Anglia Ruskin University
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📸 At a Glance

 🌍 Cambridge, England, UK (Second campus in Chelmsford)
🎓 Russell Group ❌
⚖️ Race Equality Charter ✅ Bronze award
💷 Scholarships Available ✅
🏅 Ranking: 85 (Complete University Guide 2026)

🔎 Overview

Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) is a public university with its main campus in Cambridge and another large campus in Chelmsford. It offers undergraduate and postgraduate courses across areas such as health, business, computing, engineering, psychology, law, and the creative industries. The university is known for its practical and career-focused approach, with strong links to healthcare, technology, and local employers.

 📊 Ethnicity Breakdown

  • Black: 20%
  • Mixed race: 5%
  • White: 57%
  • Asian: 12%
  • Other: 3%
  • 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.

  • GREAT Scholarships (Ghana) – Anglia Ruskin University is offering £10,000 GREAT Scholarships for the 2026–27 academic year for students from Ghana, India and Indonesia. Students from Ghana can apply across a range of taught master’s programmes including Education, FinTech and Data Analytics, Healthcare Leadership and Management, Public Health and Community Wellbeing, and Accounting and Finance.

👩🏿‍🎓👨🏾‍🎓 Student Life & Support

  • Afro Caribbean Society – Cambridge (ACS)
  • Afro Caribbean Society – Chelmsford (ACS)
  • ARUBA (Black Advocates Society)
  • Black Girls’ Space

ℹ️ 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 Equality Advocates – Anglia Ruskin University’s Race Equality Advocates are student representatives who support race equity across the university. They help shape ARU’s Race Equity Strategy, organise events, develop resources for BAME students, work with staff to make the curriculum more inclusive, and produce podcasts, blog posts and videos to raise awareness of race equality issues.

Race Equity Hub – The university showcase the work they are doing to actively become an anti-racist university.

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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