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Newcastle University 2023 Sanctuary Scholarships

Newcastle University is proud to support equal access to higher education and is pleased to offer Sanctuary scholarships consisting of full tuition fee support and a bursary for living expenses for applicants wishing to study at the University.

The scholarships have been designed to enable students from asylum-seeker and refugee backgrounds to progress to higher level study.

About Newcastle University

Newcastle University (Officially, the University of Newcastle upon Tyne) is a public research university located in Newcastle upon Tyne in the North-East of England. The university can trace its origins to a School of Medicine and Surgery (later the College of Medicine), established in 1834, and to the College of Physical Science (later renamed Armstrong College), founded in 1871. These two colleges came to form one division of the federal University of Durham, with the Durham Colleges forming the other. The Newcastle colleges merged to form King's College in 1937. In 1963, following an Ac... continue reading

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Sanctuary Scholarships

Application Deadline15 Apr 2023
Country to studyUnited Kingdom
School to studyNewcastle University
TypeUndergraduate
SponsorNewcastle University
GenderMen and Women

Aim and Benefits of Sanctuary Scholarships

Scholarsip covers full tuition fees and living expenses 


Requirements for Sanctuary Scholarships Qualification

  1. The following categories of applicants can apply under this scheme:
    • asylum seekers
    • children of asylum seekers and unaccompanied asylum-seeking children (eg children migrants under 18)*
    • applicants with refugee status (ineligible for Student Finance government funding)

      *Applicants who have been granted Humanitarian Protection, Discretionary Leave to Remain as a result of an application for asylum, or the children of a parent in this position, will also be considered.

  2. Applicants must be living in the UK at the time that they apply for consideration under the scheme. Priority will be given to applicants from the North East of England (Tyne and Wear, County Durham, Northumberland, Cleveland and North Cumbria).

  3. Applicants must have applied for a place on a Newcastle University degree programme. Priority will be given to applicants applying for their first degree.

  4. Their predicted grades must meet the entry requirements for the degree concerned.

    Applicants who hold qualifications from outside the UK are welcome to use our International Webpages. Start by Selecting your Country to find the typical Undergraduate and Postgraduate entry requirements, before you apply to Newcastle.

    Should you have any further questions about our entry requirements, please do get in touch via the below links and we will be happy to help:-

    Enquiries about Undergraduate Study

    Enquiries about Postgraduate Study

  5. Applicants must meet the English language criteria for their course or have relevant qualifications to indicate their English language competency. Find out more about English language support. 

    Personal circumstances will be taken into account if there is good reason for criterion 4 or 5 not being met.

  6. Applicants must be unable to access mainstream funding, for example from Student Finance England or a local authority grant.

These criteria have been discussed and agreed with the Asylum and Migration Justice Forum.

Application Deadline

April 15, 2023


How to Apply

For more details, visit Newcastle University website.

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