Financial support

ASE offers a number of modest scholarships and assistantships which can help reduce the cost of attending the Programme.

To apply for a scholarship, please send the following at the time of applying:

1. A detailed one to two-page letter of application for each scholarship you would like to be considered for. For example, if you are applying for an ASE Alumni Scholarship, the Mike Ruiz Scholarship, and the Don Nunes Memorial Scholarship, you should write three letters of application. Please, check our Application Letters guidance page for more details.

2. Your financial aid statement, detailing current awards. Please indicate clearly which awards are need-based and which are merit-based.

Scholarships

ASE Alumni Scholarship

Thanks to the generous support of the ASE alumni community, ASE is able to offer at least one scholarship per semester to a student or students with proven financial need. The recipient(s) may be asked to write occasional updates on their ASE experience to be shared with the alumni community.

• Available to: Semester Students and Summer School Students

• Award: Decided each semester on a case-by-case basis (up to £1000)

The Ann Nunes Scholarship for Educators

In honour of Ann Nunes, ASE’s second Director.

The Ann Nunes Scholarship for Educators is available to a student in the ASE Education Programme.

• Available to: Semester Students and Summer School Students

• Award Semester: £500

• Award Summer: £250

The Don Nunes Memorial Scholarship

In memory of ASE founder, Don Nunes, who believed passionately that ASE should be accessible to as ethnically diverse a group of students as possible.

The Don Nunes Memorial Scholarship is available to a student from an under-represented population, according to financial need.

• Available to: Semester Students and Summer School Students

• Award Semester: £1000

• Award Summer: £500

If you are interested in the Don Nunes Memorial Scholarship and would like to receive further information, please email admin@asebath.org.

The Mike Ruiz Scholarship

Mike Ruiz is an alum of the programme, who studied in Bath in the Spring of 1998. He has generously endowed a needs-based scholarship to help make studying abroad more accessible to the LGBTQ+ community.

The Mike Ruiz Scholarship is available to a student from the LGBTQ+ community, according to need.

• Available to: Semester Students and Summer School Students

• Award Semester: £500

• Award Summer: £500

The Mechem-Arnush Scholarship

Generously endowed by Leslie Mechem and Michael Arnush, emeritus professors of Classics at Skidmore College and long-standing friends of ASE. They team-taught the first The Romans in Britain course in the summer of 2002, and Michael served for many years on the ASE Advisory Council.

This needs-based scholarship is available to a summer student choosing to take The Romans in Britain as one of their seminar courses.

• Available to: Summer School Students

• Award: £500

The Siouxsie Easter Scholarship

In honour of Siouxsie Easter, long-time professor of theatre at Wells College, NY. Siouxsie helped launch ASE’s Theatre Summer School and designed many of ASE’s semester offerings for theatre students.

This scholarship is available to a student studying theatre-related courses.

• Available to: Semester Students and Theatre Summer School Students

• Award Semester: £500

• Award Summer: £250

ASE Need-based Financial Support

The programme offers financial support to students who can demonstrate significant financial need, up to a maximum value of £1000 per student per semester. Pell-eligible students are particularly encouraged to apply. No letter of application is needed, but please provide your financial aid statement, detailing current awards. Please indicate clearly which awards are need-based and which are merit-based.

Assistantships

ASE offers semester visa students the chance to apply for an Assistantship to help offset this additional cost. Each semester, ASE appoints up to four students to assist in the running of the programme. Each assistant receives an award totalling £500 over 15 weeks.

• ASE General Programme Assistant
• Library Assistant
• Media Assistant
• Social and Cultural Assistant

A visa is required to apply for all of these positions.