Postgraduate Funding
What am I entitled to?
Welsh Students applying via - STUDENT FINANCE WALES
You could get a mixture of a loan and a grant to help with your course costs. How much you get depends on your household income.
The maximum amount of funding available is a non means tested loan of up: £18,950 for 2024 to 2025
This table shows how much you could get based on examples of household income:
To be eligible you must:
- Be studying for a taught master’s degree.
- Be under 60 years of age at the start of the first academic year of your course.
- Normally reside in Wales.
- Studying at a UK university or college, or by distance learning.
More information for Welsh Students
English Students applying via - STUDENT FINANCE ENGLAND
The maximum amount of funding available is a non means tested loan of up to £12,471 for 2024 to 2025
To be eligible for a loan, you must:
- Be studying for a taught master’s degree.
- Be under 60 years of age at the start of the first academic year of your course.
- Normally reside in England.
- Be studying at a UK university or college, or by distance learning.
More information for English Students
To check if you are able to get student finance for your course here at Wrexham University, please contact our Funding & Money advice team.
For more information about our postgraduate programmes, see our postgraduate courses section or visit one of our postgraduate open evenings.
Wrexham University Postgraduate Alumni Scholarship
The university offers a Postgraduate Alumni scholarship scheme for taught postgraduate study in the academic year 2024/25.
To be eligible for the alumni scholarship, the prospective student must meet the entry requirements for their chosen postgraduate programme of study and be in receipt of an unconditional offer for entry on to that programme, to have firmly accepted that offer and to have met all entry requirements.
The following fee-waiver is available to Wrexham University graduates who wish to undertake a full or part-time postgraduate taught degree programme at Wrexham University.
- 20% for graduates who have secured a first-class degree.
- 20% for graduates with a 2:1.
- 20% for graduates with a 2:2.
NB: This is not applicable to students studying at franchise, partner institutes or online courses.
How to apply: Applicants who meet the Postgraduate Alumni Scholarship criteria and have received a conditional or unconditional offer of a place on a postgraduate programme of study will automatically have the alumni scholarship applied following enrolment. If you have any questions about the process, please see contact admissions@wrexham.ac.uk.
Deadline for applications is 31st August 2024
Terms and conditions apply, please see PG Scholarship T&Cs for more information.
Alternative Funding for Postgraduate Courses
Employer Sponsorship
Many graduates take up postgraduate study directly after completing their first degree. However, there is always the option of deferring your further study to a later date - this way you may even be lucky enough to work for an employer who is able to pay for - or at least partially fund your course, particularly if the course is relevant to your career progression.
An employer-sponsored postgraduate course can be an ideal arrangement - you will be given the opportunity to achieve a qualification that will improve your ability to do the job and will open up your career prospects, and your employer will benefit from a better-qualified, more productive and better motivated employee.
Key Things to Agree With Your Employer:
- How the fees will be paid (will you be liable for any of the costs?)
- Who will pay for your study materials?
- Time off for classes, revision and exams
- Will this time off be deducted from your holiday allowance?
- Will you be tied into an agreement. If so, how long for?
