September 2025
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This scholarship is a fee-waiver*
BA (Hons), BSc (Hons), BEng (Hons), MEng
1 award per year
22 April 2025
(first award)
The Cowrie Scholarship Foundation (CSF) will offer a scholarship to support Black African and Caribbean heritage applicants from socio-economically under-represented backgrounds. Applicants must be ordinarily resident in the UK and commencing undergraduate study in the academic year 2025/2026.
This scholarship is a fee-waiver, meaning the successful applicants tuition fees will be covered and £8,000 will be provided each academic year to support with maintenance for up to three-years of study. Applicants must be a UK/Home student.
The Cowrie Scholarship Foundation wants to fund over 100 talented disadvantaged Black British students through UK universities in the next decade.
The scholarship will cover your home UK tuition fees and a maintenance stipend of up to £8,000 for each year of your course. The scholarship is tenable for the duration of your programme of study, subject to satisfactory progression.
We welcome applications from UK/Home students considering coming to the Oxford Brookes University for September 2025. To apply for this scholarship, you must meet all the following criteria to be considered:
This funding is available to students studying on the following courses:
To apply for the Cowrie Scholarship, please complete an application form. The application deadline for the first award is 12 midnight on 22 April 2025.
If you have any additional questions, please email scholarships@brookes.ac.uk