Scottish students

Household income

Student Awards Agency for Scotland only offers financial support for household incomes up to £34,000. If your household income is between £34,000 and £62,215, let us know and we will request SAAS to do the assessment as an exception. If you are a medicine or veterinary student, you can find more information on the Clinical medics and vets page. For Scottish students, the Student Awards Agency Scotland is a very useful website for support and funding.

Pension contributions

As a Scottish student your bursary entitlement may be calculated by Student Awards Agency for Scotland as comparatively lower than other UK students. This is because they do not deduct pension contributions from household income when calculating student finance eligibility. We compensate any student who has been affected by this by awarding the missing amount of Bursary separately.

Apply for a Bursary top-up

Every year, please send evidence of each parent’s pension contributions made in the previous tax year, so that we can check if you have missed out on any bursary and award it to you. This could be wage slips that show pension contributions, a statement from their pension scheme provider, or any other official documentation that shows the value of pension contributions either of them made.

If you've already completed some years of your course, send in evidence for all previous years, back to the academic year 2016 to 2017. We will award you the top up for all your previous years.

Send your evidence with a brief note explaining that you wish to be considered for the pension related bursary top-up by email or post. We’ll get in touch to let you know we’ve received it and to tell you how long it will take to process. We will then let you know the result and how we calculated it. Email cambridge.bursary@admin.cam.ac.uk