Undergraduate Funding
Major funding
Oxford Opportunity Bursaries
Oxford Opportunity Bursaries are available for Home students from lower income households. Eligible students are entitled in to up to £4,100 in their first year and up to £3,225 in subsequent years of their course. If you are entitled to an award you will be sent a notification letter by Student Funding Services.
Access to Learning Funds - Government (includes PGCE & 2BM)
Financial assistance is available for those classified as "home" students, who face difficulty in meeting their living costs. It cannot be used to help meet tuition fees. Students will be assumed to be in receipt of their maximum student loan entitlement. Please collect a form from the Finance Bursar's Secretary, Lynne Rudman (Bursary, Room 26) or email Oxford Opportunity.
Leverhulme Trade Charities Trust Bursaries
For UK undergraduates who are closely related to a commercial traveller, chemist or grocer. Full eligibility details and application forms are available online on the Leverhulme Trade Charities Trust website.
Abbott's Bursaries
This bursary is for children of the clergy of the Church of England or Wales who are reading for an undergraduate degree (including a 2nd BA and the degree of Bachelor of Medicine). Forms available from the College Office. The deadline for applications is 5 December. Students in receipt of an Oxford Bursary should apply via a different route - application forms are sent to them early in Michaelmas Term.
Smaller grants
Hardship Grants (University)
These grants are for students who experience financial hardship as a result of unforeseen circumstances. Download the University Hardship Fund Application and University Hardship Fund Factsheet.
Hardship Grants (College)
These grants are for financial hardship as a result of unforeseen circumstances. Download a College Hardship Grant Form, to be submitted to the Senior Dean at any time. Students who are concerned about financial hardship may wish to discuss their circumstances with the Senior Dean before submitting a form.
Academic Grants
These grants are for help towards the purchase of approved books, materials, and other items of an academic nature. The grant may be used towards the purchase of portable or hand-held computing devices, computer software or memory/hard-disk up-grades. Other items will be considered on a case-by-case basis. The College will not reimburse the costs of phone or data services or maintenance contracts for items purchased. It would be prudent, wherever possible, to consult your tutor in advance to determine whether a projected purchase is needed for your academic work. Completed copies of the Academic Grant Info Form must be received in room 23 of the Bursary during 8th week of Hilary Term. Grants are credited on Trinity Term battels. In 2011/12, undergraduates may claim a maximum grant of £248.
Special Grants
Special Grants are for help towards travel and subsistence for purposes of an academic nature, not necessarily of direct relevance to the student's course. Completed copies of the Special Grant Form must be submitted to the College Office by 5.00 pm on Friday of Week 5 in Michaelmas Term and Fridays of Weeks 0 and 5 in Hilary and Trinity Terms. Please note that retrospective applications are not accepted.
Vacation Grants
The College may, at its discretion, make grants to undergraduates for the purpose of examinations, vacation study or some College events such as helping at Open days. These grants are at the daily rate for a Grade A+ room. Vacation Grants are made for sitting a University examination or for a programme of study - normally recommended and approved by a Tutor - or for a College event on the recommendation of the Senior Dean.
Undergraduate students may apply for up to 21 days Vacation Grant for approved study purposes during each year of their course. Unused days from a year may be carried forward until the end of Trinity full term of the last year of your course. Grants awarded for days on which the student is taking University exams or required to stay in Oxford for the purpose of doing so, or special College purposes, do not count against this quota.
If you are living in College, your application for a Vacation Grant should be made when you apply for Vacation Residence. If you are living out of College but in approved accommodation then you can still apply for Vacation Grant using the same form.
The College pays grants of up to £250 per year to cover the costs incurred by students through membership of university representative team squads. Claims are made on a Blues Squad form which after completion should be accompanied by receipts, countersigned by an official of the relevant university sports club, and submitted to the Sports Officer, Professor Zoltán Molnár.
Mapleton-Bree Prize for work in the Creative Arts
The College will offer a prize of up to £300, which may be shared if deemed appropriate by the judges, for original work in any branch of creative art (drawing, painting, sculpture, poetry, music, photography, etc.). If there is no entry of adequate standard there will be no award.
All junior members, whether graduates or undergraduates, may compete and the entries will be judged by a Committee consisting of both junior members and senior members of the College. Competitors should send in one example of work done during the previous twelve months. Entries are considered in Trinity Term each year and should be sent to the President's Secretary not later than the end of the third week of Trinity Term.
Alister Sutherland Award
This award is for a journey in the high mountains. Applications are invited for this award which has been instituted as a result of a generous gift from Dr Gillian Sutherland in memory of Alister Sutherland, distinguished economist, who read Politics, Philosophy and Economics at St John's. The award, up to £350, will be made annually to an undergraduate or graduate member of St John's who presents the most imaginative and best planned proposal for a journey in the high mountains, preferably (but not necessarily) in mountainous regions where the summits exceed 3000 metres in height. The purpose is to encourage the discovery and the enjoyment of the high mountains.
Applications are considered in Hilary Term each year and should be sent to the President's Secretary not later than the end of the third week of Hilary Term.
Hans Michael Caspari UN Travel Grant
This grant is for studies in the field of International Relations. It was established through the generous gift of the late Professor Sir Fritz Caspari and his wife, in memory of their eldest son Hans Michael, who like his father and brother, attended St John's. The award, of up to £700, will be made annually to an undergraduate or graduate member of St John's to assist them to travel to Bonn, New York, Geneva, Vienna or one of the other seats of the UN or more generally to the seats of other international organizations, in order to further their study of International Relations.
Applications should be made to the College Office by Friday of 1st Week of Hilary Term and will be awarded in time for travel during the Easter or Long Vacations.
Burke Knapp Travel Scholarship Fund
This scholarship is for students in pursuit of development issues in the Third World/Emerging Economies. Applications are invited for this travel fund, which has been established through the generous gift of the late Mr Joseph Burke Knapp, Honorary Fellow of St John's College. The award, of up to £700, will be made annually to an undergraduate or graduate member of St John's to cover travel and related expenses in pursuit of development issues in the Third World/Emerging Economies. Applications should be made to the College Office by Friday of 1st Week of Hilary Term and will be awarded in time for travel during the Easter or Long Vacations.
