Aziz Foundation Scholarship (2026)
What you get
Full fee waiver
Type of award
Full tuition fee waiver
Funding type
Partnership
Eligibility
- Who is eligible
To be eligible for this scholarship, you must:
- Be eligible for 'Home' fee status
- Be applying for a Masters in Media and Journalism, Sports, Arts and Culture, Sustainability and Environment, Technology, Policy or Law
- Be active within a Muslim community and demonstrate intimate knowledge of issues affecting British Muslim communities
- Be Zakat-eligible/in financial need
- Demonstrate excellent understanding of your chosen industry and how to progress witin it, with relevant prior experience and/or achievements in the field
- Demonstrate knowledge of how the course will enable you to generate social impact
- Demonstrate long-term commitment to community/societal development within Britain
- Show how the course will increase your effectiveness in one of the following areas relating to British Muslims:
Effective Advocacy and Enhance Public Perception – facilitating better representation and contribution of Muslims to civil society to combat Islamophobia and positively transform perceptions of British Muslims
Community Service and Social Development – raising the aspirations and standards within British Muslim communities
- Who isn’t eligible
You are not eligible for this scholarship if you:
- Are applying for a Masters at a university that is not at the Βι¶ΉΣ³»
- Are progressing into the final year of an integrated Masters at Βι¶ΉΣ³»
- Are studying an online course
- Are already holding another Βι¶ΉΣ³» scholarship (i.e Chancellor's Masters Scholarship)
- Are studying one of the Excluded courses listed below.
- Excluded courses
You are not eligible for this scholarship if you are going to study any of the following:
- Certificates and Diplomas (including PGCE)
- Courses at Brighton and Βι¶ΉΣ³» Medical School (BSMS)
- MSc Climate Change, Development & Policy
- MA Development Studies
- MA Food and Development
- MA Gender and Development
- MA Globalisation, Business and Development
- MA Governance, Development and Public Policy
- MA Poverty, Policy and Development Practice
- MA Power, Participation and Social Change
- MPhil courses
- Early Years Education (with Early Years Teacher status)
- MBA
- Degrees in Social Work (if receiving an NHS bursary)
- Online courses
- Schools direct teaching courses
- Any Masters funded by the research councils (e.g. those receiving ESRC 1+3 funding)
Number of scholarships available
Up to 5 scholarships are available
Deadline
1 May 2026 12:00How to apply
Applications for 2026 entry will open in January.
To apply for an Aziz Foundation scholarship, please visit the .
The successful applicants will be selected through an interview process run by the Aziz Foundation. The scholarship will cover only the tuition fees at the Βι¶ΉΣ³». Applicants do not need to hold an offer prior to applying. However, please note that admission to the scholarship programme will depend on Βι¶ΉΣ³»’s separate admissions process.
Funding partners
The Βι¶ΉΣ³» is one of the Aziz Foundation’s preferred partners. These institutions:
- share core values with the Aziz Foundation and actively promote Widening Participation at postgraduate level
- are aware of concerns of unconscious bias and addressing the BaME attainment gap
- provide specific cultural and social support to BaME students
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Availability
At level(s):
PG (taught)
Application deadline:
1 May 2026 12:00 (GMT)
Countries
The award is available to people from the following country: