Financing Your Studies
Loughborough University funding
We offer more than 100 studentships for taught and research programmes and many departments award their own scholarships and bursaries.
Ask for details of these and possible sponsorship opportunities from the department concerned when you apply. More specific funding opportunities are shown below.
Funding available for all Students
Departmental Bursaries and Scholarships
Many departments offer bursaries to eligible categories of students, and scholarships on a competive basis, some of which cover all tuition fees. Up-to-date information is available from our website at www.lboro.ac.uk/funding or speak to the department concerned.
Loughborough Sports Scholarships
At Loughborough we understand the pressures of combining studying with elite level competition. We aim to provide our sports scholars with first class coaching, sports science and sports medicine support, access to extensive indoor and outdoor training and competition facilities, a life skills programme, a high level of support and an annual cash award.
Our elite sports scholarships offer exceptional students targeting the 2012 Olympics or the 2014 Commonwealth Games all of the above along with a contribution of up to £3,000 towards tuition fees, facility membership (where applicable) and free parking on campus.
To be eligible to apply for either sports scholarship you need to have gained a place on a postgraduate course and be competing in your chosen sport at least at junior international level. Sports scholarships are offered across all sports and all departments.
For more information visit their website at www.loughboroughsport.com/scholars or contact
Ruth Goodfield
Sports Scholarship Co-ordinator
Sports Development Centre,
Loughborough University,
Loughborough,
Leicestershire, LE11 3TU
Tel: 01509 226108
Email: sports-scholars@lboro.ac.uk
Music Tuition and Scholarships
The Music Centre offers subsidised music tuition in a range of instruments or for voice. The University heavily subsidises the tuition with the students only paying £55 for 20 lessons. You must register your interest for the tuition at the start of each academic year.
The University also offers up to three music scholarships each year selected by an independent panel of distinguished musicians. These are awards of £500 and the scholars are expected to give a recital in the Spring.
For further information contact Jo Mardell on +44 (0)1509 222960 or visit the Arts at Loughborough website.
Prizes
University and departmental prizes and bursaries are awarded in many departments to postgraduate students who perform exceptionally well in their work or who contribute to the development of cooperation between the University and the local community.
Prizes awarded to postgraduate students currently include the prestigious Loughborough University Postgraduate Prize and the Loughborough University Postgraduate Progression Prize, each valued at £400, and two John Guest Memorial Travelling Scholarships, each valued at £500, awarded to research students to give them the opportunity to extend their knowledge of their subject, either within this country or overseas.
For more information visit our University Prizes pages.
Access to Learning Fund (ALF)
The ALF is available to UK postgraduate (taught and research) students studying at least 50% of a full-time course who have higher than average costs or who experience unanticipated financial difficulties. To qualify,students must meet the same residence conditions as for student loans.
Postgraduate Taught Care Leavers Bursary
Care leavers from the UK who have recently graduated and want to progress onto full-time postgraduate study may be eligible for a bursary worth up to £2,660 which is intended for assistance with the cost of their study.
For more information contact j.sanders@lboro.ac.uk.