The Student Awards Agency Scotland (SAAS) provides tuition fee support for eligible Scottish students studying in Scotland.
Check eligibility on their website: www.saas.gov.uk.
SAAS also offers bursaries and loans for living costs.
You may also want to use their very useful Step by Step funding guide
To contact them with specific enquiries, use their contact form accessible here
SAAS have made this very useful video
Many universities offer scholarships and bursaries based on academic achievement, financial need, or specific talents (e.g., sports, music). Check each university’s website under "fees and funding" for available awards.
Many universities also offer accommodation bursaries or discounts on halls of residence for students from low-income backgrounds.
Some institutions provide hardship funds to help with unexpected housing costs—check with your university’s student services.
You can find some very useful information on this dedicated page of the UCAS website, and also here
This is organised through SAAS for Scottish Students. Find information about the Disabled Students’ Allowance (DSA) scheme here
Note that universities will also offer support for students with ASN or disability. Please contact their services. Note that this will often be called 'Disability' services, even if they deal with Additional Support Needs. You should not be intimidated by this nomenclature.
Being care experienced means you will have spent time living with foster carers under local authority care, in residential care (e.g. a children’s home), looked after at home under a supervision order, or in kinship care with relatives or friends, either officially (e.g. a special guardianship order) or informally without local authority support.
Sometimes you will see the term ‘care leaver’ used. Although this has a slightly different meaning, it is often used interchangeably with ‘care experience’.
Please find the UCAS guide here
Scotland: A £9,000 Care Experienced Student Bursary, which you don’t pay back, and an optional student loan of £2,400. There is also a Summer Accommodation Grant to help with your accommodation costs during the summer period – find out more on the SAAS website.
Organisations such as The Carnegie Trust and The Robertson Trust provide grants for Scottish students, especially those from low-income backgrounds.
The Turn2us website (www.turn2us.org.uk) has a grant search tool for finding additional funding for student in Higher education here
Certain careers (e.g. medicine, law) have industry-backed funding.
Look for funding from organisations like the Law Society of Scotland , the Lawscot foundation or Royal College of Nursing.