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Surrey students can receive financial support to enable access to a wide range of activities, including student exchanges, professional training year experiences abroad, postgraduate research placements, health sciences placements, veterinary EMS placements, summer programmes, recent graduate internships, and much more. International mobility grants and scholarships are available as well as financial support from Student Finance.
If eligible, you will be considered for a Turing Scheme Grant when you register for an international programme with us.
Turing Scheme
The Turing Scheme is the UK government’s global programme to study and work abroad. The scheme provides funding for international opportunities in education and training across the world. Through the Turing Scheme, the University of Surrey will provide students at all levels of study with grant funding to take up study exchanges and work placements abroad of between 28 days to 12-months in the academic year, from 1 September to 31 August. The Turing Scheme provides grants which do not need to be paid back by students.
The University of Surrey has been successful in being awarded Turing funding for the fourth consecutive year for 2024/25.
Please note there have been some policy changes for the Turing 2024/25 project, which may impact how much funding students are entitled to for their trip. Please carefully read all the information below, particularly paying close attention to which project year you'll be funded from.
Turing Scheme 24/25
Cost of living grant
Through the Turing Scheme, the University of Surrey will provide students at all levels of study with a cost of living grant to take up study exchanges, work placements and summer programmes abroad of between 28 days to 12-months in the Turing project year, from 1 September 2024 to 31 August 2025.
Remote studying/working is not eligible for funding.
Additional support for students with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) is available. Participants with SEND can claim extra funding for costs directly related to their additional needs that are not funded through DSA.
Additional Turing funding for disadvantaged students
Eligibility for additional financial support from the Turing Scheme for disadvantaged students is subject to change by the UK Government Department for Education who administer the Turing Scheme.
Any undergraduate, UK domiciled students meeting the following criteria are eligible for additional funding under the Turing 2024/25 project:
Participants with an annual household income of £25,000 or less as verified through Student Loan Company records.
Participants receiving Universal Credit or income-related benefits because they are financially supporting themselves or financially supporting themselves and someone who is dependent on them and living with them, such as a child or partner
Care leavers and participants who are care experienced. This refers to anyone who has been or is currently in care or from a looked after background at any stage of their life, no matter how short, including adopted children who were previously looked after or those who access the Care Experienced Bursary in Scotland
Participants who have caring responsibilities. A carer is anyone who has a commitment to providing unpaid care to a family member or friend who could not cope without their support
Estranged participants. A participant is estranged if the participant has had no contact with their biological/adoptive parents) for 12 months or more, or their relationship with their parents has broken down within the last 12 months and they do not expect this to change in the near future
Refugees and asylum seekers
Students from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds
Students from a Gypsy, Roma, Traveller, Showfolk and Boater community
Students from an area of low participation in HE (POLAR4) Quintile 1 or an area with a high Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) Quintile 1 area
Students with a disability
Disadvantaged students will receive an additional uplift to their cost of living grant, as well as a Travel Grant to support with the cost of one return journey and 'Readiness to Travel Funding' to cover certain costs including:
New passport
Visa application fees and reasonable associated costs such as translated documents and police certificates
The University of Surrey must bid for Turing Scheme funding each year in spring 2025. We do not find out the outcome of our bid until summer 2025.
How do I get a Turing Scheme Grant?
Study
When you are made an offer for a place on a study exchange with one of our partner universities, you are automatically considered for a grant, and do not need to make an additional application for the Turing Scheme Grant.
Work
Once you have secured a work placement you need to register your placement through our work portal on MoveOn completing the placement form. By registering your placement on MoveON, you will be automatically considered for a grant, and you will not need to make an additional application for the Turing Scheme Grant. Students who have registered placements with the International Engagement Office for the academic year 2024/25 will be contacted by the IEO regarding the Turing Scheme and being awarded funding.
What is the Turing Scheme?
Study exchange scholarships
Forever Surrey Abroad Award
The Forever Surrey Abroad Award will support students from disadvantaged backgrounds participating in a study exchange or work placement abroad to have transformative experiences overseas as part of their Surrey degree.
Students from the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences participating in a study exchange, work placement or summer opportunity abroad in summer 2025 or during the 2025/26 academic year are invited to apply for this funding.
£400 for students participating in a summer programme
Eligibility criteria:
The prize is available to all students in the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences.
Eligible activities include: attending a Summer School with an engineering focus; a semester or year on study exchange at a partner university; undertaking a work placement internationally during the Professional Training Year; or doing a period of volunteering or research abroad with an engineering focus.
The period abroad must be undertaken while the student is still registered as a Surrey student.
Funding will be awarded as a priority to students who meet the eligibility criteria, in order of preference:
Students with family income less than £40,000 (verified through student finance)
Disadvantaged students meeting Widening Participation criteria
Students participating in their first International Mobility experience while studying at Surrey
Study exchange, summer programmes and research placements at partner institutions
Terms and conditions:
Students are expected to share their experience abroad with the University and support with international mobility activities during their time abroad and on their return to Surrey, including promotional activities and supporting students. Please see the Terms and Conditions section for more information.
For a student to be eligible for the ‘Margaret Westwood Travel Bursary’ (valued at £500) they must be a home student preparing to undertake a semester or a full year of study either in a US or a Canadian partner university.
To qualify for this bursary, the criteria for assessment are as follows:
Financial need
Academic performance
Student’s personal statement
Cross-cultural awareness
Application process.
2025/26 Application Deadline: Tuesday 4 February 2025 23:59pm
BUTEX offers competitive scholarships for students studying abroad. The applications for 2023/24 will open in the spring and students may apply retrospectively.
The value of each scholarship is £500 and will be paid to the winners once they have arrived and registered at their host university. The scholarship is open to all undergraduate students and includes students who are also applying for an Erasmus+ or Turing award.
Further information about the scholarships and application process can be found on the BUTEX website.
Student Finance England
Tuition Fee Loan
You're entitled to receive your Tuition Fee Loan during the year or semester you study abroad.
Maintenance Loan
You're entitled to receive your Maintenance Loan during the year or semester you study abroad.
International PTY scholarships for work placements abroad academic year 2025/26:
The PTY (Professional Training Year) Support Award aims to support undergraduate Home/UK students from underrepresented and vulnerable groups, listed in the eligibility section. The award aims to ensure that students from a Widening Participation background are sufficiently financed to undertake a professional training year. The award will provide approx. £4,000 to eligible home/UK students during their professional training year. The award can be received in addition to other University scholarships or any other bursary, prize and awards if eligible. The award will be given to 12 successful applicants.
Carluccio: Apply to the Antonio Carluccio Foundation Bursary to receive £4,000 to support you through your Professional Training Year! This is for students completing a placement either in a restaurant or within the food and beverage hospitality industry.
Ebsworth: Two scholarships of £5,000 are available to UK undergraduate students within the School of Biosciences to support them in undertaking their professional training year outside the UK during 2025/26.
Millett Award: Multiple scholarship opportunities of £3,000 to help undergraduate students completing a STEM subject degree to undertake your overseas Professional Training Year.
