📸 At a Glance
🌍 Leicestershire, East Midlands (Second Campus at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, London)
🎓 Russell Group ✅
⚖️ Race Equality Charter ✅ Bronze Award
💰 Scholarships Available ✅
🏅 Ranking: 7 (Complete University Guide 2026)
🔎 Overview
Loughborough University is a public research university located in Loughborough, England. Consistently ranked in the UK’s top 10, it’s globally renowned for sport-related subjects and facilities, while also offering strong career-focused degrees across engineering, business, and the sciences, with nearly every course including a placement year.
📊 Ethnicity Breakdown
- Black: 7%
- Mixed race: 7%
- White: 71%
- Asian: 13%
- Other: 1%
- Not known: 1%
💷 Scholarships & Funding
⚠️ This university does not currently offer scholarships specifically for Black students. We recommend exploring their widening participation and general scholarships, as you may qualify based on your personal circumstances and academic achievement.
- Creating Better Futures Master’s Scholarships for African Students – Commonwealth Master’s Scholarships cover 100% of tuition fees for students from low and middle-income Commonwealth countries to study a full-time master’s degree at a UK university.
- Chevening Partnership Scholarships – Chevening Partnership Scholarships offer full funding for a one-year master’s starting October 2026 at Loughborough University (London and main campus programmes). The award covers course fees, flights, a monthly living allowance, and arrival and departure allowances.
- Commonwealth Master’s Scholarships – Commonwealth Master’s Scholarships support students from low and middle-income Commonwealth countries to study a full-time master’s degree at a UK university, covering full fees.
- GREAT Scholarships (Kenya) – Loughborough University, in partnership with the British Council, is offering two GREAT Scholarships worth £10,000 each for students from Kenya or Turkey applying for a one-year master’s programme. Applicants must hold a conditional or unconditional offer from Loughborough University.
- Loughborough Development Trust Africa Scholarship – The Loughborough Development Trust Africa Scholarship covers 100% of tuition fees for a one-year postgraduate taught programme.
👨🏾🎓👩🏿🎓 Student Life & Support
- Afro-Caribbean Society (ACS)
- Nigerian Society
- Ghanaian Society
- L’Afrik
- Ethnic Minority Network
➡️ The university also points students to its full clubs and societies directory under cultural/national societies, which may include additional or more up-to-date groups not listed here.
📣 Things Uni To Know
Support Services – Loughborough’s dedicated webpage centring support for BAME students. It provides information on the types of support students can find at the university, including wellbeing support to immigration advice. They also signpost to useful external resources.
