To be eligible for the Warwick Bursary you must meet all of the following eligibility criteria:
You must be a full-time Home undergraduate student for fee purposes and domiciled in England, Scotland or Northern Ireland.
You must be eligible for and have applied to Student Finance England (SFE), Student Finance Northern Ireland (SFNI) or the Student Awards Agency Scotland (SAAS) for income-assessed financial support via the undergraduate funding system.*
*If you do not wish to take out a loan you should still apply for a household income assessment to be carried out and request a loan of £0.
You must have a family income of £42,875 or below, as assessed by SFE, SFNI or SAAS
If you are a MBChB student in years 2-4 where the Maintenance Loan is non-means-tested, you should apply for a household income assessment to be carried out and state that this is "for bursary purposes".
Awards
The amount of award that you can receive from the Warwick Bursary depends upon your annual household income (as assessed by your student support awarding body). Awards are paid on a sliding scale of £500 - £2,500 per academic year, which is demonstrated in the below table.
Annual Household Income
Warwick Bursary
£0 - £25,000
£2,500
£25,000.01 - £35,000
£1,250
£35,000.01 - £42,875
£500
For the 2025-26 academic year, household income will be taken from the 2023-24 tax year and will depend on the people you live with: your parent(s)/carer(s), your parent/carer and their partner or your partner. For more information on how your income is assessed see our web page on student support for 2025 entry.
Application
You do not need to apply for the Warwick Bursary. Student Funding Support receives a list of potentially eligible students from the student support awarding bodies (SFE, SFNI and SAAS) and subsequently checks whether each student meets the rest of the criteria outlined above.
We will start carrying out eligibility checks and notifying eligible students who have a completed student support application from the end of August 2025. If your student support application is still in progress at the end of August 2025 you should expect to hear from us within 8 weeks of your application being complete
If you are approved for a Warwick Bursary you will receive an email to the account you have registered with your student support awarding body. Here you can find details about your award, including payment dates.
Payment
The Warwick Bursary is paid directly into the same bank account that you registered when applying for your Maintenance Loan. Therefore, you do not need to provide Student Funding Support with your bank details.
The Warwick Bursary is paid in three equal termly instalments. Your exact payment dates will be outlined in your confirmation letter.
If you are a late applicant for Student Finance and subsequently your Warwick Bursary is approved after the start of term, your payment dates may not align with the standard dates. Please refer to your confirmation letter for further details.
FAQ's
You do not have to take out a Tuition Fee Loan or Maintenance Loan in order to be eligible for a Warwick Bursary but we do need to be able to see that you are eligible for these loans and what your family income has been assessed as. If you wish to be considered for a Warwick Bursary you should make an application to Student Finance England (or Student Finance Northern Ireland / Student Awards Agency Scotland as appropriate), apply for a household income assessment to be carried out and request a loan of £0.
As long as you meet the rest of the eligibility criteria you can apply separately for your household income to be assessed. We will post further details and links to the appropriate forms in time for the 2026-27 academic year.
Students with a family income of over £42,875 are ineligible to receive the Warwick Bursary. This is to ensure that our support is targeted at those students most in need of additional financial support during their studies.
Students remain on the scheme that applied during their first year of study. You will therefore continue to receive the 2024 Warwick Bursary support package providing that you continue to meet all the 2024 Warwick Bursary eligibility criteria.
The scheme that students are on is determined by the year in which they first started to study. Students commencing their course in 2025 will receive the new 2025 Warwick Bursary support package if they meet the eligibility criteria.
The Warwick Bursary is for undergraduate students domiciled in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland only. Students domiciled in Wales are ineligible for the Warwick Bursary as they can access a more generous financial support package from Student Finance Wales than students from elsewhere in the UK. This increased support may be in the form of a maintenance loan and in some cases a non-repayable Welsh Government Learning Grant.
