Summer students

Be of Black ethnicity.

To meet this criterion, you must self-identify as being from a Black heritage background, including a mixed background, for example, but not limited to: Black African, Black Caribbean, Black Other, or Mixed background that includes Black African, Black Caribbean or other Black backgrounds.

Be in receipt of enhanced maintenance support from the relevant UK student finance agency to help with living costs during study.

To meet this criterion, you must be in receipt of enhanced maintenance support as follows:

• If you are supported via the Student Loans Company for England, your household income has been assessed as £25000 or lower, and you are in receipt of full-rate maintenance loan that is granted for living away from home and studying outside London, or for living away from home and studying in London, or for living with your parents;
   
• If you are supported via Student Awards Agency for Scotland, either: (i) your household income has been assessed as £23999 or lower as a Young Student and you are in receipt of bursary (not loan) of £1125 or higher, OR (ii) your household income as an independent student has been assessed as £23999 or lower, and you are in receipt of a loan of £10,400;
   
• If you are supported via Student Finance Wales, your household income has been assessed as £25000 or lower, and you are in receipt of a grant of: £5930 (living with parents), or £6947 (living away from parental home and studying outside London), or £8643 (living away from parental home and studying in London);
   
• If you are supported via Student Finance Northern Ireland, you have been assessed as eligible for a maintenance grant of £2201 or higher (or a special support grant) and a maintenance loan of £6596 or higher (living away from home and studying outside London), £9855 (living away from home and studying in London) or £4764 (living at parents’ home).
   
• If you are made an offer for the programme, it will be on condition of you providing evidence that you are in receipt of the relevant student finance agency support outlined above, during the 2025-26 academic year.

Be studying at a university on the Crick’s Summer Student Training Programme priority institutions list.

To meet this criterion, you must be studying at a university on our priority institutions list. These universities are not in the Russell Group, or have an overall 2021 Research Excellence Framework GPA score* below 3.27 (the lowest score within the Russell Group).

If your institution is on this list, it means that you meet this criterion and are eligible for the programme. If your institution is not on this list, it means that you do not meet this criterion, but you may be eligible for the programme if you meet one (or both) of the other two eligibility criteria.

*REF GPA scores taken from the Times Higher Education grade point average (GPA) calculation of each institution's overall quality profile.

Abertay University (formerly University of Abertay Dundee)
Aberystwyth University (Prifysgol Aberystwyth)
Anglia Ruskin University
Anglia Ruskin University School of Medicine 
Aston University
Aston University Medical School 
Bangor University (Prifysgol Bangor)
Bath Spa University
Birkbeck, University of London
Birmingham City University
Bournemouth University
Brighton & Sussex Medical School
Brunel University London
Brunel University London, Brunel Medical School 
Buckinghamshire New University
Canterbury Christ Church University
Cardiff Metropolitan University (Prifysgol Metropolitan Caerdydd)
City University London
Coventry University
De Montfort University
Edge Hill University
Edge Hill University Medical School 
Edinburgh Napier University
Glasgow Caledonian University
Goldsmiths, University of London
Harper Adams University
Heriot-Watt University
Hull York Medical School 
Keele University
Keele University School of Medicine 
Kent & Medway Medical School
Kingston University
Leeds Beckett University (formerly Leeds Metropolitan University)
Leeds Trinity University
Liverpool Hope University
Liverpool John Moores University
London Metropolitan University
London South Bank University
Manchester Metropolitan University
Middlesex University
Northumbria University Newcastle
Nottingham Trent University
Open University, The
Oxford Brookes University
Plymouth University
Plymouth University Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry 
Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh
Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen
Sheffield Hallam University
Southampton Solent University
St George's, University of London 
Staffordshire University
Swansea University (Prifysgol Abertawe)
Swansea University Medical School 
Teesside University
Ulster University, School of Medicine 
University College Birmingham
University of Aberdeen
University of Aberdeen School of Medicine and Dentistry 
University of Bedfordshire
University of Bolton
University of Bradford
University of Brighton
University of Buckingham
University of Buckingham Medical School
University of Central Lancashire
University of Central Lancashire School of Medicine 
University of Chester
University of Chester Medical School
University of Chichester
University of Cumbria
University of Derby
University of Dundee
University of Dundee School of Medicine 
University of East London
University of Essex
University of Gloucestershire
University of Greenwich
University of Hertfordshire
University of Huddersfield
University of Hull
University of Kent
University of Lincoln
University of Northampton
University of Nottingham - Lincoln Medical School 
University of Portsmouth
University of Reading
University of Roehampton
University of Salford
University of South Wales (Prifysgol De Cymru)
University of St Mark and St John, Plymouth
University of Stirling
University of Suffolk
University of Sunderland
University of Sunderland School of Medicine 
University of the Highlands and Islands
University of the West of England, Bristol
University of the West of Scotland
University of Ulster
University of Wales (Prifysgol Cymru)
University of Wales Trinity Saint David (Prifysgol Cymru Y Drindod Dewi Sant)
University of West London
University of Westminster
University of Winchester
University of Wolverhampton
University of Worcester
Wrexham Glyndŵr University (Prifysgol Glyndŵr)
York St John University