Rhodes Kenya Scholarships 2027 for Postgraduate Study at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom (Fully Funded – Opportunities For Africans

Application Deadline: 23:59 Eastern Africa Time, 27 August 2026

Applications at the moment are open for the 2027 Rhodes Kenya Scholarships. The Rhodes Scholarship is a fully-funded postgraduate award which permits gifted younger folks from round the world to study full-time at the University of Oxford. The Rhodes Scholarship is merit-based, with the goal of creating public-spirited leaders, and to advertise worldwide understanding and peace via a world neighborhood of Scholars. 

The Rhodes Scholarship programme is the oldest (established 1902), and maybe the most prestigious, worldwide scholarship in the world.

The choice standards for the scholarship are as follows:

• Academic excellence: the University of Oxford is one of the best graduate environments in the world and candidates should, at minimal, meet the entry necessities of their chosen course. Most profitable candidates will exceed these minimums. (candidates could have a higher probability of profitable admission if they’ve a First Class Honours or GPA of 3.70/4.00 or greater, or equal).
• Energy to make use of their abilities to the full: as demonstrated by success in areas comparable to sports activities, music, debate, dance, theatre, and inventive pursuits, together with the place teamwork is concerned
• The Virtues: fact, braveness, devotion to responsibility, sympathy for and safety of the weak, kindliness, unselfishness and fellowship.
• Moral pressure of character and instincts to guide, and to take an curiosity of their fellow human beings.

Eligibility Criteria

• Nationality/citizenship: You have to be a citizen of Kenya. Applications from refugees/asylum seekers presently residing in Kenya may also be thought-about on this constituency.
• Residency: You should have been resident in Kenya for at least 5 of the final ten years.
• Age: You should meet both of the beneath standards:

i. You have to be aged 18-23 on 1st October 2026 (i.e. you have to have been born after 1 October 2002 and earlier than 2 October 2008).
OR (for older candidates who accomplished their first undergraduate diploma later than common)
ii. You have to be beneath the age of 27 on 1st October 2026 (i.e. have been born after 1 October 1999) AND you have to even have accomplished your first undergraduate diploma on or after 1 October 2025*.

• A college’s coverage determines the date of completion of tutorial requirement for a level and this can be completely different from when a level is taken into account awarded by the college or the date of a commencement ceremony. In ambiguous circumstances, the determination of the National Secretary is remaining.
• Academic achievement: You should have accomplished, or could have accomplished, an undergraduate diploma (normally a Bachelor’s) by July 2027, and you have to have an instructional background and grade that – at a minimal – meets or exceeds the particular entry necessities of your chosen course at the University of Oxford.
  Candidates could have the next probability of profitable admission to Oxford if they’ve:
  o A First Class Honours Degree or equal, or,
  o A GPA of 3.70/4.0 or greater*

• English language proficiency: If English just isn’t your first language, you have to check that you simply meet Oxford University’s English language necessities at the greater stage.

Benefits

• The Rhodes Scholarship covers University of Oxford course charges, in addition to offering an annual stipend.
• For the 2026-27 tutorial yr, the stipend is £20,400 every year (£1,700 per 30 days) from which Scholars pay all residing bills, together with lodging. Please be aware: this isn’t adequate to cowl companions or dependents. 
  

Following choice for the Scholarship, the Rhodes Trust may also cowl: 

• The charge required to apply to study at the University of Oxford 

• Fees for a pupil visa and related International Health Surcharge (IHS), which permits worldwide college students to entry the UK’s National Health Service 

• Two economic system class flights to and from the UK, for the starting and finish of research in Oxford. 

On arrival in Oxford, Scholars obtain a settling in allowance, and Scholars who transition to a second course of study in Oxford will obtain assista

How to Apply

• To apply for the Rhodes Scholarship, you have to full and submit the on-line application kind earlier than 23:59 East Africa Time (EAT), 27 August 2026.
• You ought to apply for the Rhodes Scholarship earlier than making use of for your proposed course at the University of Oxford. Candidates chosen for the Rhodes Scholarship are then required to apply for their chosen course by way of the University of Oxford’s graduate application kind, with assist from the crew at Rhodes House.

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the Rhodes Kenya Scholarships