Chevening Scholarships

Application period opens
Tuesday 5 August 2025
Application period closes
This scholarship deadline has now passed (Tuesday 7 October 2025)
Entry
2026

Chevening Scholarships enable outstanding emerging leaders from all over the world to pursue one-year Masters degrees in the UK. The Scholarships are awarded to candidates with the passion, ideas, and influence to provide the solutions and leadership needed to create a better future.

We offer standard Chevening Awards and Chevening Partner Awards. Standard Chevening Awards have no Geographical criteria (see the Chevening website). For Chevening Partner Awards, The University of St Andrews will sponsor up to ten awards for applicants from the following countries:

  • Ghana
  • Kenya
  • Malawi
  • Rwanda
  • South Africa
  • Tanzania
  • Uganda
  • Zambia

The partnership supports scholars studying all Chevening eligible programmes at the University of St Andrews.

Value of award (per year)

The Chevening Programme includes a tailored engagement programme creating opportunities for scholars to network with each other as well as alumni, the FCDO, high profile speakers and partner organisations.

Most Chevening Scholarships cover:

  • Payment of tuition fees
  • Economy travel to and from your country of residence by an approved route for you only
  • An arrival allowance
  • The cost of an entry clearance (visa) application for you only
  • A departure allowance
  • A contribution of up to £75 for TB testing, where this is required
  • A travel top up allowance
  • A monthly personal living allowance (stipend) to cover accommodation and living expenses. The monthly stipend will depend on whether you are studying inside or outside London. These rates are subject to annual review.

If selected for Chevening, your offer letter will confirm what your scholarship will entail.

Duration of award

This award is available for one year of postgraduate study.

At what stage of my course application can I apply for this scholarship?

You will need to apply for both a full-time Masters degree at St Andrews and a Chevening Scholarship. We recommend applying for your chosen courses of study before or at the same time as applying for a Chevening Scholarship.

Application restrictions

Study level

Available to students studying at:

Postgraduate

Domicile for fee status

Overseas

Schools

Available to students in the following Schools and Departments:

Art History, Biology, Chemistry, Classics, Computer Science, Divinity, Earth and Environmental Sciences, English, Film Studies, Geography and Sustainable Development, Graduate School, History, International Relations, Mathematics and Statistics, Medicine, Modern Languages, Philosophy, Physics and Astronomy, Psychology and Neuroscience, Social Anthropology, University of St Andrews Business School, International Education and Lifelong Learning Institute

Application assessment

Academic merit

Available to

Prospective students

Mode of study

Full time

Geographical criteria

No restrictions

Additional criteria

To apply for a Chevening Scholarship you must:

  • Be a citizen of a fellowship-eligible country or territory.
  • Demonstrate the potential to rise to a position of leadership and influence.
  • Demonstrate the personal, intellectual and interpersonal attributes reflecting this potential.
  • Return to your country of citizenship at the end of the period of the fellowship.
  • Have a postgraduate level qualification (or equivalent professional training or experience in a relevant area) at the time of application.
  • Meet all programme-specific fellowship eligibility requirements.
  • Not hold British or dual British citizenship.
  • Not have received UK Government scholarship funding (including Chevening) within the last five years. You will only be eligible to apply for a Chevening Fellowship after a period of five years following the completion of your first UK Government-funded scholarship.
  • Not be an employee, a former employee, or relative of an employee of His Majesty’s Government, or have been within the last two years from the opening of Chevening applications (including the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, all British Embassies/High Commissions, the Home Office, the Ministry of Defence, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, the Department for International Trade and the UKVI), the British Council, a sponsoring UK university, or a staff member of the Association of Commonwealth Universities. Individuals contracted to work on any British Council programme or project, and their relatives, are ineligible.

Further criteria apply. See the Chevening Scholarships website for full details.

How to apply

Full information about deadlines and priority subjects for countries and territories which offer Chevening Scholarships are available on the Chevening website.

When will I know the outcome?

Please see the application timeline on the Chevening website for full details.

Contact

Chevening website