Battels and Fees
We use the traditional term 'Battels' for College bills covering domestic and other charges that are the student's personal responsibility and that are not included in approved course fees. Your battels bills are issued at the beginning of each term.
Grants and Bursaries
We provide a huge range of bursaries, grants and prizes that may benefit you as an undergraduate and graduate student. If one or more of these would help you with your personal or study circumstances, we encourage you to apply.
What’s on offer?
The College has an extensive range of bursaries and grants for current students.
If your personal or study circumstances would benefit, we encourage you to apply.
When can I apply?
The window for most applications opens at the start of each term and the deadline is noon on Wednesday of Week Two. You can only apply for extra-curricular grants in Hilary Term. You can apply for financial assistance outside the normal application window.
Who decides?
Your application will be considered by the Support and Travel Grants Committee, which meets in Week Four of each term, and comprises the Senior Tutor, the Dean, the Tutor for Graduates, the Bursar and the Accountant.
How do I apply?
You can apply online for most grants, bursaries and prizes. Sometimes you may only need to provide receipts to the Accounts office. For some grants, there are PDF application forms that you can download. Check out our latest guide to applying for grants.
Available grants, bursaries and prizes
- Travel for Research & Study Grants
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- Ranging from £50 to £1000
- Covers travel to visit libraries and archives, fieldwork, clinical medical electives and overseas placements, and attending relevant conferences.
- Must be a definite connection with the course of study.
- If travelling to mainland Europe, you’re encouraged to take the train rather than fly.
- Specific grants also available for internships in media and law.
- Applications open termly. The form is available from Monday morning of Week -1 to noon on Wednesday of Week 2 in Hilary term.
- Vacation Study Residence Grants
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- Support for you as an undergraduate to stay in College during a vacation period where there is a legitimate academic-related reason (including personal issues) that means you can’t study at home.
- Grant contributes towards the additional cost of accommodation.
- Normally for maximum of 28 nights unless there are exceptional welfare reasons.
- Priority for students in the year of their major final examinations.
- Applications open termly. The form is available from Monday morning of Week -1 to noon on Wednesday of Week 2 termly.
- Financial Assistance
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- Modest financial assistance may be provided to support unforeseeable circumstances which are otherwise insurmountable by other means.
- Applications for funding for financial assistance may be made by undergraduate or graduate students.
- Applications can be made at any time.
- Completed application forms should be sent to the Bursar who will review your case and may arrange a meeting to discuss your needs.
Apply for financial assistance grants
Other options
Funding from the University
Apply for funding from the University
Funding from St Hilda’s JCR
JCR financial support fund application form
Care Leaver and Estranged student bursary
If you’re studying without the support or approval of a family network, check out the University’s Care Leaver and Estranged student bursary which can provide up to £1,500 per year.
- Extra-curricular Grants
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- Help for students to pay for sports and other extra-curricular activities from the DD White Fund.
- Awards are normally up to £50.
- Applications open once a year. The form is available from Monday morning of Week -1 to noon on Wednesday of Week 2 in Hilary term.
- Book Grants
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- For first-year undergraduates and graduate students in the first year of a postgraduate taught course.
- Support to purchase course books up to a maximum value of £60.
- Eligible students may apply only once during their first year and the application may be made in any term of their first year.
- Language Courses
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- £50 per year for a fast-track language course at the Oxford University Language Centre.
- Payment is made when the course is completed.
- Students must provide a rationale related to their academic work.
- Reimbursement forms available from the Oxford University Language Centre.
- Oxford Bursary Holders
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- The Adams Bursary (£1,000) is for final-year Oxford Bursary holders studying at St Hilda’s and St John’s in financial need.
- Eligible students are contacted directly by Student Finance.
- Finalists from St Hilda's who are not awarded the Adams Bursary are automatically considered for College-held hardship bursaries.
Subject Specific Grants for
Undergraduates
If you are an undergraduate at St Hilda’s studying one of the relevant subjects, you are encouraged to apply.
- History: Beryl Smalley Fund
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- To assist undergraduates reading history with travel in connection with medieval studies
- Also available to undergraduates reading a joint school including history
- Apply through the History Tutors
- History: The Morgan Fund
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History - The Morgan Fund
- Prizes and travel bursaries for undergraduate and graduate students who are studying history.
- Applications open termly. The form is available from Monday morning of Week -1 to noon on Wednesday of Week 2.
- Classics: Christina Keith and Mary Burn Fund
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- Grants are conventionally made to classicists (including those in joint schools) for travel relevant to their studies.
- The donor wished it to be used for a student “most likely to profit thereby”.
- Managed by the Principal
- Apply through the Classics tutors
- English: Rosalind Jane Bairstow Bursary
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- Awarded annually to assist an undergraduate reading English with a year's graduate study.
- Also available to undergraduates reading a joint school including English
- Applications are accepted from eligible final-year undergraduates
- Scholarship should be taken up in the academic year immediately following completion of the undergraduate course.
Subject Specific Grants for
Graduates
If you are a graduate student at St Hilda's, you are encouraged to apply for subject-specific grants and bursaries.
- Medicine: The Jenny Tyrrell Fund
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- Provides £500 for Clinical Medicine students' electives and travel funding.
- Applications for the elective should be made on the College Travel for Research Study Grant
- The form is open from Monday of Week 1 to noon on Wednesday of Week 2 each term).
- Medieval Studies: The David Wulstan Fund
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- For graduate students reading for a postgraduate degree in any subject in the field of medieval studies.
- Funds costs relating to research purposes up to £800, such as travel to visit libraries or archives or to participate in a conference, for example giving a poster or paper presentation.
- The form is open from Monday of Week 1 to noon on Wednesday of Week 2 each term).
- Humanities: The Kojo Minta fund
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- For graduate students in the Humanities to complete research and undertake travel to support their studies.
- Currently awards two grants of up to £500 each Hilary term
- Recipients are required to write a short report detailing how the funds were used. You can see some examples of previous students' reports by clicking on these links.
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Prizes and Bursaries for
Post-Graduation
After graduating at St Hilda’s, you can apply for prizes and bursaries.
- History: The Hildegard Prize
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- Awarded to a History, or History and Joint Schools, student of St Hilda's College to assist with postgraduate research or to participate in a research programme, internship, or training that will further their development as an historian.
- Candidates must be either current undergraduate or graduate students of St Hilda's or have graduated from the College within the last three years.
- Must demonstrate outstanding academic excellence and potential.
- Award value £1500.
- To apply, provide a proposal of up to 500 words stating the purpose for which the Prize will be used.
Submit your proposal to the Academic Office at St Hilda’s, along with a CV, and an application form. Deadline: Late August
- Teach First Bursaries
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- If you join the Teach First leadership development programmes, you will automatically qualify for a £500 bursary from St Hilda’s College.
- Teach First is an influential charity that delivers far-reaching social and economic change by addressing educational disadvantage.
- They seek high-calibre, highly motivated graduates for leadership development programmes focusing on the achievements and aspirations of pupils and their access to further opportunities in education and beyond.
- The Teach First Leadership Development Programme combines teacher training and a Post Graduate Certificate in Education with one-to-one coaching and the opportunity to study for a Masters qualification in the second year.
- If you accept the bursary, the College will expect you to engage with its outreach activity to attract the brightest pupils, regardless of their background, to apply to St Hilda’s.