Cowrie Scholarship Foundation Scholarship

The University of Hull and The Cowrie Scholarship Foundation (CSF) will offer a scholarship to support Black African and Caribbean heritage applicants from socio-economically under-represented backgrounds. Applicants must be ordinarily resident in the UK and commencing undergraduate study in the academic year 2022/2023. The Cowrie Scholarship Foundation wants to fund 100 Black British students through UK universities in the next decade. The scholarship will cover your home UK tuition fees and a maintenance stipend of £8,000 for each year of your course. The scholarship is tenable for the duration of your programme of study, subject to satisfactory progression. The maintenance stipend consists of a University of Hull bursary (£2,000 per annum), and an award of £6,000 per annum from the Cowrie Scholarship Foundation. You must meet all of the following criteria to be considered for this scholarship:

Identify as belonging to one of the following ethnic groups:
Black or Black British - Caribbean
Black or Black British - African
Mixed - White and Black Caribbean
Mixed - White and Black African
Other Black background
Have firmly accepted an offer of a place at the University of Hull, to Year 0 or Year 1 of a full-time undergraduate degree programme, to commence study in the 2022-2023 academic year.
This must be your first degree - you must not already hold a degree or equivalent higher-level qualification.
You must have been assessed for fee status as a 'home' student, or expect to be assessed as a 'home' student.
Have a household income of £25,000 per annum or less
Have made an application to your regional student funding authority for income assessed UK government financial support for higher education students. The regional student funding authorities are: Student Finance England, Student Finance Wales, Student Finance NI and the Student Awards Agency for Scotland.