Essay Competition:
Win a 100% Scholarship With Immerse Education
Take part in the Immerse Education Essay Competition for your chance to win a full or partial scholarship to our university and career preparation programmes
12th September 2024: Submission Deadline
Competition Open
Free Entry
10
full scholarships Awarded each year
10,000
entries each year
Share Your Success
Scholarship Award Certificate PDFs For Winners
What is the Essay Competition?
- The Immerse Education Essay Competition provides the opportunity for students aged 13-18 to submit essay responses to a question of their choice relating to a subject of interest. There are over twenty questions to choose from which can be found in our full Essay Competition Guide. 10 winners will receive a 100% scholarship to study with us at a world-leading university of their choosing. Outstanding runners-up also receive partial scholarships.
23rd February 2024
Competition opens
12th September 2024
Competition closes
17th October 2024
Results announced
January, July & August 2025
Programme dates
23rd February 2024
Competition opens
12th September 2024
Competition closes
17th October 2024
Results announced
January, July & August 2025
Programme dates
Who Can Apply?
- The Immerse Education Essay Competition is open to students worldwide of all nationalities. You must be aged between 13-18 during your chosen programme.
Prizes
1st Place
10 winners will receive a 100% scholarship.
Take a look at previous essay competition winners.
Runners Up
Runners Up will be awarded partial scholarships of up to 50% to study their chosen subject with Immerse. The number of runners-up will be determined by the number of entries received and the quality of the work submitted. The next category of entrants who are not runner-ups receive partial scholarships worth up to 20%.
Our Guest Judges
The Immerse Education Essay Competition provides the opportunity for students aged 13-18 to submit essay responses to a question of their choice relating to a subject of interest. There are over twenty questions to choose from which can be found in our full Essay Competition Guide. 10 winners will receive a 100% scholarship to study with us at a world-leading university of their choosing. Outstanding runners-up also receive partial scholarships.
Arnold Longboy
Arnold Longboy has worked amongst the top business schools in the world, and is currently the Executive Director of the Recruitment & Admissions Team at London Business School.
Susmita Bhattacharya
Susmita won the Winchester Writer’s Festival Memoir Prize in 2016 and her novel, The Normal State of Mind was longlisted for the Words to Screen Prize at the Mumbai Association of Moving Images (MAMI) festival in India.
Amelia Suda-Gosch
Female Future Leaders Judge, Co-CEO of Female Founders
Tom Ireland
Tom Ireland is an editor at The Biologist, an award-winning magazine of the Royal Society of Biology. He is a regular contributor to the monthly magazine BBC Science Focus and has also written for The Guardian, New Scientist, and BBC News.
Programmes Our Scholarship Can be Redeemed Against
Reviews and Winners
What do our alumni say?
I loved the little conversations we had when a question about the topic turned into explanations of the ethical, personal and economic issues that surround medicine. Overall, I found my lessons very beneficial. I know so much more about medicine and its different subsets, but also about what a career in medicine really looks like.
5/5
CHIDERA O
Immerse alumni, and scholarship winner
What do our alumni say?
I could see that the essay competition was an incredible opportunity for international students to win a scholarship purely based on merit. More importantly, after doing some more research, I realised that the process for choosing winners was incredibly fair, that everyone would get an equal chance regardless of their socio-economic background, race, nationality, gender, etc.
5/5
NOOR M
100% Scholarship Winner
What do our alumni say?
I enrolled because I wanted to expand my knowledge of physics and meet other people with the same interests as myself. Both of which I was successful in doing! My favourite aspect of the programme was the small class sizes – this helped both the tutor and students with learning and understanding the subject.
5/5
ATLAS D
Immerse alumni, and scholarship winner
What do our alumni say?
Immerse was very fun as well as useful. You were able to experience what it would be like if you studied here for university. The most beneficial part of the course was being able to see what International Relations is like, and it helped me decide what I want to study in the future.
5/5
ARIADNA M
Immerse alumni, and scholarship winner
What do our alumni say?
