at York.
Yorkshire Bach Choir
We are now accepting applications for our choral scholarship scheme. The 12-month scholarships will be open to all four voice parts.
York Minster Choral Scholarships
York Minster offers choral scholarships lasting 12 months or longer.
Previous funding opportunities
These opportunities are closed to applications. They may reopen in future years.
- WRoCAH funding
- York School of Architecture fully funded PhD studentship
- BBSRC White Rose DTP (WR DTP) in Mechanistic Biology: Diverse Talent Scholarships
- Beca Carlos Quijano
- Canadian Centennial Scholarship Fund
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Doctoral Foreign Study Award
- Cowrie Foundation Scholarship
- Equal Access Scholarship (undergraduate)
- Global Impact Undergraduate Scholarship
- Gowrie bursary
- IODE War Memorial Scholarships
- India Undergraduate Global Opportunities Scholarship
- Jansons Scholarships
- Marshall Scholarship
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Doctoral Fellowships
- Overseas PhD Scholarships for University of the Punjab in service non-PhD teachers
- Rem@ke PhD Studentship
- Roberta Sykes scholarship
- Santander Scholarship Programme
- Santander | British Council Online English Course 2026
- Snowdon Masters Scholarship
- York Global Clearing Scholarship
- York Graduate Research School PhD Scholarship
Wolfson Humanities Scholarship
With generous funding from the Wolfson Foundation, the Wolfson Postgraduate Scholarships fund doctoral research in three areas: History, Literature and Languages.
BAföG
German students may be able to obtain funding through BAföG for postgraduate courses that can usually be completed within one year, such as a one-year masters.
COLFUTURO Scholarship Loan programme
We grant a 25% tuition fee discount to most COLFUTURO-sponsored postgraduate students. You can combine this with most University of York partial scholarships.
Canada Graduate Research Scholarship - Doctoral Program
The Canada Graduate Research Scholarship - Doctoral Program supports research excellence in a wide variety of disciplines and broad fields of health, natural sciences and engineering and social sciences and humanities, including interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research.
Care Leavers and Estranged Students Bursary
This bursary is for students who are under 25 when they start their studies, and who also meet one of the following conditions: come to York as a care leaver (or through the national Foyer Federation), or who are irreconcilably estranged from their parents (or both parents have passed away).
Commonwealth Scholarship
The University of York is a host university for the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission. Various opportunities are available throughout the year. The majority of awards are funded by the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.
Global Impact Undergraduate Scholarship
York is offering scholarships to international undergraduate students to help them excel.
Joan Samuels Scholarship
Two awards, to be paid as a living cost stipend, for two postgraduate taught students or postgraduate researchers with a disability each academic year.
John Monash Scholarship
The John Monash Scholarship provides yearly funding to outstanding postgraduate taught and research students from Australia.
Norwegian State Educational Loan Fund Lånekassen
The Ministry provides grants and loans for higher education study outside of the Nordic region.
Saïd Foundation Scholarship
The Saïd Foundation awards fully-funded scholarships to outstanding individuals from Syria, Jordan, Lebanon and Palestine looking to study a one-year Masters in the UK.
Tan Kah Kee Scholarship
The Tan Kah Kee Scholarship offers postgraduate scholarships for Singapore citizens and permanent residents pursuing full-time PhD or Masters degrees.
Undergraduate Commuter Award
The Commuter Award supports eligible students who live at home and travel to campus, helping to reduce the financial impact of commuting during their first year at the University of York.
York Bursary
Depending on your household residual income you could be eligible for our non-repayable York bursary.
York Sanctuary Bursary
The Sanctuary Bursary, formally known as the York Refugee Bursary, is a non-repayable award for eligible undergraduate students with Home Fee Status.