Scholarship overview

  • Degree level

    Undergraduate

  • Value

    One-off cash bursary of £1,000 paid in 2025-26 only

  • Number of awards

    1

  • Academic year

    2025/2026

  • Tuition fee status

    Home

  • Mode of study

    Full time, Part time

  • Available to

    Prospective students

  • Application deadline

    05/09/2025 Closed

  • Additional information

    scholarships@imperial.ac.uk

  • Available to applicants in the following departments

    • Aeronautics
    • Bioengineering
    • Chemical Engineering
    • Civil and Environmental Engineering
    • Computing
    • Design Engineering
    • Earth Science and Engineering
    • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
    • Materials
    • Mechanical Engineering

Eligibility criteria

 

Must have household income of £70,000 or less confirmed by their local funding authority (SFE, SFW, SAAS or SFNI) by 23:59pm (UK local time) Friday 5 September 2025.

Be classed as from a ‘widening participation’ background. You must qualify for our contextual admissions schemes.

Have a disability as defined in section 6 of the Equality Act 2010.

A disability is defined as a physical or mental impairment that has a substantial and long-term adverse effect on a person's ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities. Examples include:

 - Physical impairment

 - Vision impairment/Blind

 - Hearing impairment/Deaf

 - Specific Learning Difficulty e.g., Dyslexia, Dyspraxia

 - Learning or intellectual disability

- Neurodivergence or neurological disorder

Please note: This scholarship is available to new entrants only. Students already studying the course are not eligible.

Application process

  1. Complete the scholarship application form by 11:59pm (UK local time), [DATE].

  2. Have an unconditional offer to study at Imperial for the 2026/27 academic year.

  3. Submit a student finance application and be 'means-tested' by the equivalent student funding authority. 'Means-tested’ is when a student submits details of their household income, to help their student finance body assess how much they’re eligible to receive in maintenance support. To be considered for this scholarship, your household income information must be less than £70,000 per annum and must be confirmed to us by the deadline of 11:59pm (UK local time), [DATE].

    Please make sure you consent to share with Imperial your household income information (Your household income is your parents' or partner's income, plus yours) to Student Finance. This is important as we need to be able to access your household income information to determine your eligibility for this scholarship.

Additional information

The successful applicant will be contacted in December 2026 and will be asked to confidentially provide evidence of their disability to Imperial’s Disability Advisory Service team.  If you have not heard from our team by the end of December please assume your application has been unsuccessful.

 

The grant shall be paid as a one-off payment to the successful applicant in January 2027.

Contact

If you have any additional questions, please contact us at scholarships@imperial.ac.uk.