Scholarships & Funding

UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office · United Kingdom

Full tuition for a one-year Masters in the UK, a monthly living allowance, return airfare and arrival allowances.

MASTERSDeadline: Applications usually open in August and close in early November.

Commonwealth Scholarship Commission, UK · United Kingdom

Tuition, a living stipend, airfare and allowances for Masters and PhD study in the UK, aimed at students from developing Commonwealth countries.

MASTERS, PHDDeadline: Nominating-body deadlines usually fall between October and December.

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation / University of Cambridge · United Kingdom

The full cost of studying at Cambridge: university composition fee, a maintenance allowance, airfare at the start and end of the course, and a visa and health surcharge allowance. Discretionary funds cover family, fieldwork and conference costs.

MASTERS, PHDDeadline: Applied for through the Cambridge graduate application. The deadline is the course deadline in December or early January, so the Cambridge application itself has to be ready well before then.

University of Oxford · United Kingdom

Full course fees and a grant for living costs for the duration of the course, for more than 200 new scholars a year across every Oxford department.

MASTERS, PHDDeadline: No separate application. You are considered automatically if your Oxford course application arrives by the December or January deadline for your course.

Rhodes Trust, University of Oxford · United Kingdom

University and college fees, a personal stipend, and travel to and from Oxford, for two years in the first instance and sometimes a third.

MASTERS, PHDDeadline: Applications usually open in the middle of the year and close a few months later, for study starting the following October.