UEA+Sport Individual Scholarship

Undergraduate, Postgraduate and Study Abroad

UEA+Sport Individual Scholarship

If you are an aspiring student-athlete - either prospectively or currently studying at UEA - we want to support you in your journey to achieve your highest potential both academically and on the sporting field.

UEA+Sport offers a wide range of facilities and support for our top athletes and sporting programmes, ensuring you have the best possible opportunities to maximise your potential whilst studying at UEA. Led by a strong team of dedicated and innovative coaching staff, and supported by a range of highly skilled practitioners, we offer you a high-quality level of support to enable you to succeed. Recent scholars have been successful in BUCS, Local, Regional and National competitions with many also attaining International success. This is achieved by ensuring each athlete can thrive in their own environment.

Our holistic and athlete-centred approach to developing performance has showcased success with many athletes competing at age-group and senior World and European Championships, and the BUCS programme rising nearly 20 places in just four years - with many teams dominating the local and regional landscape in their sport. We welcome applications from para-athletes and have a track record of supporting para-athletes on both our UEA Sport Scholarship and Talented Athlete Scholarship Scheme (TASS) programmes. For more information on sport at UEA and how we can help you achieve your academic and sporting aspirations please take a look at our performance sport brochure or contact us via performance.sport@uea.ac.uk.

Our sport scholarship packages offer a range of financial and specialist support services to our student athletes and are offered at three levels: Elite, Excellence and Developing Excellence.

Scholars will benefit from:

Financial support in an individualised financial plan (Elite and Excellence only - up to £1,500 for Elite, up to £500 for Excellence)
Gym and Swim Membership (currently worth £300)
Additional free use of training facilities at the Sportspark (facility access to be determined per individual athlete and availability)
Free uea+sport membership (USM) (currently worth £55)
Access to Strength and Conditioning support
Access to physiotherapy
Discounted sports massage
Support workshops
Branded sports kit
Lifestyle support

Our current performance sports are basketball, football, netball, American football and rugby - but we also pride ourselves on accepting scholarship applications from a wide range of other sports. We want to help all athletes reach their potential whilst here with us so all applications are welcomed, with each case being reviewed against our sporting criteria (see below).

For basketball (men’s and women’s), football (men’s and women’s), rugby (men's and women's) and netball, take a look at our team scholarships.

Sports scholarships are awarded on an annual basis.

Accommodation for individual sport scholars
We want you to feel at home, so you can concentrate on your sporting performance. That’s why we offer a range of accommodation options to scholars, including early arrival dates and ‘athlete village’ blocks, where scholars are housed together. Please email performance.sport@uea.ac.uk for details.

Type of Course

Undergraduate
Postgraduate Taught
Postgraduate Research
Year Abroad

Funding Type

Cash
In-kind

Annual Value

£1,500

Course Start Date

September 2025

Criteria

UEA First Choice

School/Faculty

Faculty of Humanities
Faculty of Medicine and Health
Faculty of Science
Faculty of Social Sciences
Art, Media and American Studies
Chemistry
Computing Sciences
Economics
Education
Engineering
Environmental Sciences
Health Sciences
History
Interdisciplinary Institute for the Humanities
Law
Literature, Drama and Creative Writing
Mathematics
Medicine
Natural Sciences
Norwich Business School
Pharmacy
Physics
Politics, Philosophy Language and Communication Studies
Psychology
Social Work
Sociology
Global Development
Biological Sciences
INTO
Music
Sport

Country / Region

International
UK
EU
Europe
East Anglia
Norfolk/Suffolk
London
North East of England
Middle East
Africa
Asia
North America
South America
Australia

Further Criteria

See below for sporting criteria

Related Scholarships

UEA+Sport Team Scholarship

Application Process

The UEA individual sport scholarship applications are now closed for the 2024-25 academic year. We will reopen applications for the 2025-26 academic year towards the end of January 2025. if you have any queries about the scheme please email performance.sport@uea.ac.uk