Newcastle College University Centre Scholarship
Scholarship information
Our scholarships provide opportunity for those least likely to study a degree or have the chance to do so and have never studied at degree level before. This criteria is based on socio-economic research.
This is based on our widening access data and UK-wide research. As such, we offer a wide range of scholarships with targeted support for those identified as the least likely to study a degree.
- Students from low household income or low socioeconomic status (Quintile 1)
- Black, Asian and minority ethnic students
- Disabled students
- Woman in STEM
- Care leavers
- Young carers*
- People estranged from their families
- People from Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities
- Refugees
- Asylum seeker**
- Students from military families***
* 'young people aged 14-25 who care, unpaid, for a friend or family member who could not cope without their support’
** NCUC offers the following financial awards each year: Three scholarships for asylum seekers OR those granted discretionary/limited leave to remain following an application for asylum, comprising a full tuition fee waiver
*** 'a person whose parent or carer serves in the Regular Armed Forces, or as a Reservist, or has done at any point during the first 25 years of that person’s life’.