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