Scholarships and funding

These scholarships and studentships are available to students in the School for Business and Society.

Scholarships open and close throughout the year. Opportunities will be advertised here as they become available.

Your chosen course, level of study and other statuses may all affect your eligibility for the opportunities listed below.

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Funding opportunities open and close throughout the year. These previous scholarships will give you an idea of what may become available.

Undergraduate

York Actuarial Scholarship

This scholarship is designed to support academically talented students from lower-income households studying Actuarial Science at York.

  • Funding: £3,000 per year
  • Academic year: 2023/24
  • Open to: UK (home) students
  • Number available: 1

York Accounting, Business Finance and Management Scholarship

This scholarship is designed to support academically talented students from lower-income households studying Accounting, Business Finance and Management at York.

  • Funding: £3,000 per year
  • Academic year: 2023/24
  • Open to: UK (home) students
  • Number available: 1

Holbeck scholarships

These scholarships are open to pupils from schools and colleges in the Yorkshire and Humber region, who are applying to any UK university (not just York) for entry in September 2023.

  • Funding: £1,500
  • Academic year: 2023/24
  • Application deadline: Friday 12 May 2023, 11.59pm BST
  • Open to: UK (home) students
  • Number available: Competitive

York Bursary

Depending on your household residual income you could be eligible for our non-repayable York bursary.

  • Funding: Annual award over the course of your degree
  • Academic year: 2022/23
  • Open to: UK (home) students

Care Leavers and Estranged Students Bursary

This bursary is for students aged under 25, who come to York as care leavers or who are irreconcilably estranged from their parents.

  • Funding: Annual awards over the duration of your course
  • Academic year: 2022/23
  • Open to: UK (home) students

York Refugee Bursary

The Refugee Bursary is a non-repayable award for students who come to York and have a Refugee immigration status.

  • Funding: Annual award over course of degree
  • Academic year: 2022/23
  • Open to: UK (home) students

Equal Access Scholarships for undergraduates

We're pleased to offer two Equal Access Scholarships for undergraduate students who are seeking refuge in the UK. Please note that you must have applied to the University of York before submitting an application for this scholarship.

  • Funding: £12,300 living costs plus a full fee waiver
  • Academic year: 2023/24
  • Application deadline: Tuesday 25 April 2023, 9am BST
  • Open to: Students from
  • Number available: 2

Be Exceptional 60th Anniversary scholarships

To celebrate our 60th anniversary, we're offering tuition fee discounts to international students.

  • Funding: £7,500
  • Academic year: 2023/24
  • Application deadline: Monday 12 June 2023, 11.59pm BST
  • Open to: International (including EU) students

Postgraduate taught

Postgraduate 60th Anniversary scholarship

We award many international scholarships per year, recognising achievement by applying a tuition fee discount.

  • Funding: £5,000, £7,500 and £10,000
  • Academic year: 2023/24
  • Open to: International (including EU) students

York Graduate Loyalty Discount

If you've previously studied at the University of York, you could be eligible for a tuition fee discount for postgraduate taught courses.

  • Funding: Ten per cent tuition fee discount
  • Academic year: 2023/24
  • Open to: International (including EU) and UK (home) students

GREAT Scholarships

We're offering eight scholarships for students from China, Ghana, India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Thailand and Turkey in partnership with the British Council and the GREAT Britain Campaign.

  • Funding: £10,000
  • Academic year: 2023/24
  • Application deadline: Monday 15 May 2023, 12pm BST
  • Open to: Students from China, Ghana, India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Thailand and Turkey
  • Number available: 8

Tom and Eileen House Scholarship

Thanks to the generous support of alumnus Richard House, we can help ensure that the opportunity to study for a Masters degree is open to all.

  • Funding: £5,000 or £1,000
  • Academic year: 2023/24
  • Application deadline: Wednesday 31 May 2023, 5pm BST
  • Open to: UK (home) students
  • Number available: 4

Maria Bourboulis Scholarship

The Maria Bourboulis scholarship fund is awarded in memory of York Alumna Maria Bourboulis – to continue to support Social Policy and Sociology students.

  • Funding: Fee waiver + £4,050 stipend (paid in quarterly instalments). The scholarship covers a fee waiver at the home or international tuition fee rate.
  • Academic year: 2023/24
  • Application deadline: Friday 30 June 2023, 4pm BST
  • Open to: International (including EU) and UK (home) students

Commonwealth Scholarships

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.

