We are pleased to announce that the 2018/2019 Chevening Scholarships are open. This is a good opportunity to pursue your studies in the United Kingdom.
These scholarships are awarded to outstanding professionals from your country and beyond to pursue a one-year master’s degree in any subject at any UK university.
Scholarship Value: Fully-Funded
Number of Scholarship: 1,500
Scholarship Type: Masters
Courses: Applicants will need to select three different master's courses, these can be three different courses at the same institution or the same-titled course but at three different universities in UK. You should choose your field of study carefully and select courses which reflect your current or future career goals. To be awarded a scholarship, you must get an unconditional offer for one of your course choices by 12 July 2018. Choose your three courses carefully as you won't be able to change them after submitting your application.
Who Can Apply?: To be eligible for a Chevening Award you must:
- Be a citizen of a Chevening-eligible country
- Return to your country of citizenship for a minimum of two years after your award has ended
- Have an undergraduate degree that will enable you to gain entry onto a postgraduate programme at a UK university. This is typically equivalent to an upper second-class 2:1 honours degree in the UK.
- Have at least two years’ work experience (this may be up to five years for fellowship programmes, so please refer to your country page for further details)
- Apply to three different eligible UK university courses and have received an unconditional offer from one of these choices by 12 July 2018
- Meet the Chevening English language requirement by 12 July 2018.
Chevening accepts English language tests from five providers:
Academic IELTS
Pearson PTE Academic
TOEFL iBT
Cambridge English: Advanced (CEA)
Trinity ISE II (B2)
The English language test must be taken from one of these providers on or after 1 October 2015. If you do not already have an existing eligible test certificate, it is your responsibility to ensure that you have booked a test date so that you can obtain the required results.
Application Process Interested and qualified candidates are to visit the official application page and navigate to your country's application centre in order to start your application.
In order to submit your Chevening Scholarship application, it is essential that you have the following ready:
- Valid passport/national ID card
- University transcripts and degree certificates (undergraduate, postgraduate)
- Three different UK master's course choices
You may also wish to submit the following optional documents if you already meet the requirements. You can submit your initial application without these documents, but you will have to upload them to your application by 12 July 2018:
-English language test results
-UK master's university offer
Only documents in PDF format can be uploaded to the online application system, and documents cannot be over 5MB in size.
For more information, visit the Official scholarship webpage.