About the fund

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The Scholarship:

Nationwide Building Society is providing SEVEN scholarships of £3,500 per year to students who will be starting an undergraduate degree related to financial services (e.g., Accounting & Finance, Business, Communications, Computing & Technology, Humanities, Law, Marketing & Management, Mathematics, Psychology, and Social Sciences) in Autumn 2024. The scholarship is to be used to support students towards their cost of living, study materials, and maintenance.

Scholars may be offered paid internship opportunities at Nationwide during the degree-course. These internships will help students gain real life, hands-on work experience.

Requirements:
To be considered for the Nationwide Building Society scholarship, applicants must:

• Have the right to work in the UK
• Meet the social mobility requirements for the programme
• This is that you have been eligible for free school meals during your school years (must have finished school after 1980)
• Be enrolling on a 3-year degree in one of the following subject areas:
• Accounting & Finance
• Business
• Communications
• Computing & Technology
• Humanities
• Law Related Degree
• Marketing & Management
• Mathematics
• Psychology
• Social Sciences
• You are not eligible for the scholarship if you or a member of your household is currently or a former Nationwide Building Society employee

How to apply:

• All applicants must complete the online application form on Blackbullion
• Shortlisted applicants will then be asked to complete an online assessment and provide a 300-word response to the prompt: “Why are you interested in a potential career in financial services?”
• Applicants who successfully complete the online assessment will be invited for interview
• If offered a scholarship, students will be required to successfully complete Nationwide’s background vetting checks

Timelines:

• Applications open: 15th April 2024
• Applications close: 3rd May 2024
• The application window may close earlier due to high demand
• Shortlisted applicants will be invited to take an online assessment. Candidates who successfully pass the online assessment will be notified and invited to a final interview stage
• Successful student notified:By 01st September 2024

Why is Nationwide offering a Scholarship:

Social mobility is the link between a person’s occupation or income and the
occupation or income of their parents. Research shows that someone’s socio- economic background (e.g. where they grew up, social class, the financial resources of their family, the type of school they attended, etc) can affect their career opportunities.

Research shows there is underrepresentation of people from working class
backgrounds in Financial Services. We believe this scholarship programme will help contribute to addressing this and give individuals who may not have
considered a career in financial services a high-quality experience and open up opportunity.

Eligibility criteria

This fund is only available to people in the categories listed below. Please do not apply if you are not in one of these.