Scholarships and funding

These scholarships and studentships are available to students in the York School of Architecture.

Your chosen course, level of study and other statuses may all affect your eligibility for the opportunities listed here.

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Architecture Academic Excellence Scholarships

This award recognises the academic excellence of your application by offering a scholarship during your first year of study.

  • Funding: £1,000
  • Academic year: 2025/26
  • Department: York School of Architecture
  • Qualification level: Undergraduate
  • Open to: International (including EU) and UK (home) students

WRoCAH funding

The White Rose College of the Arts & Humanities (WRoCAH) is a Doctoral Training Partnership of the Universities of Leeds, Sheffield and York. The College is responsible for the distribution of AHRC-funded doctoral studentships for these universities.

  • Funding: Varies
  • Academic year: 2025/26
  • Department: Centre for Medieval Studies, Department of Archaeology, Department of History, Department of History of Art, Department of Language and Linguistic Science and more (see eligibility)
  • Application deadline: Wednesday 22 January 2025, 5pm GMT
  • Qualification level: Postgraduate research
  • Open to: International (including EU) and UK (home) students

ANID / Becas Chile

We offer a 25% tuition fee discount for Becas Chile-sponsored postgraduate students.

  • Funding: 25% tuition fee discount
  • Academic year: 2025/26
  • Department: Any
  • Qualification level: Postgraduate research and Postgraduate taught
  • Open to: Students from Chile

Beca Carlos Quijano

This scholarship aims to subsidise expenses for postgraduate training for students with Uruguayan citizenship.

  • Funding: Up to $U120,000
  • Academic year: 2025/26
  • Department: Any
  • Application deadline: Friday 31 January 2025, 11.59pm GMT
  • Qualification level: Postgraduate research and Postgraduate taught
  • Open to: Students from Uruguay

Canadian Centennial Scholarship Fund

These scholarships offer £5,000 each year to eligible Canadians studying for a postgraduate degree who have completed their first year of study.

  • Funding: £5,000 per year
  • Academic year: 2025/26
  • Department: Any
  • Application deadline: Saturday 15 March 2025, 4.59am GMT
  • Qualification level: Postgraduate research and Postgraduate taught
  • Open to: Students from Canada

Colfuturo

We grant a 25% tuition fee discount to most Colfuturo-sponsored postgraduate students. It is possible to combine this discount with most University of York partial scholarships. 

  • Funding: 25% tuition fee discount
  • Academic year: 2025/26
  • Department: Any
  • Application deadline: Friday 28 February 2025, 11.59pm GMT
  • Qualification level: Postgraduate research and Postgraduate taught
  • Open to: Students from Colombia

Commonwealth Scholarship

The University of York is a host university for the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission. Various opportunities are available throughout the year. The majority of awards are funded by the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.

  • Funding: various
  • Academic year: 2024/25
  • Department: Any
  • Qualification level: Postgraduate research and Postgraduate taught
  • Open to: Students from Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belize and more (see eligibility)

EPSRC CDT in Process Industries: Net Zero (PINZ)

The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Centre for Doctoral Training in Process Industries: Net Zero (PINZ CDT) is a collaboration between the Process Intensification Group at Newcastle University and the Green Chemistry Centre of Excellence at the University of York.

  • Funding: A tax-free annual stipend at the standard UKRI rate (£19,237 for 2024/25 entry), research costs and tuition fees at UK rate
  • Academic year: 2025/26
  • Department: Any
  • Application deadline: Sunday 24 November 2024, 11.59pm GMT
  • Qualification level: Postgraduate research
  • Open to: International (including EU) and UK (home) students
  • Number available: 3

Gowrie bursary

This bursary is targeted at those who are serving or have served in the Australian Defence Forces and their lineal descendants, particularly those for whom the monetary value will make a real difference.

  • Funding: $8,000 AUD per annum
  • Academic year: 2025/26
  • Department: Any
  • Qualification level: Postgraduate research
  • Open to: Students from Australia
  • Number available: 2

Jansons Scholarships

Jansons scholarship will help to finance studying abroad for certain postgraduate degrees.

  • Funding: up to NOK 150,000
  • Academic year: 2025/26
  • Department: Any
  • Qualification level: Postgraduate research and Postgraduate taught
  • Open to: Students from Norway

John Monash Scholarship

The John Monash Scholarship provides yearly funding to outstanding postgraduate taught and research students from Australia.

