📸 At a Glance
🌍 Exeter, Devon (Campuses in Exeter and Cornwall)
🎓 Russell Group ✅
⚖️ Race Equality Charter ✅ Bronze Award
💰 Scholarships Available ✅
🏅 Ranking: 11 (Complete University Guide 2026)
🔎 Overview
The University of Exeter is a highly regarded UK research university known for strong teaching, global outlook, and a green, campus-based setting in the southwest of England, with particular strengths in environmental science, business, and humanities.
📊 Ethnicity Breakdown
- Black: 3%
- Mixed race: 6%
- White: 82%
- Asian: 6%
- Other: 1%
- Not known: 1%
💷 Scholarships & Funding
- Resonance Scholarship – Worth £3,000 per year for three years (four years for MEng programmes), this scholarship is open to high-achieving Black or mixed Black heritage students applying to study Engineering, Maths or Physical Sciences at Exeter’s Streatham or Penryn campus. Three scholarships are available each year.
- de Freitas Scholarship – Two £30,000 scholarships are available for Black British students starting October 2026 on either the MSc Marine Environment Management or MSc Marine Vertebrate Ecology and Conservation at the University of Exeter’s Penryn Campus, covering full tuition fees with the remainder paid as a living and travel stipend.
- The Exeter Scholars Access Award – One Senior Scholar award per campus (Streatham, St Luke’s and Penryn) is being awarded to high-achieving students from Black, Asian or minority ethnicity backgrounds.
- Postgraduate Taught Scholarships for Nigeria – Automatic £10,000 scholarships are available for international students from Nigeria enrolling on an eligible Masters programme starting September 2026 or January 2027. No separate application is required, students must secure a place and the funding will be applied automatically.
👨🏾🎓👩🏿🎓 Student Life & Support
- Afro-Caribbean Society (ACS)
- Students of Colour communities
- Multicultural Counselling
- Collective for Racial Justice
- International Student Wellbeing support services
➡️ 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
Race Student Support – The university is committed to equality of opportunity and embedding race equality across everything it does, ensuring all students and staff can work and study free from discrimination. Their student support webpage offers a range of resources and support for students such as; Career Zone, the Equality Council and the NUS Black Students’ Campaign, which represents students of African, Asian, Arab and Caribbean descent at a local and national level on all issues affecting Black students.
