Eligibility Criteria
Applicants to the programme must:
- Be from a Black or Mixed Black ethnic background[1]
- Be considered as a UK student and eligible for Home fee status and have the right to live and work in the UK.
- Be applying, or have applied, to one of the eligible Master's degree courses listed below, to start in the 2024/2025 academic year.
Applicants must either:
- Be in the final year of your undergraduate study on an engineering, or engineering related degree, as per the entry requirements for your chosen Master’s course.
Or:
- If you are a graduate, you must have graduated within the last three years at the time you will enrol on your chosen Master’s course.
Applicants must first meet the eligibility criteria as outlined above. The selection panel has sole discretion in making the selection of the scholarship recipients and will prioritise applicants who are able to demonstrate they are socio-economically disadvantaged.
Evidence could include:
For all applicants:
- During the final year of your undergraduate studies, are you, or were you, in receipt of any kind of funding - scholarship, bursary, grant etc - either from your university or the UK government, that was awarded based on your personal or household financial situation?[2]
For graduates:
- Are you currently in receipt of state benefits? Applicants will be asked to indicate if they are currently in receipt of any state benefits (Housing Benefit, Jobseeker’s Allowance, Child Tax Credit etc) including any that would stop as the result of your studies.
Please note that you may be asked to provide evidence of any such funding, either in the form of an official award notification letter or in the case of state benefits an official government document, if your application is successful.
[1] Black people including those with any mixed ethnicity with Black ethnic background(s)[2] This could include a low-income scholarship or bursary from your university either paid to you or towards your accommodation, a fee waiver, a hardship grant, a non-repayable maintenance grant, a means-tested maintenance loan from Student Finance England etc, as long as the criteria on which these awards were made was low income or hardship.
Eligible Course List
The following list is subject to change (additional courses may also be added).
Eligible courses are:
- Aston University - MSc Future Vehicle Technologies
- Aberystwyth University - Advanced Computer Science
- Aberystwyth University - Computer Science
- Bangor University - Electronic Engineering
- Brunel University London - Automotive and Motorsport Engineering
- Brunel University London - Advanced Electronic and Electrical Engineering
- Brunel University London - Aerospace Engineering
- Canterbury Christ Church University - Advanced Manufacturing Systems & Technology
- Cardiff University - Wireless and Microwave Communication Engineering
- Cardiff University - Software Engineering
- Cardiff University - Advanced Mechanical Engineering
- Cranfield University - Advanced Motorsport Mechatronics
- Cranfield University - Advanced Motorsport Engineering
- Cranfield University - Aerospace Computational Engineering
- Cranfield University - Aerospace Dynamics
- Cranfield University - Aerospace Manufacturing
- Cranfield University - Computational and Software Techniques in Engineering: Computational Engineering Design Option
- Cranfield University - Computational and Software Techniques in Engineering
- Cranfield University - Computational and Software Techniques in Engineering: Software Engineering for Technical Computing Option
- Cranfield University - Computational and Software Techniques in Engineering: Computational Intelligence for Data Analytics Option
- Cranfield University - Computational Fluid Dynamics
- Imperial College London - Advanced Computational Methods for Aeronautics
- King's College London - Data Science
- Kingston University - Aerospace Engineering
- Kingston University - Mechanical Engineering
- Kingston University - Software Engineering
- Kingston University - Data Science
- Kingston University - Information Systems
- Lancaster University - Advanced Mechanical Engineering
- Lancaster University - Electronics Engineering
- Newcastle University - Mechanical Engineering
- Oxford Brookes University - Motorsport Engineering
- Sheffield Hallam University - Advanced Mechanical Engineering
- University of Bath - Automotive Engineering with Electric Propulsion
- University of Glasgow - Aerospace Engineering
- University of Glasgow - Mechanical Engineering
- University of Glasgow - Computer Systems Engineering
- University of Glasgow - Electronics and Electrical Engineering
- University of Hertfordshire - Aerospace Engineering
- University of Hertfordshire - Mechanical Engineering
- University of Hertfordshire - Software Engineering
- University of Leeds - Automotive Engineering
- University of Leeds - Aerospace Engineering
- University of Leeds - Advanced Mechanical Engineering
- University of Leeds - Advanced Computer Science (Artifical Intelligence)
- University of Leeds - Communications and Signal Processing
- University of Leeds - Materials Science and Engineering
- University of Manchester - Advanced Engineering Materials
- University of Manchester - Advanced Control and Systems Engineering
- University of Manchester - Advanced Manufacturing Technology and Systems Management
- University of Manchester - Aerospace Engineering
- University of Nottingham - Electronic Communications and Computer Engineering
- University of Nottingham - Mechanical Engineering
- University of Sheffield - Polymers and Composites
- University of Sheffield - Wireless Communication Systems
- University of Sheffield - Aerospace Materials
- University of Sheffield - Data Communications
- University of Sheffield - Electronic and Electrical Engineering
- University of Sheffield - Advanced Aerospace Technologies
- University of Sheffield - Advanced Mechanical Engineering
- University of Sheffield - Aerospace Engineering
- University of Southampton - Race Car Aerodynamics
- University of Surrey - Electronic Engineering
- University of Sussex - Advanced Mechanical Engineering
- University of Wales Trinity Saint David - Motorsport Engineering
- University of Wales Trinity Saint David - Mechanical Engineering