  • Funding: $75,000 AUD for each year of study
  • Academic year: 2025/26
  • Department: Any
  • Qualification level: Postgraduate research and Postgraduate taught
  • Open to: Students from Australia
  • Number available: 10-20

Overseas PhD Scholarships for University of the Punjab in service non-PhD teachers

This scholarship is aimed at candidates who have secured a PhD place for at a university ranked in the top 200 of the QS World University Rankings.

  • Funding: TBC
  • Academic year: 2025/26
  • Department: Any
  • Qualification level: Postgraduate research
  • Open to: Students from Pakistan

Roberta Sykes scholarship

The Roberta Sykes Indigenous Education Foundation provides supplementary financial assistance to Indigenous Postgraduate students who wish to undertake studies at recognised universities outside of Australia.

  • Funding: $60,000 AUD per year
  • Academic year: 2025/26
  • Department: Any
  • Qualification level: Postgraduate research and Postgraduate taught
  • Open to: Students from Australia

Tan Kah Kee Scholarship

The Tan Kah Kee Scholarship offers postgraduate scholarships for Singapore citizens and permanent residents pursuing full-time PhD or Masters degrees.

  • Funding: $12,000
  • Academic year: 2025/26
  • Department: Any
  • Application deadline: Saturday 31 May 2025, 11.30am BST
  • Qualification level: Postgraduate research and Postgraduate taught
  • Open to: Students from Singapore

Extracurricular funding

While not directly related to your studies, these opportunities can help you get the most from your time at York.

York Minster Choral Scholarships

York Minster offers choral scholarships lasting 12 months or longer to altos, tenors and basses who are undergraduate or postgraduate students.

  • Funding: £7,721.33
  • Academic year: 2024/25
  • Department: Any
  • Qualification level: Postgraduate research, Postgraduate taught and Undergraduate
  • Open to: International (including EU) and UK (home) students

Previous funding opportunities

These opportunities are closed to applications. They may reopen in future years.

ANID / Becas Chile

We offer a 25% tuition fee discount for Becas Chile-sponsored postgraduate students.

  • Funding: 25% tuition fee discount
  • Academic year: 2025/26
  • Department: Any
  • Qualification level: Postgraduate research and Postgraduate taught
  • Open to: Students from Chile

BAföG

German students may be able to obtain funding through BAföG for postgraduate courses that can usually be completed within one year, such as a one-year masters.

  • Funding: Funding towards tuition fees and accommodation, living and travel costs
  • Academic year: 2025/26
  • Department: Any
  • Qualification level: Postgraduate taught
  • Open to: Students from Germany

Beca Carlos Quijano

This scholarship aims to subsidise expenses for postgraduate training for students with Uruguayan citizenship.

  • Funding: Up to $U120,000
  • Academic year: 2025/26
  • Department: Any
  • Application deadline: Friday 31 January 2025, 11.59pm GMT
  • Qualification level: Postgraduate research and Postgraduate taught
  • Open to: Students from Uruguay

Canadian Centennial Scholarship Fund

These scholarships offer £5,000 each year to eligible Canadians studying for a postgraduate degree who have completed their first year of study.

  • Funding: £5,000 per year
  • Academic year: 2025/26
  • Department: Any
  • Application deadline: Saturday 15 March 2025, 4.59am GMT
  • Qualification level: Postgraduate research and Postgraduate taught
  • Open to: Students from Canada

Care Leavers and Estranged Students Bursary

This bursary is for students aged under 25, who come to York as care leavers or who are irreconcilably estranged from their parents.

  • Funding: Annual awards over the duration of your course
  • Academic year: 2024/25
  • Department: Any
  • Qualification level: Undergraduate
  • Open to: UK (home) students

Colfuturo

We grant a 25% tuition fee discount to most Colfuturo-sponsored postgraduate students. It is possible to combine this discount with most University of York partial scholarships. 

  • Funding: 25% tuition fee discount
  • Academic year: 2025/26
  • Department: Any
  • Application deadline: Friday 28 February 2025, 11.59pm GMT
  • Qualification level: Postgraduate research and Postgraduate taught
  • Open to: Students from Colombia

Commonwealth Scholarship

The University of York is a host university for the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission. Various opportunities are available throughout the year. The majority of awards are funded by the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.

  • Funding: various
  • Academic year: 2024/25
  • Department: Any
  • Qualification level: Postgraduate research and Postgraduate taught
  • Open to: Students from Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belize and more (see eligibility)

Cowrie Foundation Scholarship

Created to offer support to Black British undergraduates from socio-economically disadvantaged backgrounds.

