Commonwealth Shared Scholarships

Commonwealth Shared Scholarships

In partnership with Commonwealth Scholarship Commission (CSC), The University of Oxford offers  between 5 and 10 Commonwealth Shared Scholarships each year, available for applicants who are nationals of (or have been granted refugee status by) and are ordinarily resident in one of the following developing Commonwealth countries, as specified by the CSC:

Antigua and Barbuda, Bangladesh, Belize, Botswana, Cameroon, Dominica, Eswatini, Fiji, Ghana, Grenada, Guyana, India, Jamaica, Kenya, Kiribati, Lesotho, Malawi, Maldives, Mauritius, Montserrat, Mozambique, Namibia, Nauru, Nigeria, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Rwanda, Samoa, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, South Africa, Sri Lanka, St Helena, St Lucia, St Vincent and the Grenadines, Tanzania, The Gambia, Tonga, Tuvalu, Uganda, Vanuatu, Zambia

Candidates must be applying for specific courses which alter each year dependant on the current focus of the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission. For 2024 entry candidates must be applying to one of the following courses:

• Master of Public Policy (MPP)
• MSc Water Science, Policy and Management
• MSc Global Health Science and Epidemiology
• MSt Diplomatic Studies
• MSc Economics for Development

The scholarship covers course fees in their entirety and provides a grant for living costs for full-time students of at least £16,164, return airfares from your home country plus a warm clothing allowance and study travel and thesis grants. Awards are made for the full duration of fee liability for the agreed course. The scholarship is jointly funded by the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office and the University.  It supports students from developing Commonwealth countries who would not otherwise be able to study in the United Kingdom.

Details of full eligibility criteria and how to apply are available on the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission's website, applications opened on Thursday 16th  November 2023

To be considered for this scholarship, you must:

1. Complete the online scholarship application form via the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission’s website by 4pm (GMT) on Thursday 14^th December, 2023.
2. Have submitted your application for graduate study by the relevant deadline for your course. 

Candidates who have not completed both of the above, will not be considered.

Selection is expected to take place between June and July 2024.