Social responsibility lies at the heart of our University and we are committed to playing our part in helping those fleeing conflict and persecution by offering the opportunity to study at Manchester.
Set up in 2022, our Humanitarian Scholarship programme supports individuals at immediate risk who have been forced to flee their homes as a direct result of armed conflict. The awards cover tuition fees, living expenses and visas.
2025 entry
For 2025 entry, we are offering up to five undergraduate scholarships. The scholarships are available for a wide range of full-time undergraduate courses, excluding medicine, dentistry, nursing and architecture.
To apply for the scholarship, you must have applied to The University of Manchester for a place on a course starting in September 2025.
Undergraduate applications for September 2025 entry are now open and you must apply via UCAS.
You don’t need to have received a course offer in order to submit your application (the scholarship application window opens in February 2025), but we will look at which applicants have been made an offer when shortlisting for the scholarship.
Timeline for 2025/26
| Applications open for academic admission in 2025 | 3 September 2024 |
| Scholarship applications open | 3 February 2025 |
| Application deadline | 31 March 2025 |
| Selection panel assesses applications | April 2025 |
| Applicants receive results | May 2025 |
| Students arrive in Manchester | September 2025 |
Eligibility criteria
To apply for a scholarship, you’ll need all of the following:
- be at serious risk as a direct result of armed conflict, and/or
- be displaced inside or have been forced to leave your home country within the last three years because of armed conflict;
- be unable to access or complete an undergraduate degree;
- have not previously studied, at any level, in the UK or EU;
- have applied for a place on a course starting in September 2025;
- be able to demonstrate knowledge of, and commitment, to, your chosen course;
- have an excellent academic background.
Available courses
The scholarships are available for three-year undergraduate degrees plus a one-year foundation year if necessary
Applications for Medicine (MBChB), Dentistry (BDS), Nursing or Architecture degrees are not eligible.
We offer scholarships for our Integrated Foundation Year or Biosciences Foundation Year if you don’t have the right qualifications for direct entry to any of our three-year degree courses in engineering, natural sciences and biosciences. However, funding is not available for the foundation programme run in partnership with INTO Manchester for Humanities subjects.
How to apply?
To apply for the scholarship, you must have applied to The University of Manchester for a place on a course starting in September 2025. Undergraduate applications for September 2025 entry are now open and you must apply via UCAS.
You’ll need to meet our general entry requirements, along with a specified level of ability in English language.
You can check the accepted qualifications listed for your country on our international webpages.
You don’t need to have received a course offer in order to submit your application, but we will look at which applicants have been made an offer when shortlisting for the scholarship.
Please note that obtaining an academic offer does not mean that you are guaranteed a scholarship. Academic admission and scholarship selection are two separate processes managed independently of each other.
Find advice and information on how to apply.
Applying for the scholarship
In addition to applying for academic admission, you must make a separate application for the scholarship. Applications open on Monday, 3 February 2025 and close at 5pm (GMT) on Monday 31, March 2025.
The application link below will go live by Monday, 3 February 2025.
Apply online
Please include your University of Manchester ID on the scholarship application form. You will receive an automatic acknowledgement when you submit the application, but you will not receive a separate confirmation by email.
Selection process
After submitting your application please wait to hear if you’ve been selected. There is no interview requirement.
We guarantee to be in touch with you by 30 May 2025.
We’ll email you to let you know our decision, whether successful or unsuccessful.