  • Funding: Tuition fees at the UK (home) rate, plus a maintenance stipend of up to £8,000 for each year of your course.
  • Academic year: 2025/26
  • Department: Any
  • Qualification level: Undergraduate
  • Open to: UK (home) students
  • Number available: Two

Dean's Global Excellence Scholarship

To reward excellence, the Dean's Global Excellence Scholarship offers a tuition fee discount to talented undergraduate students within the faculties.

  • Funding: Full tuition fee discount for the first year followed by £10,000 tuition fee discount for the second and third year.
  • Academic year: 2024/25
  • Department: Any
  • Qualification level: Undergraduate
  • Open to: International (including EU) students
  • Number available: 2 per faculty

Gowrie bursary

This bursary is targeted at those who are serving or have served in the Australian Defence Forces and their lineal descendants, particularly those for whom the monetary value will make a real difference.

  • Funding: $8,000 AUD per annum
  • Academic year: 2025/26
  • Department: Any
  • Qualification level: Postgraduate research
  • Open to: Students from Australia
  • Number available: 2

International Achievement Scholarship

Through this scholarship, we aim to celebrate the achievements of our best and brightest international undergraduate applicants.

  • Funding: £10,000 (first year of study only)
  • Academic year: 2024/25
  • Department: Any
  • Qualification level: Undergraduate
  • Open to: International (including EU) students
  • Number available: 50

International Regional Scholarship

Our International Regional Scholarship is here to support international undergraduate and postgraduate students to help them excel.

  • Funding: £2,500 - £9,000 (first year of study only)
  • Academic year: 2024/25
  • Department: Any
  • Qualification level: Postgraduate taught and Undergraduate
  • Open to: International (including EU) students

Jansons Scholarships

Jansons scholarship will help to finance studying abroad for certain postgraduate degrees.

  • Funding: up to NOK 150,000
  • Academic year: 2025/26
  • Department: Any
  • Qualification level: Postgraduate research and Postgraduate taught
  • Open to: Students from Norway

John Monash Scholarship

The John Monash Scholarship provides yearly funding to outstanding postgraduate taught and research students from Australia.

  • Funding: $75,000 AUD for each year of study
  • Academic year: 2025/26
  • Department: Any
  • Qualification level: Postgraduate research and Postgraduate taught
  • Open to: Students from Australia
  • Number available: 10-20

Norwegian State Educational Loan Fund Lånekassen

The Ministry provides grants and loans for higher education study outside of the Nordic region.

  • Funding: Various
  • Academic year: 2025/26
  • Department: Any
  • Qualification level: Postgraduate research, Postgraduate taught and Undergraduate
  • Open to: Students from Norway

Overseas PhD Scholarships for University of the Punjab in service non-PhD teachers

This scholarship is aimed at candidates who have secured a PhD place for at a university ranked in the top 200 of the QS World University Rankings.

  • Funding: TBC
  • Academic year: 2025/26
  • Department: Any
  • Qualification level: Postgraduate research
  • Open to: Students from Pakistan

Roberta Sykes scholarship

The Roberta Sykes Indigenous Education Foundation provides supplementary financial assistance to Indigenous Postgraduate students who wish to undertake studies at recognised universities outside of Australia.

  • Funding: $60,000 AUD per year
  • Academic year: 2025/26
  • Department: Any
  • Qualification level: Postgraduate research and Postgraduate taught
  • Open to: Students from Australia

Tan Kah Kee Scholarship

The Tan Kah Kee Scholarship offers postgraduate scholarships for Singapore citizens and permanent residents pursuing full-time PhD or Masters degrees.

  • Funding: $12,000
  • Academic year: 2025/26
  • Department: Any
  • Application deadline: Saturday 31 May 2025, 11.30am BST
  • Qualification level: Postgraduate research and Postgraduate taught
  • Open to: Students from Singapore

United Arab Emirates Ministry of Education Scholarships

The United Arab Emirates Ministry of Education offers a number scholarships for Emirati students to study abroad.

  • Funding: Various
  • Academic year: 2025/26
  • Department: Any
  • Qualification level: Postgraduate research, Postgraduate taught and Undergraduate
  • Open to: Students from United Arab Emirates

York Bursary

Depending on your household residual income you could be eligible for our non-repayable York bursary.

  • Funding: Annual award over the course of your degree
  • Academic year: 2024/25
  • Department: Any
  • Qualification level: Undergraduate
  • Open to: UK (home) students

York Refugee Bursary

The Refugee Bursary is a non-repayable award for students who come to York and have a Refugee immigration status.

  • Funding: Annual award over course of degree
  • Academic year: 2024/25
  • Qualification level: Undergraduate
  • Open to: UK (home) students

Contact us

York School of Architecture
General enquiries

ysa-enquiries@york.ac.uk