Scholarships and bursaries
In 2012 we will be offering scholarships and bursaries to home students to help you finance your studies and to ensure talented students have the opportunity to study for an undergraduate degree.
In order to receive a scholarship or bursary, you must be studying full-time and paying a tuition fee of £9,000 or £7,800. Bursaries or scholarships are not available to students whose tuition fees are being paid by the NHS, Probation Service or any other body. For full details of eligibility please see our terms a
nd conditions.
Awards are available from the following categories; Academic|, Means-Tested| and Personal Circumstances|. You may receive one award from each of these categories.
Academic scholarships
We are offering £1,000 cash per year to home students studying full time and paying a tuition fee of £9,000 or £7,800.
The Academic Scholarship is available if you have applied to DMU and enter with 340 UCAS points or more from three A Levels or A2 equivalents e.g. BTEC National Diploma. All tariff points must be achieved in one academic sitting. To retain your scholarship in your second and third year you must receive a pass rate of at least 65 per cent. Keep an eye on this page for more information.
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Access to Higher Education Scholarship
We are offering £1,000 cash per year to home students studying full time and paying a tuition fee of £9,000 or £7,800.
The Access to Higher Education Scholarship is available if you are accepted onto a course with an Access to HE qualification (where it is an entry requirement for the course).
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Faculty ‘High Flyers’ Scholarships
Each Faculty has a range of ‘High Flyers’ Scholarships available on certain courses to students who have applied to DMU and enter with 340 UCAS points or more from three A Levels or A2 equivalents e.g. BTEC National Diploma. All tariff points must be achieved in one academic sitting. £2,000 cash in your first year of study, £1,000 cash for your second and third years, available to home students studying full time and paying a tuition fee of £9,000 or £7,800.
To retain your scholarship in your second and third year you must receive a pass rate of at least 65 per cent.
Available to all students who meet the above criteria and make DMU their first/firm UCAS choice.
Read further information about Faculty 'High Flyers' Scholarships.
Means-tested scholarships
These two awards are based on your household income as determined by Student Finance England (SFE). Therefore it is very important that you apply for your student funding now.
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National Scholarship Programme (NSP)
We are offering £6,000 over three years to 480 home undergraduate students who are studying full-time, and are paying a tuition fee of £7 800 or £9 000.
The NSP is made up of £1,000 cash and £2,000 fee/accommodation waiver in the first year, then a £1,500 fee waiver in each of the following two years.
Part-time students who are new entrants to De Montfort University in 2012/13 and home may also apply for the NSP but will be subject to a reduced award in line with their mode of study.
If you are a full time student applying for the NSP you must be a new entrant to Higher Education in 2012/13, a home student (living in England) and not be sponsored. The accommodation waiver is only available to students living in DMU managed accommodation.
We will initially award the scholarship to students with no household income (identified by SFE). If after this we have not awarded them all, we will consider household incomes of £1–£5,000 and so forth, until all 480 scholarships have been awarded.
If you would like to apply for the NSP please complete and return an application form|. We will be using information from Student Finance England to confirm your household income and therefore it is important that you apply for your student funding now. We expect to receive the income data from August 2012 and we will confirm the NSP awards after this date.
We are offering £1,000 cash per year to home students studying full time and paying a tuition fee of £9,000 or £7,800.
The DMU Bursary is available to anyone whose family income is less than £25,000 and is not in receipt of the NSP.
Personal circumstances
We are offering £1,000 cash per year to home students studying full time and paying a tuition fee of £9,000 or £7,800.
The Care Leavers' Bursary is available to eligible students who come to the university directly from care.
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Estranged Students' Bursary
We are offering £1,000 cash per year to home students studying full time and paying a tuition fee of £9,000 or £7,800.
The Estranged Students' Bursary is available to eligible students who are estranged from their family and have no other source of income.
If you have any queries about the scholarships and bursaries listed above, please contact the Money and Welfare team in the Student Gateway.
Additional awards available
Driven by De Montfort University's Vice-Chancellor, Professor Dominic Shellard, the Vice-Chancellor's Fund reflects his personal interest in the welfare, ambition and potential of all our students.
The fund supports undergraduate students whose studies and university experience will benefit from increased financial support.
Criteria
All full-time undergraduate students are able to apply for the fund. Students will demonstrate potential, commitment and ambition in their approach to life at university and their academic studies through their 500 word personal statement.
Scholarships of £1,000 will be awarded on the basis of sound academic achievement and financial need - results, grades and financial need to be reflected in the personal statement
Scholarships for specific projects will again be provided on the basis of academic achievement, financial need and benefit of the project to the students' studies
The Vice-Chancellor will make the final decision on all awards made.
Nomination procedure
Students will nominate themselves using the Vice-Chancellor’s Fund Application Form| and should describe through their 500 word personal statement how the money will enhance their studies and help them realise their ambitions. Each nomination must be signed off by the student’s course/programme leader or personal tutor.
Applications must be submitted in hard copy format to:
The Advancement Office
0.13 Trinity House
The Gateway
Leicester, LE1 9BH
The deadline for applications is midday on Thursday 31 January 2013 and awards will be made in February 2013.
Please direct any queries regarding the Vice-Chancellor’s Fund Scholarships to the Advancement Office on 0116 250 6422 or email vcfund@dmu.ac.uk|.
De Montfort University (DMU) reserves the right to revise, review or withdraw any of the scholarships, bursaries and other funding listed at any time without prior notice.
All fee, scholarship and support package information is subject to OFFA approval and De Montfort University terms and conditions.