The Thrive Bursary is available to new, self-funding international students enrolling in an undergraduate course or postgraduate taught course at Swansea University.

Eligibility is based on your country of domicile, with full details of eligible countries, and all bursary conditions are outlined below.

ELIGIBILITY:

The Thrive Bursary is open to students studying taught undergraduate and taught postgraduate programmes whose ordinary residence is in one of the countries listed below. Your ordinary residence is the country where you have been domiciled for the last 5 years and excludes countries in which you reside purely for the purpose of studying.

You must be classified as an overseas student for fee purposes. If your fee status changes at any point, the bursary will be withdrawn.

You must be fully self-funding your studies.

Your Ordinary Residence must be in one of the countries listed above.

You must be enrolling on a full-time taught course at Swansea University in academic year 2027.

Your course fees must be higher than £16,000 per year to be eligible for the Thrive Bursary.

Students studying an Undergraduate course that includes a Year Abroad or Year in Industry are not eligible to receive the progression bursary in their industry year or year abroad. Those studying a two-year Masters with an industry placement will receive the bursary in Year 1 only, not in the placement year

BENEFIT:

The Thrive Bursary is awarded automatically to eligible applicants, so no separate application is required.