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Overview
Scholarship type
Merit and need based
Number of scholarships to award
Multiple
Grant
£4,000
Scholarship coverage
- tuition fee reduction
Description
The Keates-Lee Educational Trust Bursary is a 1st year scholarship available to high-achieving undergraduate students from African nations.
Benefits
These scholarships will be granted as a £3,500 reduction on the total cost of tuition fee that is payable for the students’ 1st year of study at the University. Payment cannot be offset against the tuition fee deposit. An additional £500 will be available to each student at the end of their final semester in 1st year, to support with any travel or accommodation expenses over the Summer break.
Eligibility
Students must be applying for a 3-year or 4-year undergraduate programme in one of the following subject areas:
- Accounting and Finance
- Agriculture
- Biosciences
- Business & Management
- Ecological Sciences
- Economics
- Engineering
- Geography, Earth & Environmental Science
- Law
- Political & International Relations
- Veterinary Studies
Applicants must meet one of the following criteria:
- Are permanently resident in an African nation.
- Are refugees, domiciled in the UK, who have been forcibly displaced due to recent or ongoing conflict; persecution; or humanitarian crises.
Students must be international-fee payers.
Students must be self-funding and not in receipt of any external scholarships.
Students should meet the University’s usual entry requirements, including completion of high school within 2 years of the start date at Aberystwyth University.
Students must be high-performing in their high school grades, demonstrating they have achieved or are on track to achieve one of the following, or equivalent, as deemed by the scholarship awards committee:
- A-level 3 x B Grades and above
- IB score of 32 and above
- US Diploma GPA of 3.2 or above
- Minimum 3 x A1 Grades at WAEC/NECO/WASSCE
- Overall A in KCSE
- Minimum 3 x scores of 7 in NSC
- Moroccan Bac. 16/20
- Algerian Bac. 16/20
- UACE 3 x B Grades and above
Scholarship requirements
Disciplines
Any
Locations
United Kingdom
Nationality
54 nationalities
Study experience required
High school
Age
Unknown
Application
Application deadline
27 Feb 2027
Please complete the online application form before the deadline of February 27th 12:00 GMT – the form will automatically close at this point.