Prospective students who are nationals of Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Republic of Congo, Cote D'Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe are eligible for this award.
The Bartlett Promise aims to enable students from backgrounds which are underrepresented in The Bartlett, to pursue postgraduate studies at The Bartlett, UCL's Faculty of the Built Environment. For The Bartlett Promise Sub-Saharan African scholarship, candidates must:
be a national of one of The Bartlett's approved list of Sub Saharan African (SSA) countries and resident in an eligible SSA country
must not hold a British or dual British citizenship
must not have received at any time in the past or be in receipt of any funding for a master's or equivalent qualification, at any university which is outside The Bartlett's approved list of SSA counties at the time of applying up to 1 October 2026
have an offer of admission to a Bartlett Master's course for study in 2025-26 which is either unconditional or conditional only on English language
be in financial need as assessed by UCL (Assessed household income of less than £42,875)
In addition to these, candidates should ideally also meet at least one of the additional criteria:
be a forced migrant
be the first generation in the family to attend university at undergraduate level
be the first generation in family to attend university at postgraduate level
