📸 At a Glance
🌍 Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England
🎓 Russell Group ✅
⚖️ Race Equality Charter ✅ Bronze Award
💰 Scholarships Available ✅
🏅Ranking: 16 (Complete University Guide 2026)
🔎 Overview
The University of Sheffield is a Russell Group university in South Yorkshire, known for strong research, teaching quality, and student experience. It offers a wide range of courses across the sciences, engineering, humanities, and social sciences, and has a reputation for a friendly student community and active Students’ Union.
📊 Ethnicity Breakdown
- Black: 4%
- Mixed race: 5%
- White: 75%
- Asian: 12%
- Other: 1%
- Not known: 2%
💰 Funding
- The Aziz Foundation Scholarships – These scholarships offer full tuition fee funding and professional development support for British Muslims dedicated to driving positive change in society, including access to training days, career mentors and the Aziz Scholars Association.
- The Scott & Caroline Beaumont Neuroscience Postgraduate Scholarships – Two £10,000 scholarships are available for home fee-paying students starting an eligible taught postgraduate course at the University of Sheffield’s Neuroscience Institute in 2026.
- The Dan Walker Journalism Scholarship – The University of Sheffield’s School of Information, Journalism and Communication offers two £10,000 Dan Walker Journalism Scholarships for home fee-paying students starting the MA Journalism postgraduate programme in 2026.
- Access to Sheffield Scholarships – The University of Sheffield is offering over 250 Access to Sheffield Scholarships for home fee-paying students starting in September 2026, worth £1,000 per year throughout their course plus a one-off £600 payment to help with starting costs.
- Allan and Nesta Ferguson Charitable Trust Masters Scholarships – The University of Sheffield, in partnership with the Allan and Nesta Ferguson Charitable Trust, offers three fully funded scholarships for academically strong international students from developing countries. Each award covers full tuition fees plus a £12,500 maintenance stipend.
In addition to Africa-specific funding, international students from African countries may qualify for general international scholarships and tuition discounts such as the: - Sanctuary Scholarship
ℹ️ Availability changes yearly, some scholarships may be closed now but reopen later. Check official sites for details and revisit this page for updates and new listings.
👨🏾🎓👩🏿🎓 Student Life & Support
- African & Caribbean Society
- BME Students Committee
- University of Sheffield African Affairs Network
- University of Sheffield Nigerian Society
- North African Society UoS
- All African Postgraduate Research Group Network – for African postgraduate researchers.
- BAME Medics Society.
- BAME Engineers Society.
- BAME Architects Society.
- BAME Law Society.
*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
Taking Space BAME student support group: a wellbeing group for students to talk about trauma, identity, isolation, racism, and study pressures.
Student Experience, Diversity and Inclusion team:tailored support activities to help students feel a sense of belonging.
Careers & Employability Service: careers advice, including guidance specifically for BAME students
Access Mentors / equal opportunities support: support for students from groups underrepresented in higher education.
Report and Support: for incidents of discrimination or harassment.
Careers & Employability Service: including BAME-specific guidance.
The university signposts to a host of community and support networks around the city.
