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Queen Mary Cowrie Scholarship 2025

About the award

Level: Undergraduate
Course: All Undergraduate Courses
Country/Region: United Kingdom
Value: Full fee waiver worth £9,535 per year and £10,000 maintenance funding per year
No. of awards: 1
Deadline: 22nd April 2025

More information

The Cowrie Scholarship Foundation, in partnership with Queen Mary University of London, is offering full scholarships to support Black African and Caribbean heritage applicants from socio-economically under-represented backgrounds. Applicants must be ordinarily resident in the UK and commencing undergraduate study in the 2025/26 academic year. 

More information can be found online at The Cowrie Scholarship Foundation Logo of the Cowrie FoundationWhat is the eligibility criteria?

  • You belong to a Black or Black mixed ethnic group
  • You have a household income of less than £25,000 per annum or less
  • You have been assessed as a 'home' student (paying £9,535 per year in tuition fees)
  • You have firmly accepted an offer of a place by the UCAS deadline on your first undergraduate full-time degree at Queen Mary University of London
  • You have applied to your regional student finance authority (e.g. Student Finance England) for income assessed UK government financial support for 2025/26
  • If you have any queries about applying, please email bursaries@qmul.ac.uk

How to apply

The deadline for receipt of applications is 22nd April 2025.

Please check your eligibility before making an application. Awards may be withdrawn if we later become aware successful scholars have not met eligibility criteria or to have provided false information.

In addition to your personal details, we will ask you for a personal statement of between 600 and 900 words explaining:

  • why the scholarship would be beneficial to your studies
  • how it would help you to achieve your academic goals
  • how your education would be of future benefit to your community and/or society

What achievements, academically and personally, are you most proud of? This could include overcoming a challenging personal circumstance. There is no right or wrong answer. We are keen to hear your personal story, to help us get to know you.

Apply here

Outcome 

All applicants will receive notification by the first week of September

Please do not contact the Foundation as all awards and notifications will come from Queen Mary

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