Manchester Bursary
Key information
- Cash payment
- £1,300 or £2,600 per academic year
- Award length
- Duration of UG course, subject to reassessment each year.
- Study level
- Fee status
- Home (UK)
- Number of awards available
- All eligible students will receive the award
- Student type
- Current
- Application deadline
- No application required
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About the Manchester Bursary
The Manchester Bursary is available to students from low-income households and estranged students. Eligibility is automatically assessed based on your household income assessment through your Student Finance application. The Bursary is available to eligible students for the duration of their course, subject to a financial reassessment each year.
If you're entitled to NHS support as a Nursing, Midwifery or Allied Healthcare course student (for example, Speech and Language Therapy), you won't be eligible for the Manchester Bursary. Medicine and Dentistry students are entitled to a lower level of NHS funding beyond Year 4 and are therefore eligible for the Manchester Bursary during the years they’re also entitled to NHS funding.
The amount you receive is dependent upon your household income assessment.
- Residual household income of up to £31,000: £2,600 cash award each year
- Residual household income of between £31,001 and £43,000: £1,300 cash award each year
For more information on this bursary, please read the of the Manchester Bursary.
Scheme eligibility
Essential criteria are conditions you must meet to be considered for this scheme. Students who do not meet these criteria will not be considered for this award.
To be eligible, you must meet the following:
- Be studying an eligible undergraduate degree course at the University of Manchester
- Have submitted an application to your regional student funding authority (Student Finance England, Wales, Northern Ireland, or Scotland), had a full household income assessment, and consented to share your Student Finance information with your university
- Have a household income of less than £43,000 per year.
Students will NOT be eligible to receive the Manchester Bursary in any given academic year in which they are entitled to NHS support, with the exception of Medicine and Dentistry students who receive a lower level of funding when they become eligible for NHS support beyond year 4 of their academic programme.
Application and selection process
How to apply
You do not need to apply for this Bursary. All eligible students will receive the Bursary.
Selection process
The University will do an automatic assessment for the Bursary during the first six to eight weeks of semester 1 and will email you in November if you are eligible for the award. You do not need to apply or provide any further information to us.
If you have not been contacted by December and think you are eligible for the Bursary, please contact our team through the online enquiry form.
If your household income should fall by 15% or more in an academic year, you may be able to apply for an in-year reassessment with Student Finance to reassess your household income and eligibility for the Bursary.
Please note you will not receive your bursary for the relevant academic year if your Student Finance assessment has not been completed by 31st May of that academic year (e.g. for the 2026/27 academic year the deadline will be the 31st of May 2027).
Terms and conditions
Sharing your household income information
When completing your Student Finance England application, you will need to ensure you have selected the option to consent to share your household income information with the Universities you have applied to or hold an offer with. Without this we cannot access that information, and we will not be able to consider your application for this scheme.
Breaks in funding
This award is not provided during study years abroad, placement years, or if a student takes a study interruption.
Understanding your fee status
This scheme uses your fee status as part of its eligibility criteria. Find out more about how ÌÇÐÄVlog¹Ù·½ assesses tuition fee statuses
Contact
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