  • Funding: various
  • Academic year: 2023/24
  • Open to: Students from Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belize and more (see eligibility)

Snowdon Masters Scholarship

The Snowdon Trust Masters Scholarship has been designed to identify and accelerate exceptional disabled students through higher education, creating the influencers of the future.

  • Funding: up to £30,000
  • Academic year: 2023/24
  • Application deadline: Friday 31 March 2023, 12pm BST
  • Open to: International (including EU) and UK (home) students
  • Number available: up to 12

Equal Access Scholarships for postgraduates

We're pleased to offer one Equal Access Scholarship for a taught postgraduate student seeking refuge in the UK. Please note that you must have applied to the University of York before submitting an application for this scholarship.

  • Funding: £14,880 living costs plus a full fee waiver
  • Academic year: 2023/24
  • Application deadline: Tuesday 25 April 2023, 9am BST
  • Open to: Students from International (non-EU) residing and seeking sanctuary in the UK
  • Number available: 1

Aziz Foundation scholarships

We are delighted to be partnering with the Aziz Foundation to offer postgraduate scholarships to support British Muslims study at York.

  • Funding: 100% tuition fee coverage at Home rate
  • Academic year: 2023/24
  • Application deadline: Friday 30 June 2023, 12pm BST
  • Open to: UK (home) students

Leverhulme Trade Charities Trust postgraduate bursaries

The Leverhulme Trade Charities Trust offer bursaries to people in financial need and who have a parent or spouse or are employed themselves as a commercial traveller, pharmacist or grocer.

  • Funding: Up to £5,000 per year
  • Academic year: 2023/24
  • Application deadline: Friday 1 September 2023, 5pm BST
  • Open to: UK (home) students

Postgraduate research

York Graduate Research School (YGRS) PhD Scholarships

We're pleased to offer up to six fully-funded PhD scholarships for UK candidates who self-identify as being from a Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic (BAME) background.

  • Funding: Tuition fees at UK (home) rate; UKRI-aligned stipend; research training support grant
  • Academic year: 2023/24
  • Open to: UK (home) students
  • Number available: Up to 6 per year

Fee waiver funding for Joint Doctoral Programme, CITY College, University of York Europe Campus

The University of York and the South-East European Research Centre (SEERC) offer the opportunity for qualified candidates to read for a PhD Degree that combines high-quality UK studies and a unique research infrastructure in South-East Europe.

  • Funding: Fees
  • Academic year: 2023/24
  • Application deadline: Friday 21 April 2023, 11.59pm BST
  • Open to: International (including EU) and UK (home) students

University of York, School for Business and Society, Management PhD Scholarships

Finance your research into business and management with a fee waiver and generous stipend.

  • Funding: Grant equivalent to the Research Council’s UK National Minimum Doctoral Stipend (£16,062 for 2022/23), plus tuition fees
  • Academic year: 2023/24
  • Application deadline: Friday 5 May 2023, 11.59pm BST
  • Open to: International (including EU) and UK (home) students
  • Number available: Three

Commonwealth Scholarships

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.

  • Funding: various
  • Academic year: 2023/24
  • Open to: Students from Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belize and more (see eligibility)

Extracurricular funding

While not directly related to your studies, these opportunities can help you get the most from your time at York.

York Minster Choral Scholarships

York Minster offers choral scholarships lasting 12 months or longer to altos, tenors and basses who are undergraduate or postgraduate students.

  • Funding: £6,338.59
  • Academic year: 2023/24
  • Open to: International (including EU) and UK (home) students

Yorkshire Bach Choir

These awards pay for vocal lessons for any students contributing to ensembles and singing in the Yorkshire Bach Choir. It could also be to increase the lesson allowance of Music students, particularly those who are part-time and specialising in performance.

  • Funding: Variable
  • Academic year: 2023/24
  • Open to: International (including EU) and UK (home) students

St Wilfrid's Church Scholarship

St Wilfrid's Catholic Church offers choral scholarships lasting 12 months for sopranos, altos, tenors and basses to form a quartet.

  • Funding: £1,300
  • Academic year: 2023/24
  • Open to: International (including EU) and UK (home) students
  • Number available: 4

York Minster Choral Scholarships

York Minster offers choral and organ scholarships lasting 12 months or longer to altos, tenors and basses.

  • Funding: £5,740 per annum
  • Academic year: 2023/24
  • Application deadline: Wednesday 22 November 2023, 1.37pm GMT
  • Open to: EU, International (non-EU) and UK (home) students

Other funding

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Funding opportunities open and close throughout the year. These previous scholarships will give you an idea of what may become available.