Certain students on medicine or dentistry courses are eligible for the Scottish Government Health Department bursary. You will receive support under the same arrangements as for other undergraduate students for your first four years of study. This will be help towards living-cost support in the form of a student loan, supplementary grants and tuition fees.
Scottish Government Health Department Bursary
In the fifth and later years of your medicine/dentistry degree the support you will receive will be the same as those doing an Allied Health Profession degree. This will be an income-assessed Scottish Government Health Department Bursary , supplementary grants and free tuition. You will also have access to a non income-assessed student loan that you will repay on an income contingent basis.
NHS Dental Bursary Scheme
If you are studying a Dentistry (BDS) degree at Aberdeen (from 2008-2009), Dundee or Glasgow University, you may also be eligible to apply under the NHS dental bursary scheme .
Joint programme (St Andrews/Manchester/Keele)
If you start your medicine degree at St Andrew's University before 2006-2007 and transfer to Manchester or Keele University without a break in study to do your clinical years, we will income assess your tuition fees in your first year at Manchester or Keele. This means, depending on the level of your family's income, we may pay all, some or none of your tuition fees. If you started your medicine degree at St Andrews in 2006-2007 or later and transfer to Manchester or Keele to do your clinical years, you will be liable to pay fees of up to £3,145 in your first year at Manchester or Keele. You can ask us for a student loan for tuition fees to pay all or some of your fees. Please contact us if you need any more information.