Eligibility criteria
To be eligible for a scholarship, all applicants must meet the following criteria:
- Be UK-domiciled (i.e. living in the UK on a permanent basis).
- Hold (or be completing) an undergraduate degree in engineering, a STEM subject, or a related field, as per the entry requirements for their chosen Master’s course.
- If a graduate, must have graduated from an undergraduate degree within the last five years.
- Be applying (or planning to apply) for an MSc course in motorsport or a related field at a UK university for the 2026/27 academic year.
- Not already hold a Master’s degree (or higher qualification) in a related subject.
Additionally, applicants to the programme must be:
- Black or mixed-Black and/or
- A Woman and/or
- From a less advantaged socio-economic background. This means you meet at least one of the following statements:
- You are from a low-income household and/or
- You were eligible for free school meals whilst at secondary school and/or
- Your permanent residence is in an area of high deprivation and/or
- You are the first in your family to attend university
If you are from a low-income household and meet the threshold set for the programme, you will be asked to provide evidence of this when applying. We would expect this evidence to be a recent student finance letter showing the amount of your maintenance loan. If you are not in receipt of a maintenance loan or are not able to provide this as evidence (if, for example, you graduated within the last five years), you will be required to sign and upload a self-declaration statement to this section.
You can find detailed information about eligibility, as well as the self-declaration, within the Applicant Guidance Notes.
Eligible course list
The eligible course list was created in consultation with the motorsport sector, with consideration given to the technical engineering content within the courses and their relevance to the motorsport sector.
It only contains courses listed on the UCAS website, and not all universities list their courses on this
platform. Therefore, if there is a specific course that you have applied to (or intend to apply to) that isn't
listed, please contact us via [email protected] before starting your application, with full
details of the course. We will review the course for its content and relevance, and if we deem it to be
relevant, we will add it to the list, allowing you and others to apply to the scholarship. We will respond to
any enquiries as soon as possible, and certainly within 10 working days.
When deciding which eligible course to apply for, applicants may wish to consider a range of factors,
including course content, teaching and assessment methods, learning environment, available academic
and pastoral support, and practical considerations such as location and costs.
Some higher education institutions also participate in recognised sector-wide equality and inclusion
frameworks, such as the Athena Swan Charter or the Race Equality Charter. The eligible course list
provides publicly available information about university participation in these frameworks, highlighting
whether or not the university is an award holder or a signatory/member of either charter (at the time of
publication). Further information on these frameworks can be found by clicking on the links and
exploring the relevant websites.
Participation in these frameworks is provided for transparency and may be helpful context for applicants. However, course eligibility and scholarship decisions are based on the published criteria and are not determined by an institution’s charter membership or award status.
Please check our eligible course list to see which Master's degrees you can undertake as part of this scholarship.
[1] Black people including those with any mixed ethnicity with Black ethnic background(s).
[2] Women includes (a) anyone who was assigned female at birth, and (b) trans women.
[3] Your household income is up to £40,000. Rounded up, this is the highest of the published median gross annual salary figures for full-time employees across all devolved nations in 2025 (England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland)