Fund Your Future

Continue your student journey at Lancaster

Postgraduate study is another step up in your education and an important investment towards a rewarding future.

To take this path, you’ll most probably need support to cover your fees, learning resources, and living costs, including accommodation, travel, and food.

That’s where our Alumni Loyalty Scholarship and the Student Finance Postgraduate Master’s Loan comes in.

Take your next step with Postgraduate funding.

Fund your future at Lancaster

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Postgraduate Master's Loan

The Government Postgraduate Master’s Loan can assist you with your course fees and living costs, with funding that doesn’t need to be repaid until your income is over the threshold amount.

Postgraduate Master's Loan
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Alumni Loyalty Scholarship

The Alumni Loyalty Scholarship offers a 10% tuition fee discount for Lancaster University graduates on postgraduate taught, MRes and Master’s by research programmes.

To be eligible for the Alumni Loyalty Scholarship you must hold an undergraduate or master’s degree awarded by Lancaster University, achieved at any time, including one delivered through an associated institution. Alumni who completed an undergraduate or postgraduate qualification that included Lancaster University as a study abroad location are also be eligible for the award.

Awards will be automatically deducted from your tuition fees invoice.

Where eligible, the Alumni Loyalty Scholarship can be combined with Lancaster Master’s Excellence Scholarship (Home or International) or the International Regional Scholarship.

*This Scholarship or bursary is for applicants joining Lancaster University in October 2026.

Our admissions team can help with questions about scholarships and bursaries as well as other general enquiries about applying to Lancaster University.

Alumni Loyalty Scholarship

The Alumni Loyalty Scholarship really benefitted me. Thanks to the Alumni Loyalty Scholarship, things that were originally a challenge and worry for me became a lot less stressful and I was able to continue to postgraduate study.

A quote from Libby, MA Media and Cultural Studies 2023