University of Essex
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📸 At a Glance

 🌍 Essex, Southeast England (Main campus in Colchester, Essex with additional sites in Southend-on-Sea and Loughton)
🎓 Russell Group ❌
⚖️ Race Equality Charter ✅ Bronze Award
💷 Scholarships Available ✅
🏅 Ranking: 40 (Complete University Guide 2026)

🔎 Overview

The University of Essex is a public research university with its main campus in Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, and a further campus in Loughton, both in Essex, England. It offers degrees across humanities, social sciences, and science and health, with particular strengths in politics, international relations, economics, law, data science, sociology, and human rights, alongside subjects like business, psychology, and biological sciences.

 📊 Ethnicity Breakdown

  • Black: 20%
  • Mixed race: 6%
  • White: 57%
  • Asian: 12%
  • Other: 2%
  • Not known: 2%

💷 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.

👩🏿‍🎓👨🏾‍🎓 Student Life & Support

  • African Caribbean Society (ACS)
  • Ghanaian SocietyNigerian Society
  • Intercontinental Nigerian 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

✨ Ranked the third most culturally diverse university in the UK.

✨ The University of Essex offers a range of support services, networks and initiatives for Black students and the wider Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) community, including wellbeing support, anti-racism initiatives and student-led communities. This includes and Black Researchers Hub to resources for those interested in decolonising the curriculum, links to career support and to their Report & Support service where students can report hate crimes.

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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