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Merit & Potential Offer
Fees & Funding
In some exceptional circumstances, the department is able to use their discretion and make a 'merit and potential offer' to applicants who demonstrate outstanding academic merit (usually in their personal statement) but whose predicted or achieved grades are one grade below (i.e. AAA, or equivalent for V100, V101, QV21 and AAB, or equivalent for RV92).
The University offer some scholarships for incoming students. These include, but are not limited to:
Please note these offers are only made to students who, in addition to demonstrating exceptional merit, fall into at least of of the following categories: school at or below the national average for GCSE results, low socioeconomic status, time in care. Applicants who meet the standard entry requirements but also fall into one of these categories will also be considered. There is no separate application procedure for the merit and potential offer; all qualifying applications through UCAS are considered by the admissions selectors.
Substitute Personal Statement Durham University offers the opportunity for applicants to write a substitute personal statement that would be considered instead of the standard UCAS statement. This option is available to applicants who are applying to more than one type of academic programme, i.e. an applicant applying to Durham for History but applying for History and Politics at another institution. Therefore the substitute personal statement can be tailored toward History for the programme at Durham. For details about the format the statement should take and the requirements of the statement, please go to www.dur.ac.uk/ undergraduate/study/apply/ucas/ personalstatement/substitute
Durham Grant Scheme: an automatic grant of £2000 per year for students who do not already have an undergraduate degree and whose household income in assessed by Student Finance England (or equivalents) as less than £25,000pa. More information can be found at www.durham.ac.uk/undergraduate/study/finance/ scholarships/dgs Robert Young Scholarship: provided through a generous donation from Councillor Robert Young. A scholarship of up to £30,000 for fees and maintenance for students who have been educated at a state-maintained school, college or other secondary establishment in County Durham and who can demonstrate financial need. Successful applicants must reside in one of the University's sixteen residential colleges. More information can be found at www.durham.ac.uk/ undergraduate/finance/ugscholarships/robertyoung St Nicholas Scholarship: provided by St Nicholas's Educational Trust. £2,500 per year for applicants who, at the time of the application to UCAS, live in one of the twenty-six administrative wards of Newcastle City Council. More information can be found at www.durham.ac.uk/ undergraduate/finance/ugscholarships/stnicholas For further details on fees, funding, grants and scholarships administered by the University, list of external scholarships, and links to databases to search for funding, please go to www.durham.ac. uk/undergraduate/study/finance