My school invited everyone to participate, and the further I read about Immerse Education, the more motivated I was to enter the competition. Not only did I have the chance to study a subject I love, I would also be able to expand on my essay skills since writing has always been a passion of mine.
5/5
KORNELIA K
100% Scholarship Winner
What do our alumni say?
I really wanted to go to medicine summer school this year, and so I literally was searching for summer school opportunities and Immerse is one that came up. Through this, I found out about the essay competition and I decided to submit an answer. Immerse was very helpful whilst I was writing my essay, especially with things like the referencing guide.
I’m 16, so I’ve never written an academic essay before, so it was really important that I actually knew what I was doing in the first place and it definitely helped me with that. The programme so far has been very enriching. It’s helped me understand more about medicine and made me realise that this is what I want to do in life. Meeting new friends, tutors, and the mentors, they’re all amazing. My favourite things on the programme have been the evening activities, like murder mystery night. I am so happy to be able to have seen people that are like minded, and competitive as well. I really think that the tutors and the mentors have all been very supportive of me.
5/5
Riya R
Academic Insights, Medicine
Hear From a Previous Scholarship Winner
FAQs
Who can enter the Immerse Essay Competition?
The Immerse Education Essay Competition is open to entries from young people aged 13-18 interested in all subjects, from Architecture to Medicine, Creative Writing to Film Studies. However, students aged 18 should only submit an essay if they will still be 18 when the programmes the scholarships are valid for begin.
To confirm, if participants are successful, they should be aged between 13 and 18 at the start of their programme.
This current round of the essay competition is valid for 2025 Immerse Education programmes.
What support can I expect when I register interest for the Essay Competition?
Immerse provides a full essay-writing guide which is sent to your email address once you register your interest in the competition. This guide includes a full list of essay questions, our essay specification, top tips for writing an academic essay, referencing guidance, our terms and conditions and guidance on plagiarism! Registering interest also ensures that you’re on track to submitting your essay on time, through a series of helpful reminder prompts.
To support further you can register for our webinars, which offer top tips and guidance with essay writing from our experts. You are also welcome to explore our creative writing resources.
Why should I enter the Immerse Education Essay Competition?
Funded scholarship to study abroad: Our essay competition offers students like you the chance to win a full or partial scholarship to one of our Online Programmes or residential programmes in locations such as Oxford, Cambridge, Sydney, London and more.
Ongoing support from Immerse while you write: Full support from our team as you write your essay, with free guides and top tips to help you along the way. Sign up to receive our full Essay competition Guide and free tips and tricks as you write. You can also follow us on Instagram and Tik Tok to get more useful essay writing tips.
Demonstrate what you know: The competition is a chance for you to demonstrate your content knowledge by answering advanced university-style questions.
Build your skills and knowledge: The opportunity to apply and advance your essay writing skills. You will likely learn something new in the process!
Develop your self-discipline: A chance to strengthen your self-discipline as you commit to a challenging project and complete it from start to finish.
If I win a scholarship, which location can I use it for?
If you win a scholarship via the Essay Competition 2024/2025 you can use it toward any residential course in any of our locations. Use your scholarship to enrol on one of our renowned online programmes* or enriching in-person/residential summer school programmes in cultural melting pots such as Cambridge, Oxford, London or Sydney and more.
* Essay competition schorlaships cannot be redeemed against online Intensive programmes.
Do I need to pay or enrol onto a programme to be able to enter the competition?
No, there is no entry fee and you do not need to have already enrolled onto any of our programmes to take part in the essay competition.
When is the deadline for the Essay Competition?
The deadline for all essay entries for the last round of the competition is 4th January 2024. The next deadline will most likely be on 12th September 2024.
Register to receive free Essay Competition guidance
The Immerse Education Essay Competition provides the opportunity for students aged 13-18 to submit essay responses to a pre-set question relating to their chosen subject. Register interest to receive your guide with the comprehensive list of questions including:
- – Essay Specifications
- – Top Tips for Writing an Academic Essay
- – Referencing Guidance