Academic Excellence Award
20%
2024-25 and 2025-26 academic year
Unlimited awards available
Subjects: Academic Excellence Award
About this award
You may be able to benefit from a 20% discount towards your fees for postgraduate degrees.
See eligibility criteria below if you are starting in May 2025 or from September 2025 onwards.
Eligibility (May 2025 entry)
If you have successfully completed an undergraduate degree course with first-class honours from any other UK university in the last 10 academic years between 2014-15 and 2023-24 you are eligible for this discount; supporting evidence is required.
How to apply (May 2025 entry)
This offer applies to students enrolling on an on-campus postgraduate course in May 2025 entry and the discount will automatically be applied to your course fee if you meet the qualifying criteria.
* Please note, unless otherwise stated, this offer cannot be used in conjunction with any other fee reduction scheme or discount offer. The University reserves the right to amend the amount of any reduction and/or the qualifying criteria at any time.
Online courses and courses with non-standard fees are not eligible for the academic excellence award.
Eligibility (September 2025 entry onwards)
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).
*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 (September 2025 entry onwards)
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.