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Academic Excellence Award

20%

2025-26 & 2026-27 academic year

Unlimited awards available

Subjects: Academic Excellence Award


About this award

Students demonstrating outstanding academic performance may be eligible for a 20% Academic Excellence Award for postgraduate degrees (both on-campus and online).


Eligibility

You must:

  • be a UK home-fee paying student studying on-campus, or a UK home fee-paying or international-fee paying student studying an online course
  • have successfully achieved a first class honours degree from any UK university, excluding Teesside University
  • provide supporting evidence of the qualification/result
  • have graduated within the previous 10 academic years.
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 course fees if you meet the qualifying criteria. 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.


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