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📸 At a Glance

🌍 Newcastle upon Tyne, North East England
🎓 Russell Group ✅
⚖️ Race Equality Charter ✅ Bronze Award
💰 Scholarships Available ✅
🏅 Ranking: 30 (Complete University Guide 2026)

🔎 Overview

Newcastle University is a public research university based in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, with additional campuses in Singapore and Malaysia. A founding member of the Russell Group, it’s known for strong research and teaching across medicine, engineering, and business.

 📊 Ethnicity Breakdown

  • Black: 2%
  • Mixed: 5%
  • White: 81%
  • Asian: 8%
  • Other: 2%
  • Not known: 2%

💷 Scholarships & Funding

  • Cowrie Scholarship Foundation – In partnership with the Cowrie Scholarship Foundation, Cardiff University offers two scholarships supporting Black African and Caribbean heritage students from socio-economically under-represented backgrounds, commencing undergraduate study in 2026/27.

👨🏾‍🎓👩🏿‍🎓 Student Life & Support

  • Afro-Caribbean Society (ACS) 
  • Black Health Collective Society 
  • African & Caribbean Christian Fellowship (varies by year)
  • Black Engineering Network (student/staff network in Engineering) 
  • Team Kenya

➡️ 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

BAME Guide – Newcastles Student union put together. guide for the BAME community in 2020 to provide ethnic minorities with information about resources which may prove useful during the university journey.

Discrimination and Hate Incidents – The Student Health & Wellbeing Service offers support and advice for students who have experienced discrimination or hate incidents.

What this means

•Race Equality Charter: Recognises universities improving ethnic minority representation and outcomes. Awards include Bronze, Silver, or Gold; some universities are members without an award.

• Ethnicity breakdown: Shows the ethnic makeup of UK-domiciled students (those with a UK permanent address) across all levels, based on the most recent academic year.

Scholarship Update

• Scholarships are for Black students (home/domestic) and African/Caribbean students (international).

• "Black" includes those of Black heritage and mixed Black heritage.

• Eligibility varies by scholarship - check each listing for details.

• Scholarships are for 2026–27; some may have closed. Check back for 2027–28 updates.

• Scholarship 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.

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How This Data Works

• Info is based on the latest HESA (Higher Education Statistics Agency) and publicly available data for UK-domiciled students, reflecting the previous academic year (rounded to whole numbers).

• Ethnicity is self-identified, so figures are indicative, not exact.

• The “Mixed” category by HESA includes all mixed ethnic backgrounds, including mixed Black backgrounds.

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