Commonwealth Scholarship
- Attendance:
- Full-time
- Available for:
- Prospective students
- Entry year:
- 2019/20
- Study level:
- Postgraduate Taught
- Postgraduate Research
No longer applicable
This scholarship is no longer available due to the deadline date passing or it applying to a previous academic year.
The scholarship may be available in future academic years, but please note this may not always be the case.
This page remains online for information purposes only.
Overview
If you are from a Commonwealth country and would like to study at postgraduate level at the University of Bradford, you may be able to apply for a scholarship under one of the UK Commonwealth Scholarship Commission schemes.
We are pleased to participate in a number of Commonwealth Scholarship Commission programmes each year, including:
- Scholarships candidates from low and middle income Commonwealth countries for Master's studies, PhD studies, and for Split-site PhD studies.
- Shared scholarships for students from developing Commonwealth countries for selected masters degrees.
- Scholarships for students from high income Commonwealth countries for PhD studies.
Eligibility
To apply for these scholarships, you must:
- Be a Commonwealth citizen, refugee, or British protected person.
- Be permanently resident in a developing Commonwealth country.
- Be available to start your academic studies in the UK by the start of the UK academic year in September/ October 2019.
- By October 2019, hold a first degree of at least upper second class (2:1) honours standard, or a second class degree and a relevant postgraduate qualification (usually a Master’s degree).
Applicable courses
- 12 months’ support towards completion of a full-time taught postgraduate qualification at an eligible UK university. The CSC funds one-year Master’s programmes only, and does not fund MBAs.
- Support towards completion of a full-time doctoral postgraduate qualification at an eligible UK university.
- All subject areas are eligible – although you should note that the CSC’s selection criteria give priority to applications that demonstrate the strongest relevance to development.
Eligible countries
- Anguilla
- Antigua & Barbuda
- Bangladesh
- Barbados
- Belize
- Bermuda
- Botswana
- Cameroon
- Cayman Islands
- Dominica
- Falkland Islands (Malvinas)
- Fiji
- Ghana
- Gibraltar
- Grenada
- Guyana
- India
- Jamaica
- Kenya
- Kiribati (The Gilbert Islands)
- Lesotho
- Malawi
- Malaysia
- Mauritius
- Montserrat
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- Nauru
- Nigeria
- Pakistan
- Papua New Guinea
- Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie and Oenno Islands
- Rwanda
- Samoa, Independent State of
- Seychelles
- Sierra Leone
- Solomon Islands
- South Africa
- Sri Lanka
- St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha
- St.Kitts and Nevis
- St.Lucia
- St.Vincent and the Grenadines
- Swaziland
- Tanzania, United Republic of
- Tonga
- Trinidad & Tobago
- Turks & Caicos Islands
- Tuvalu
- Uganda
- Vanuatu
- Zambia
How to apply
See the DFID website for details on all of these awards.