Commonwealth Master’s Scholarships 2026/2027 (Fully-funded) – YOA

Deadline: October 14, 2025

Applications are open for the Commonwealth Master’s Scholarships 2026/2027. Funded by the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), Commonwealth Master’s Scholarships allow proficient and motivated people to realize the information and expertise required for sustainable growth and are aimed toward those that couldn’t in any other case afford to study within the UK.

The company-nominated Master’s programme is one among three Master’s programmes supplied by the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission. The Commonwealth Scholarship Commission within the UK (CSC) gives the UK authorities scholarship scheme led by worldwide growth targets. It operates throughout the framework of the Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Plan (CSFP) and affords a vivid demonstration of the UK’s enduring dedication to the Commonwealth.

By attracting people with excellent expertise and identifiable potential from all backgrounds and supporting them to turn into leaders and innovators on returning to their home nations, the CSC’s work combines sustainable growth with the UK nationwide curiosity and gives alternatives for worldwide partnerships and collaboration.

Scholarship

Each scholarship gives:

• Approved airfare from the Scholar’s home nation to the UK and return on the finish of the award (the CSC won’t reimburse the price of fares for dependants, nor the price of journeys made earlier than the award is confirmed).
• Approved tuition charges: full charges are coated by settlement between the CSC and the UK college, and Scholars aren’t liable to pay for any part of the tutoring charge.
• Stipend (dwelling allowance) on the fee of £1,452 monthly, or £1,781 monthly for these at universities within the London metropolitan space (charges quoted at present ranges).
• Warm clothes allowance, the place relevant.
• Study journey grant in direction of the price of study-related journey throughout the UK or abroad.
• If a Scholar has kids and is widowed, divorced, or a single mother or father, child allowance of child allowance of £622 monthly for the primary child, and £154 monthly for the second and third child beneath the age of 16, if their kids live with them on the similar handle within the UK.

Eligibility

To be thought-about for these scholarships, candidates should:

• Be a citizen of or have been granted refugee standing by an eligible Commonwealth nation, or be a British Protected Person.
• Be completely resident in an eligible Commonwealth nation.
• Be out there to begin educational research within the UK by the beginning of the UK educational yr in September 2026.
• By September 2026, maintain a primary diploma of at the very least higher second-class (2:1) honours customary, or a decrease second-class diploma and a related postgraduate qualification (often a Master’s diploma).
• Be unable to afford to study within the UK with out this scholarship.
• Have offered all supporting documentation within the required format.

Selection Criteria

Applications will probably be thought-about in line with the next choice standards:

• Academic advantage
• Quality of analysis proposal
• Potential influence on the event of the candidate’s come nation

Application

The deadline for submitting an application is 16:00 BST (15:00 GMT) on 14 October 2025. The scholarships are for study within the UK starting in September/October 2026.

As properly as making use of to the CSC, candidates should apply to a nominator.

There are two sorts of nominator invited to take part within the Master’s scholarship programme: 

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For extra data, go to Commonwealth Master’s Scholarships.