Sussex Excellence Scholarships (2017)
The Sussex Excellence Scholarship is a merit-based award recognising, and rewarding, undergraduate students who achieved excellent academic performance before joining the University.
The Sussex Excellence Scholarship is worth £3,000 in Year One of a three or four year undergraduate degree:
- £1,000 cash award and £2,000 rent reduction if you are living in University-managed accommodation *
or
- £3,000 cash award if you are not living in University-managed accommodation *
* Please note Abacus House is not University managed.
Type of award
Undergraduate
Award amount
£1,000 cash award and £2,000 rent reduction, or further cash payment, in year one of a three or four year undergraduate degree.
Eligibility
You will automatically be awarded the Sussex Excellence Scholarship if you have achieved the required scholarship threshold in one of the eligible academic qualifications. See the full eligibility criteria below for details.
Application procedure
If your qualification is listed below and you achieve the minimum grades listed you will be automatically awarded the Sussex Excellence Scholarship. There is no separate application form.
Qualifications not listed above
If you are taking other qualification, and are achieving outstanding results, you can apply for one of 10 additional scholarships. Selection will be based on academic merit. The successful students will be taking qualifications equivalent to British A levels and be achieving very high grades (ie. it is expected that those awarded the scholarship will be achieving results within approximately the top 10% of results for that qualification.
Past recipients of these bonus scholarships have been taking qualifications like the Access to HE Diploma, the Polish Świadectwo Dojrzałości (Certificate of Maturity) and the Malaysian Unified Examination Certificate
Application procedure
Applications will open on Wednesday 1st February 2017 and the deadline for applying is Monday 3rd April 2017.
For more information please click "Further Official Information" below.
This opportunity has expired. It was originally published here:
https://www.sussex.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/fees-and-scholarships/undergraduate-scholarships-2017/view/615