We believe that everyone with the talent to succeed should have access to higher education.
That's why we offer a range of scholarships and bursaries to help you on your way – and you don’t have to pay them back.
We understand how important financial support is for our students, so you’ll find a variety of scholarships available, some of monetary value and some others that provide equipment and learning resources to support your studies. Many are automatically awarded, you will receive them automatically without having to submit an application, if you're eligible. Others require an application to assess your eligibility.
You may be eligible for £10,000 if you are starting any three year undergraduate degree, achieve AAB and are facing financial difficulty.
You may be eligible for £2,000 if you are a care leaver and studying full-time. We are committed to supporting young people in or leaving care to progress to higher education.
You may be eligible to have your course fees paid and receive a contribution to other study costs if you are currently seeking asylum or if you are dependent on someone seeking asylum in the UK.
Loan an Apple iPad with Office 365 and a compatible keyboard, plus £100 credit each academic year to buy books and other learning resources.
We offer a generous funding package for many of our courses. They’re awarded for a number of reasons including academic achievement or to support those from underrepresented groups in higher education.
You may be eligible for £7,500 if you are studying film and TV production and facing financial difficulty.
You may be eligible for £2,500 to support your cost of living and provide access to additional or extra-curricular activities, if you are studying film and TV production, fine art or photography, and are facing financial difficulty.
You may be eligible for £6,000 if you study accounting and finance, and you have been educated at a Tees Valley school or college for at least three years.
You may be eligible for £9,000 if you identify as a woman and study a course within our Business School with outstanding ability and potential, with an interest in entrepreneurship and innovation.
You may be eligible for £2,500 if you study a course within our Business School and can demonstrate how you would use the scholarship to support career-enhancing activities, such as an internship or placement.
You may be eligible for £5,000 if you study a computing, games development or games programming course, or a course within our Business School and are from a TS postcode.
You may be eligible for £2,000 towards your accommodation fees if you live outside the TS postcode and are in your first year of study on a games or animation course.
More about our Accommodation Award for Games and Animation students
You may be eligible for £6,000 if you study a computing, games development or games programming course, have a TS postcode and are facing financial difficulty.
You may be eligible for £5,000 if you study a computing, games development or games programming course, or a course within our Business School and are from a TS postcode.
You may be eligible for £3,000 if you study selected computing or science courses, live within the Tees Valley, Richmond or Whitby and are facing financial difficulty.
You may be eligible for £6,000 if you study a computing, games development or games programming course, have a TS postcode and are facing financial difficulty.
You may be eligible for £5,000 if you study a computing, games development or games programming course, or a course within our Business School and are from a TS postcode.
You may be eligible for £2,000 if you study an engineering course, have lived in the Tees Valley for over two years and are facing financial difficulty.
You may be eligible for £27,000 if you are a high achieving student studying energy engineering.
You may be eligible for £6,000 or £8,000 if you study engineering (£6,000 for BEng (Hons) courses and £8,000 for MEng (Hons) courses).
You may be eligible for £6,000 if you study LLB (Hons) Law or LLB (Hons) Law, Criminology and Criminal Justice and are from a North East household.
You may be eligible for £3,000 if you study selected computing or science courses, live within the Tees Valley, Richmond or Whitby and are facing financial difficulty.
If you’re a high-performing athlete at international level or have exceptional international potential, or you're a keen footballer, you may be eligible for one of our sports scholarships.
You may be eligible for £1,200 if you are a footballer and identify as a woman.
You may be eligible for an individually-tailored sport support package if you are a talented athlete competing at a high level, while studying for a degree with us.
Celebrating the success and impact of Teesside University scholarships.
Offers of scholarships and awards offered by Teesside University are subject to the following conditions:
The University reserves the right to cancel, withdraw or limit an award or scholarship if you don't meet the above conditions or if you withdraw from or change your course part way (such as transfer to a degree apprenticeship) through your studies.
Please note, unless otherwise stated, these offers can't be used in conjunction with any other fee reduction scheme or discount offer. The University reserves the right to withdraw, amend the amount of any reduction or amend the qualifying criteria at any time. This doesn't affect your statutory rights.
Payment(s) are made in the January after you have been allocated your award. If your award provides support over the duration of your course, subsequent payments are made at the start of each academic year.
Please note that these offers are for full-time UK students only.
Scholarships for non-UK students