College of Arts and Law scholarships
The College of Arts and Law is offering scholarships for select international students across all of our undergraduate programmes.
As part of our work to make the College of Arts and Law more accessible to students from all backgrounds, we are thrilled to be able to award 10 scholarships in the form of £3,000 for year one entry only towards your tuition fee payments for students applying for entry to an undergraduate programme starting September 2025. Programmes must fall within one of the following schools:
- English, Drama and Creative Studies
- History and Cultures
- Language, Cultures, Art History and Music
- Liberal Arts and Sciences
- Philosophy, Theology and Religion
The scholarships will be awarded to the highest performing students starting their University of Birmingham programme in the 2025/26 academic year.
If you are applying for a course in Birmingham Law School, you may be interested in our LLB and LLB for Graduates scholarships for 2025 entry.
Apply here for 2025 entry
College of Arts and Law scholarship
Our scholarship recipients
Eligibility and selection criteria
To be eligible for the College of Arts and Law Scholarship, candidates must:
- Be classed by the University as an overseas fee payer for tuition fee purposes and be able to pay the outstanding tuition fees not covered by the scholarship.
- Have applied for, and received an offer and selected the University of Birmingham as their firm choice in UCAS for a full-time undergraduate programme in the College of Arts and Law (excluding Law) starting September 2025. You must be entering the first year of an undergraduate programme based at Birmingham's UK campus.
- Not already be registered and studying on a programme at the University of Birmingham in the UK.
- Be self-funding and have sufficient funds to cover the full cost of living at the University of Birmingham, plus any visa/travel expenses associated with studying in the UK.
- Accept an offer from the University of Birmingham for a programme within the College of Arts and Law (excluding Law) by the deadline: 30 June 2025.
Terms and conditions
Terms and conditions
- £3,000 for year one only will be awarded to successful applicants. Scholarships are not paid directly to successful applicants but will take the form of a fee reduction at the beginning of the programme.
- Scholarships are available to all privately funded international students categorised as overseas for fees purposes.
- Scholarships are only available for students beginning their programme in September 2025 and cannot be deferred.
- Students in receipt of support from other funding bodies which wholly cover their tuition are not eligible.
- Decisions will be announced by late July and the scholarships will be awarded upon the students’ enrolment in September 2025.
- Candidates must have submitted the scholarship application form by 30 April 2025 (23:59 UK time) to be considered for the award.
- In accepting and securing this scholarship, awardees are expected to support the University, to a reasonable extent, by providing profiles testimonials and engaging in ambassadorial activities if requested by the University.
- Due to the volume of applications for the scholarship, we are unable to offer individual responses to each application. If you have not been contacted by Thursday 31st July, unfortunately your application has been unsuccessful.