Rhodes West Africa Scholarships 2027 for postgraduate study at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom (Fully Funded) – Opportunities For Africans

Application Deadline: 23:59 GMT 27 August 2026

Applications are actually open for the 2027 Rhodes West Africa Scholarships. The Rhodes Scholarship is a fully-funded postgraduate award which allows 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 by a global group 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 may have a larger probability of profitable admission if they’ve a First Class Honours or GPA of 3.70/4.00 or increased, or equal).
• Energy to make use of their abilities to the full: as demonstrated by success in areas equivalent to sports activities, music, debate, dance, theatre, and creative pursuits, together with the place teamwork is concerned
• The Virtues: fact, braveness, devotion to obligation, sympathy for and safety of the weak, kindliness, unselfishness and fellowship.
• Moral drive of character and instincts to guide, and to take an curiosity of their fellow human beings.

Eligibility Requirements

• Nationality/citizenship: You should be a citizen of one of the following nations: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cabo Verde, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Côte d’Ivoire, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, Senegal, Sierra Leone, São Tomé and Principe and Togo.
• Residency: You will need to have been resident in a number of of the nations listed above for ateast 5 of the final ten years.
• Age: You should meet both of the beneath standards:
  i. You should be aged 18-24 on 1st October 2026 (i.e. you have to have been born after 1 October 2001 and earlier than 2 October 2008). OR for medical, dental, pharmaceutical, regulation and engineering college students, to mean you can full your skilled internship
  ii. You should be aged 18-25 on 1st October 2026 (i.e. you have to have been born after 1 October 2000 and earlier than 2 October 2008) OR for older candidates who accomplished their first undergraduate diploma later than regular
  iii. You should 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*.
  *we’d usually think about the date in your diploma certificates as your commencement date.
• Academic achievement: You will need to have accomplished an undergraduate diploma (normally a Bachelor’s) by the application deadline, and you have to have an instructional background and grade that could be a First Class Honours Degree or equal.
  In the case of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmacy programs, the highest classification your University awards, e.g. a Distinction can be thought-about equal to a First Class
  Honours Degree. In addition, candidates should even have achieved a distinction in at least two out of 5 essential topic areas equivalent to:
  o Medicine & surgical procedure
  o Pathology
  o Pharmacology
  o Gynaecology
  o Paediatrics
  Candidates may have a larger probability of profitable admission to Oxford if they’ve:
  o an Honours diploma (or have taken an Honours 12 months) from a University exterior of your nation or when you’ve got studied to Masters stage inside your nation (with the exception of these finding out in Nigeria and Ghana, and, for some nations, these finding out drugs)

Benefits

• The Rhodes Scholarship covers University of Oxford course charges, in addition to offering an annual stipend.
• For the 2026-27 educational 12 months, the stipend is £20,400 each year (£1,700 per thirty days) from which Scholars pay all residing bills, together with lodging. Please word: this isn’t enough to cowl companions or dependents. 
  

Following choice for the Scholarship, the Rhodes Trust will even cowl: 

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

• Fees for a scholar visa and related International Health Surcharge (IHS), which allows 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 help to cowl the charges for visa renewal and additional application for IHS. 

How to Apply

• To apply for the Rhodes Scholarship, you have to full and submit our on-line application kind earlier than 23:59 Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), 27 August 2026.
• There isn’t any application price for submission of the Rhodes Scholarship application. You should submit your application on-line, earlier than the deadline, and we are able to’t settle for another kind of application.
• 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 help from the crew at Rhodes House.

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the Rhodes West Africa Scholarships