Bath Spa Bursary

We will use the postcode provided to Student Finance for their assessment prior to your first year of study.
Your household income must be assessed and evidenced by Student Finance as below £15,000, £25,000 or £42,875 when first enrolled on the course
You must be domiciled in England, Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland.

You will not be eligible for the award if:

You're a student from the EU or an international student
You have any formal sponsorship agreement with anyone other than Student Finance
You do not have a full tuition fee loan within 2 weeks of starting the course, unless you have paid your tuition fees already
You're transferring course, transferring institution or restarting a course
You are not engaging or maintaining attendance on your course after the award has been made.

Non-repayable grants to help you with education costs.

The Bath Spa Bursary is on offer to home UK undergraduate students studying with us.

The scheme is part of Bath Spa University's Access Agreement with the Government, and is aimed at widening access to degree courses by removing financial barriers to education for students from under-represented groups.

Please note that Bath Spa does not award bursaries based only on low-income.

What you need to know

The bursary is a cash award based on income
In years two and three, the continuation of the award under this scheme will be subject to a student continuing to fulfil the eligibility criteria, including the residual household income thresholds, at the start of each academic year
Students who repeat a year will not be entitled to a bursary in that year
If requested, students may arrange to take their award as a fee waiver.

Criteria

Students must be assessed for an award in their first year of study (foundation year if applicable) and this includes any eligible students who were not automatically selected.

Students must also continue to meet the eligibility criteria during subsequent years of study in order to receive payments after their first year.

If eligible, part-time students will receive a bursary award that is proportional to their intensity of study.

The criteria is all of the following:

You must be a first time undergraduate degree student in your first year of study (including foundation year)
You must not hold a degree or higher qualification
Immediately before you started your studies, you must have lived in an area of low higher education participation based on POLAR4 or Adult HE (Quintile 1 and 2) as determined by the Office for Students, before starting your studies.