📸 At a Glance
🌍 London, England
🎓 Russell Group ✅
⚖️ Race Equality Charter ✅ Silver Award
💰 Scholarships Available ✅
🏅 Ranking: 13 (Complete University Guide 2026)
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💷 Scholarships | 📊 Student Demographics | 🎓 What’s Available | 🧑🏾🎓 Student Life
💷 Scholarships & Funding for 2027/28
Status: 🟢 Open · 🟡 Soon · 🔵 TBC · ↻ Rolling
🟢 Open
- UCL Computer Science Aspire Award Undergraduate Scholarship – Provides comprehensive financial support for an undergraduate Computer Science degree, alongside ongoing academic and career support throughout the programme.
Funding: Full tuition fees plus £23,000 per year towards living and study expenses, for three or four years.
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🟡 Soon
- The Bartlett Promise Undergraduate Scholarship – Covers the cost of studying at The Bartlett, UCL’s built environment faculty, and provides financial support for living and study expenses. Scholars also receive mentoring, personal support and careers advice throughout their degree.
Funding: Full UK-rate tuition fees plus £15,864 per year towards living and study expenses, for three or four years.
Application deadline: The scholarship will open on 4 June 2027 and close on 2 July 2027.
🔗 View the Scholarship - The Bartlett Promise Master’s Scholarship – Helps cover the cost of postgraduate study at The Bartlett, UCL’s built environment faculty. Scholars also receive mentoring, personal support and careers advice during their studies.
Funding: Full UK-rate tuition fees plus £17,096 towards living and study expenses for a 12-month course, or £15,864 per year for a nine-month course.
Application Deadline: Applications open on 1 March 2027, and close on 1 June 2027.
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🔵 TBC
- UCL Research Opportunity Scholarship (ROS) – PhD
- EGA IfWH BAME Master’s Scholarship
- The Physics & Astronomy Opportunity Scholarship
- Amos Bursary
🔵 TBC
- The Bartlett Promise Sub-Saharan Africa Master’s Scholarship
- UCL Global Master’s Scholarship
📊 Student Demographics
| Black: 7% | Mixed race: 8% | White: 47% |
| Asian: 30% | Other: 4% | Not known: 3% |
📣 What’s Available
Widening Participation Activities – UCL encourages Black students attending UK state schools or colleges to apply to its widening participation activities, with eligible applicants given additional consideration for oversubscribed programmes, whether to experience university life, get application tips, or explore different subjects.
Envision UCL – Get an introduction to university through in-person events at UCL, with opportunities to explore higher education and learn more about the university experience.
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Become – A free, one-day event developed by UCL medical students to help tackle the under-representation of Black students in medicine. Discover what studying medicine involves, meet medical professionals and UCL students from similar backgrounds, explore university support and opportunities, and take part in hands-on workshops to help you decide whether medicine could be right for you.
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UCL Expand – Deepen your knowledge of an academic subject and get a taste of university-level learning before deciding what to study after school.
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UCL Sutton Trust Summer Schools – Spend time experiencing university life through a summer school, exploring your chosen subject and getting a clearer idea of what studying at university could be like.
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Black @ UCL – Black@UCL is a three-year initiative strengthening the sense of belonging among UK Black undergraduate students at UCL, with the aim of addressing the Black awarding gap. Student-led and built on co-creation, the programme challenges structural barriers, engages with decolonial practices, and cultivates spaces where Black students can connect authentically and thrive academically and professionally.
People of Colour Students’ Network – Meet other students of colour, attend community events and get involved in campaigns and conversations about issues affecting your university experience.
👨🏾🎓👩🏿🎓 Student Life
- UCL African and Caribbean Society
- UCL Students’ Union BME Students’ Network
- UCL Students’ Union People of Colour Students’ Network
ℹ️ See the university’s full societies directory for additional or newer groups.