Description
Application is invited to apply for Royal College of Arts RCA scholarships In the UK 2025. The RCA is committed to celebrating diversity, eliminating discrimination, and promoting equality of opportunity for all.
Royal College of Arts scholarship program is growing, with over 400 financial awards available for the 2024/25 academic year. These awards support students with financial needs and those from under-represented groups, including students with disabilities and students with refugee and asylum seeker status.
How can I get a scholarship to study at the RCA?
There are two routes to obtaining a scholarship to study at the RCA.
Academic merit
Our scholarship application process is designed to be flexible and accommodating. Several scholarships are available for high-scoring students, automatically assessed during Round 1 and 2 programme applications for MA, MFA, MDes, MRes, MArch, and MEd. If you're awarded an academic merit scholarship, you'll be informed alongside your RCA offer. Significantly, this allows you to apply for other scholarships, which may be more aligned with your financial circumstances or your status as an under-represented group in higher education. We want you to feel empowered in your scholarship journey.
Financial need or being part of an under-represented group in higher education
Applications for all Round 1 and 2 offer holders for MA, MFA, MDes, MRes, MArch, MEd and MPhil programmes have now closed, and we are unable to accept late applications.
Applicants will be marked against the criteria for the different scholarships that are available and matched to a scholarship based on their score. The Scholarships Team will write to applicants to confirm if they have been successful or unsuccessful from late May 2024. There are a small number of scholarships where an external funder may require additional information to progress an application and in these instances we will seek your consent before sharing any details of your application outside of the RCA.
If you are a Round 3 applicant, there may be a limited number of scholarships still available but they are likely to be for specific programmes or specific personal circumstances, and mostly for UK students – the majority of scholarships will be awarded to Round 1 and Round 2 applicants. We will add more information to this page if any further opportunities become available from the end of June 2024.
If you are a Graduate Diploma applicant, we will shortly be adding more information about scholarship opportunities specific to September 2024 Graduate Diploma entry onwards.
If you are a PhD applicant, queries about Doctoral Training Grants should be directed to studentships@rca.ac.uk and further information about PGR funding and doctoral loans can be found here.
What sorts of scholarships are available for study at the RCA?
Different types of scholarships include:
Full fee payment plus living costs
Full fee payment
Partial fee payment
Contributions to living costs
Most scholarships are for UK (Home) students, though international scholarships are also available.
Please view a list of confirmed scholarships for 2024/25 in the link, or visit the programme page you're interested in to see the scholarships available.
Website URL
https://www.rca.ac.uk/study/application-process/funding-your-studies/rca-scholarships-and-awards/
