Care Leavers Bursary

We are offering £1,000 cash per year to home students studying full time and paying a tuition fee of £9,000 or £9,250. The Care Leavers' Bursary is available to eligible students who come to the University directly from care.

1. Be regarded as a home/UK student for tuition fees by DMU.

2. Be studying an eligible, full-time course for which the full tuition fees are being charged to you (i.e. for those starting from 2017/18 and onwards £9250, for those who started in 2014/15, 2015/16, 2016/17 £9,000 or £7,950. £650 (2022) and £1,850 (2023 onwards) for placement students. Fees may be subject to change.

3. Bursaries and scholarships are not available to students whose tuition fees are being paid (in full or partially) by the NHS, Probation Service or any other professional body or any other sponsored students. Discretion may be exercised for Care Leaver and Estranged Student bursaries.

4. If you're starting your first year you must apply for student funding for that academic year within nine months of the start of the course, or within nine months of the start of the academic year if you are a returning student.

5. Your Student Finance England (SFE)/Student Loans Company (SLC) record must be in a position for the scholarship and/ or bursary allocation to be made and paid (see point 19 for further details).

6. Scholarships are not available if you have studied in higher education previously. This is a general condition, however, individual circumstances may be considered.

7. Scholarships are awarded on the basis of the qualifications on which the student has gained entry to DMU (i.e. the qualifications included in the students offer, not other qualifications the student may have studied).