Undergraduate scholarships and bursaries

• Award: £14,000 (renewed each year subject to eligibility)
• Open to: All First Years (except Senior Status students)
• Eligibility: State school educated in the UK; Household income of £35,000 or less per year (means testing applies)
• Application period: October-November

This award is open for applications. See the Gianni Sonvico Bursary page for more information.

• Award: £1,894 (not renewed) plus practical work experience in the pro bono sector
• Open to: non-final year LLB students on all programmes except Law in Practice LLB
• Application period: December-January

This scholarship is offered by the Lawyers Volunteering for the Arts. This scholarship will enable a law student to support the LVFA initiative whilst gaining practical experience of the pro bono advice sector and financial support.

Find out more about the LVFA Scholarship.

• Award: £1,000 (renewed each following year)
• Open to: All first year LLB students
• Application period: November-December

This scholarship is based on academic merit and not financial circumstances. See the First, Second, Final Year and Senior Status Scholarships page for more information about the award.

• Award: £1,000 (renewed each following year)
• Open to: All second year LLB students
• Eligibility: 90% or higher attendance and 2:2 (50-59%_ or higher in your first year)
• Application period: November-December

This scholarship is based on academic merit and not financial circumstances. See the First, Second, Final Year and Senior Status Scholarships page for more information about the award.

• Award: £1,000 (not renewed)
• Open to: All final year LLB students
• Eligibility: 90% or higher attendance and an average grade of 2:1 (60-69%) or higher
• Application period: November-December

This scholarship is based on academic merit and not financial circumstances. See the First, Second, Final Year and Senior Status Scholarships page for more information about the award.

• Award: £1,000 (renewed each following year)
• Open to: Senior Status LLB students
• Eligibility: 90% or higher attendance and an average grade of 2:2 (50-59%) or higher
• Application period: November-December

This scholarship is based on academic merit and not financial circumstances. See the First, Second, Final Year and Senior Status Scholarships page for more information about the award.

• Amount: £16,000 (renewed in following years) and tuition fee waiver
• Open to: LLB offer holders (except those with an offer to study Senior Status LLB)
• Eligibility: First time entering a degree programme and have refugee or asylum status, or be from an area where your human rights are at risk
• Application period: June-August

The Sanctuary Bursary is for students that have experienced severe barriers in accessing higher education and may require funding. Applications are now closed for 2024-25. See the Sanctuary Bursary page to find out more.

• Amount: £2,000 (renewed each year)
• Open to: All First Years
• Eligibility: Household income of £25,000 or less per year (means testing applies)
• Application period: November-December

The awardee of this bursary will be selected on the basis of academic excellence and potential but also be recognised to be from a Widening Participation background. 

See the Undergraduate Bursary page for more information about this award.

• Amount: $10,000 and graduate studies admission to William & Mary College in the USA
• Open to: LLB final year students
• Application period: December-January

The William & Mary Drapers’ Company Scholarship is an opportunity offered to all final year students in the School of Law. It is a chance to take an LLM course at the College of William & Mary, one of the oldest colleges in the USA. The scholarship is available annually to a Queen Mary LLB student to enable them to spend a year after graduation in the United States as a graduate student.

For information on how to apply, see the William and Mary Scholarship page.

The Cambridge Long Vacation Scholarship provides the opportunity for 8 students to attend Kings College and 1 student to attend St John’s College for four weeks during the summer, from Monday 14 July to Saturday 9 August 2025.

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The Bridge Programme (a suite of bite-sized, online learning modules) offers an opportunity for all future solicitors and barristers to develop the career-ready skills that law firms and chambers look for in graduates.  As well as being free, students who complete at least half of the “Bridge programme” have the chance of being awarded a scholarship, which works as a fee reduction against the cost of BPP's Law Conversion Course (formerly the GDL), the Legal Practice Course (LPC), Solicitors Qualifying Examination (SQE) preparation courses, or the Barrister Training Course (BTC).  Our University’s partnership with BPP for this programme means one £5,000 scholarship is guaranteed and up to three more scholarships (worth £2,000 each) may be awarded. This programmme is open to all students.

The University of Law is pleased to work in partnership with Queen Mary University of London to offer students the chance to progress onto The University of Law’s graduate programmes: a LLM, the SQE Stage 1 and Stage 2 courses, or the LPC – plus courses for those students who wish to pursue a career at the Bar.  A limited number of scholarships are available to students who have graduated from any degree programme at Queen Mary University of London and who will start one of these University of Law programmes in the following September or January. The scholarships (the value of which vary from year to year) will be awarded as a tuition fee discount at the start of your University of Law course.

Find out more about our Progression Partnership.

BARBRI provides programmes for both US qualification and for the England and Wales SQE courses. Queen Mary students and alumni receive 10% off BARBRI’s SQE1 preparation course.

To obtain this discount, please use discount code “QMUL10” when booking your SQE1 course (you will be asked for proof of your Queen Mary University student/alumni status).

You can now also receive 20% discount for the US Extended Bar Prep course with the discount code “QMUL20”.