Scholarships at York St John University

We offer competitive scholarships of up to £1,000 for all fee paying international students. The scholarships are for undergraduate, postgraduate or research courses at our York Campus.

Once you are holding an offer from us, you can complete a short task to apply for the scholarship. This task lets us know how you will contribute to the university and our community. Please see the form for deadlines to apply.

We will contact you within two weeks of your scholarship application to inform you of the outcome. If you are successful £1,000 will be taken off the fees for your first year of study with us.

Alumni who graduated from full or part time study at York St John University or one of our Partner Colleges in 2019, 2020 or 2021 can get a scholarship to cover their postgraduate course fees. The scholarship you can get is based on your undergraduate degree award.

Alumni who graduated in 2019, 2020 or 2021 from full or part time study at York St John University or one of our Partner Colleges on a postgraduate course can also receive a scholarship for one of our research degrees.

These scholarships apply to both our postgraduate taught and research courses (see exclusions below). They apply to courses at our York or London campuses.

These scholarships do not apply to our Physiotherapy (Pre-registration) MSc, Occupational Therapy (Pre-registration) MSc, Professional Doctorate in Counselling or any of our PCGE courses.

The Progression scholarship cannot be combined with the Alumni scholarship fee reduction.

All of our alumni can get a 10% reduction in their postgraduate course fees. It does not matter when you graduated.

The Alumni Scholarship does not apply to our Physiotherapy (Pre-registration) MSc, Occupational Therapy (Pre-registration) MSc or the Professional Doctorate in Counselling.

The Alumni scholarship cannot be combined with the Progression scholarship.

International students who are successful in gaining offers for the following 8 undergraduate taught courses will be eligible for a scholarship worth £3,750 per year: 

• BA (Hons) International Business

• BSc (Hons) Digital Marketing and Data Analytics

• BSc (Hons) Computer Science

• BSc (Hons) Software Engineering

• Law LLB (Hons)

• BA (Hons) Hospitality and Tourism Management

• BSc (Hons) Games Development

• BSc (Hons) Accounting & Finance

Please note: to be eligible for this scholarship, students must be starting year 1 of the degree programme and must pay the first year's fees in FULL prior to enrolment.