Academic Excellence Award

About this award

You may be able to benefit from a 20% discount towards your fees for postgraduate degrees (on campus and online).

Eligibility

You must:

• be a UK home-fee paying student (also available to international-fee paying students for online courses only)
• have successfully achieved a first class honours degree from any UK university
• provide supporting evidence of the qualification/result
• have graduated within the previous 10 academic years (between 2015-16 and 2024-25).

You may be eligible even if you’ve received a discount for previous postgraduate courses with us.

*Courses not eligible for the discount (all routes):

• University certificates and short courses
• CertEd
• Integrated masters
• MPhil
• PgCert
• PgDip
• PhD by completed work/writing up
• ProfGradCert
• PGCE ITT (with QTS)
• PGCEi (Online)
• PGCE Education and Training

How to apply

The discount is automatically applied to your fee if you meet the qualifying criteria, unless you’re studying an online course, where you can apply to be reimbursed for the discounted amount. You may continue to benefit from this discount if you go on to study additional postgraduate degrees.

Please note: the University reserves the right to amend the amount of any reduction and/or the qualifying criteria at any time.