Bursaries and scholarships

We will award a cash bursary to eligible UK home undergraduate students, who start their studies on an eligible course at NTU in 2025. The bursary for students on a full-time course is £750 and for those on a part-time course, it is £375.

The bursary is provided to eligible students who:

• are paying the maximum home tuition fee for a course which leads to an Undergraduate Degree, Foundation Degree, Certificate of Higher Education (CERT HE), Higher National Certificate (HNC), or Higher National Diploma (HND)
• have a household income of £27,500 per year or less (as assessed by their UK national Student Finance Service)
• are eligible to receive a tuition fee loan and a maintenance loan from their UK National Student Finance Service.

If eligible, this bursary is paid in each year of your course (but will not normally be paid during any year-long work placement as part of a sandwich degree). Full terms and conditions will be published on the StudentHub.

How to apply for a bursary

There’s no separate application process to apply for an NTU bursary. Your eligibility is automatically assessed as long as you’ve applied and are eligible for a tuition fee loan and a maintenance loan from your national Student Finance Service.

You should receive written confirmation from us between September and November 2025. Contact us on +44 (0)115 848 2494 or email our Student Money Team if you think you meet the bursary eligibility criteria but haven’t received the letter by November.

The NTU Opportunity Bursary is an annual award designed to support students in engaging in extra-curricular activities that may otherwise not be available to them and will help improve their outcomes at university. The bursary of £170 will be awarded to eligible students in January of each year of their studies from the 2025/26 academic year. Eligible part-time students will receive £85.

Full terms and conditions will be published on the StudentHub webpages

You should receive written confirmation from us between November and December 2025. Contact us on +44 (0)115 848 2494 or email our Student Money Team if you think you meet the bursary eligibility criteria but haven’t received notification by November.

The University will award an NTU Care Leaver and Foyer Residents Bursary of £1,000 to help towards the living costs of eligible students who start their studies with us in 2025.

The NTU Care Leaver and Foyer Residents Bursary is available for each year of full-time study, subject to meeting the eligibility criteria.

You may be eligible to receive this bursary if you're:

• under 25, and
• on a full-time course leading to an Undergraduate Degree, Foundation Degree, Certificate of Higher Education, Higher National Diploma or Higher National Certificate.

You must also have been:

• in the care of a local authority in the UK at some point since the age of 16, or
• looked after by relatives who have a court order to do so, at some point since the age of 16, or
• a foyer resident in the UK.

Please email our Student Money Team to request the application form.

Visit our support for care leavers page for more information.

The University will award an NTU Estranged Student Bursary of £1,000 to help towards the living costs of eligible students who start their studies with us in 2025.

The NTU Estranged Student Bursary is available for each year of full-time study, subject to meeting the eligibility criteria.

You may be eligible for this bursary if:

• you're under 25, and
• your UK national Student Finance service has assessed you as independent on the grounds of estrangement from your parents, and
• you joined NTU after the start of the 2020/21 academic year,  and
• you're on a full-time course leading to an Undergraduate Degree, Foundation Degree, Certificate of Higher Education, Higher National Diploma or Higher National Certificate.

Please email our Student Money Team to request the application form.

Visit our support for estranged students page for more information

If you’re studying nursing, teaching, or social work, you may be able to apply for a government funded bursary. Visit our Student Services page for more information.