Asylum Seeker Scholarship 2023 - Undergraduate

To qualify for an asylum-seeker scholarship, students must first apply for, and receive an offer of admission for the academic year 2023-24 to an undergraduate degree programme at Queen's University Belfast and meet the eligibility criteria below:

You must be a registered asylum seeker in the UK and must be currently resident in Northern Ireland, to be considered for this scheme.
You must have discretionary or limited leave to remain in the UK, be a dependant of someone with discretionary or limited leave to remain as a result of an application for refugee-status, or you or your parent/guardian have submitted an asylum application and not yet received a decision from the Home Office on that application.
You must be unable to access mainstream UK student funding due to your immigration status i.e. you are not eligible for Student Finance for the 2023-24 academic year.
You must submit an application for a place of study on a full-time undergraduate course starting in the academic year 2023-24 at Queen's University Belfast through UCAS by 26 January 2023.
You must hold a conditional or unconditional offer or have 'decision pending' status from Queen's University Belfast by 01 April 2023. Candidates are required to meet any academic and language conditions attached to their offer as stated in their offer letter.

N.B. Please note that if you have already been granted Refugee Status or Humanitarian Protection Status as the result of an asylum application, you may be eligible to apply for financial support from Student Finance NI.

Exclusions

Please note that asylum-seeker scholarships are NOT available for the following programmes:

All programmes which have quota controls, including Medicine, Dentistry, Social Work, Nursing, Midwifery and Theology.
All Distance Learning programmes, foundation degree programmes and part-time courses.