University of Lancaster
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📸 At a Glance

 🌍 Lancaster, Northwest England
🎓 Russell Group ✅
⚖️ Race Equality Charter ✅ Bronze Award
💷 Scholarships Available ✅
🏅 Ranking: 10 (Complete University Guide 2026)

🔎 Overview


Lancaster University is a collegiate university based on a parkland campus at Bailrigg, about three miles from Lancaster city centre in north-west England, organised into nine residential colleges. It offers degrees across subjects including linguistics, English language and literature, sociology, business management, engineering, physics, law, and arts and social sciences.

 📊 Ethnicity Breakdown

  • Black: 6%
  • Mixed race: 6%
  • White: 13%
  • Asian: 13%
  • Other: 1%
  • Not known: 1%

💷 Scholarships & Funding

👨🏾‍🎓👩🏿‍🎓 Student Life & Support

  • Afro-Caribbean Society (ACS)
  • Nigerian Society
  • Ethnic minorities / liberation representation

➡️ 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

A Place for Everyone – is a dedicated webpage to foster a sense of belonging. Students can find out how the university are enabling this through learning more about Lancasters ethos, networks and student representation.

Support for Black, Asian and Ethnic Minorities students – This support page is specifically for Black, Asian and Ethnic Minorities students.

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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