The interested candidates belonging to fragile states and least developed countries in commonwealth are eligible to apply for fully funded Commonwealth Master’s scholarship and Commonwealth PhD Scholarship to pursue their postgraduate studies at the universities in UK. There are lot of development programs for the students throughout the world under the commonwealth scholarship in UK 2022.
The aim of commonwealth scholarships for international students is to provide the developmental requirements to the commonwealth countries. This scholarship in United Kingdom for international students will also develop the research capacity and individual teaching to enhance academic capacity of institutions and other sectors. It will also add it’s contribution to higher education and research in UK by encouraging collaboration and attracting outstanding candidates throughout the world.
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Brief description
- Title: Commonwealth Scholarship 2022
- Organization: The Commonwealth
- Host country: UK
- Host institution: Universities of United Kingdom
- Degree levels: Masters and PhD
- Financial coverage: fully funded
- Nationality: Developing countries
- Mode of application: online
- Deadline: November 01, 2021.
Criteria of Eligibility for Commonwealth scholarship 2022
- All the interested candidates willing to pursue their postgraduate studies understand commonwealth scholarship in UK 2022 must fulfill the given eligibility criteria;
- The interested candidate must be a British protected person, or citizen of any of the counties included in the commonwealth.
- He/she must be permanent resident of an eligible commonwealth country.
- The interested candidate must be able to start his)her studies in UK by the start of UK yearly academic calendar in Sep/Oct 2022.
- He or she must hold a relevant bachelors degree to apply for Commonwealth Master’s scholarship by September 2022.
- For commonwealth PhD scholarship application, the candidate must a hold Master’s degree by September 2022.
- The interested applicant must be unable to afford his study in UK expenses without commonwealth scholarship.
- English language: language requirement depends on the university you have opted for admission. TOEFL, IELTS or any other efficiency proof of English language may be needed by the universities of UK.
Fields of study
- Commonwealth scholarship 2022 in UK offers admissions for following fields of study;
- Science and technology for development
- Strengthening health systems and capacity.
- Promoting global prosperity.
- Strengthening global governance, security, and peace.
- Response to crisis and strengthening resilience.
- Opportunity, inclusion, and access.
Commonwealth Master’s application
- The main route of application, national nominating agencies.
- Chosen charitable bodies and NGOs.
Application for commonwealth PhD scholarship
- The main route of application, national nominating agencies.
- Opted university bodies which can nominate their own educational staff.
- Chosen charitable bodies and NGOs.
Every nominating body can have its additional eligibility criteria and is responsible for its own process of selection. The candidate must check their nominating body for its specific rules and advices for their application deadline, eligibility criteria, and process of application. In addition to any other application to be completed by the candidate asked by candidate’s selected nominating body, the candidate must prepare his/her application using CSC’s. Those applications are not accepted by CSC which are not submitted through online application system.
Required documents
- Citizenship proof
- Letters of recommendation (2).
- Statement of purpose
- For PhD only: statement of support from the candidate’s proposed supervisor in United Kingdom from at least one of the universities opted in application form.
- Additional supporting documents (if any).
What you get
- Free airfare
- