We are grateful for the kind and generous support of our partners in enabling us to deliver life-changing opportunities for students, and ground-breaking research and educational projects.

Alumni-funded studentships

Our alumni support BU in so many ways. Current financial support programmes, funded by our graduates, include:

  • Grants to support final-year students who are also single parents
  • A hardship fund for students on tourism programmes
  • A placement opportunity fund for students on tourism programmes.

AFC Bournemouth Careers in Sport Studentships

As an extension of our partnership with Premiership football club, AFC Bournemouth, two students from low-income backgrounds studying degrees in sport, are benefitting from funding and wraparound career support.

Aziz Foundation grants for Muslim students

We have partnered with the Aziz Foundation to provide Muslim students enrolling on selected postgraduate courses with funding to cover their tuition fees. We have committed to supporting up to three students per year through this partnership, which also includes great opportunities for mentoring and development.

ESET Women in Cyber Studentship

We are partnering with digital security company ESET to provide three female students enrolling on an undergraduate programme in cyber security with a £5k studentship. This is part of ESET’s work to attract more women to train for and join the cyber industry.

ICAEW Foundation Bursary

One finance and accounting student is benefiting from financial support across the three years of their degree programme, with funding provided by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.

OpenBright Foundation Grants

OpenBright provides funding to support women to explore new ideas and innovative research. The charity offers small grants to help female students develop university-level research projects in computing and IT-related subjects. As a university partner, BU’s students are eligible to apply for funding each year.

Santander Universities

BU’s partnership with Santander Universities began in 2009 and, since then, more than £1m in funding has been given to support projects from internships to international travel and student hardship.

Find out more about the partnership

The Annette D’Abreo studentship

Annette D’Abreo is the Co-Founder and Managing Director of global marketing business Ceuta Healthcare, an IQVIA company, which has its headquarters in Bournemouth. Annette is a longstanding supporter of education and outreach, having served as a Board Member at Bournemouth University and as a current Trustee with Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra.

This studentship will provide one student with a £5,000-a year grant across the three years of their undergraduate degree in Business and Marketing together with wraparound career support including opportunities for placements and mentoring. It is designed to provide financial and career support to students from disadvantaged backgrounds in the UK.

The Gittins Family Charitable Trust Bursary

The bursary provided by The Gittens Family Charitable Trust, is supporting six first- year students studying degree courses in Nursing, Physiotherapy and Mechanical Engineering, with a grant of £1,000 a year for three years, helping to support greater diversity within the industry and those who might otherwise find themselves in financial difficulty while studying .

Thriplow Charitable Trust

Funding from the Thriplow Charitable Trust is enabling us to provide final-year students, who are estranged from family networks, with grants to help them make the transition from education to employment.