or
Continue with FacebookLooking to list your Masters courses? Log in here.
Scholarship details
We offer scholarships for forced migrants to the UK. The Sanctuary Scholarship is open to people who wish to study any undergraduate or postgraduate taught (Masters) degree.
The scholarship covers the full cost of tuition fees and £10,000 a year towards study costs. If you receive the Sanctuary Scholarship, you won’t need to pay the money back. In addition, you may be offered a place on an optional pre-sessional language course (6 or 10 weeks in Summer 2025) which will enable you to meet any language requirements attached to your offer to study.
There are a limited number of scholarships available and you must apply. If your application is successful, we will invite you to an interview. Not everybody who applies is invited for an interview.
To apply for this scholarship you must:
- Be a forced migrant to the United Kingdom. This means you are a person displaced from your homeland or place of residence for political, economic, ethnic, environmental, or human rights pressures. You must have one of the residency statuses listed in the next section.
- Be unable to access mainstream funding, for example from Student Finance England or a local authority grant.
- Have already applied to study at the University in the upcoming academic year.
- Not have a degree from a UK university of the same level or higher than the course you want to study at Leeds.
- Be eligible for paying tuition fees at the UK rate. If you receive an offer to study that states you must pay tuition fees at the International rate, make sure you use the fee assessment process to confirm if this is correct.
For more information on the application process, please visit our website.
Eligibility details
To apply for this scholarship you must:
- Be a forced migrant to the United Kingdom. This means you are a person displaced from your homeland or place of residence for political, economic, ethnic, environmental, or human rights pressures. You must have one of the residency statuses listed in the next section.
- Be unable to access mainstream funding, for example from Student Finance England or a local authority grant.
- Have already applied to study at the University in the upcoming academic year.
- Not have a degree from a UK university of the same level or higher than the course you want to study at Leeds.
- Be eligible for paying tuition fees at the UK rate. If you receive an offer to study that states you must pay tuition fees at the International rate, make sure you use the fee assessment process to confirm if this is correct.
Application process
For more information on the application process, please visit our website.
Eligible courses
Ask a question
The university will respond to you directly. You will have a FindAMasters account to view your sent enquiries and receive email alerts with new Masters opportunities and guidance to help you choose the right course.
It looks like you alredy have a FindAMasters Account
Log in to save time sending your enquiry and view previously sent enquiries
The information you submit to University of Leeds will only be used by them or their data partners to deal with your enquiry, according to their privacy notice. For more information on how we use and store your data, please read our privacy statement.
Please correct the errors indicated below to send your enquiry
Where will I study?
Related Scholarships
Last updated on 30 Oct 2025
Scholarships advertised on FindAMasters are added and updated by the university. Universities can provide an application deadline, and the scholarship will be removed from FindAMasters after this date. For up-to-date information please always check the university website. Universities can list unlimited scholarships on FindAMasters and listings are not prioritised or influenced by paid advertising.
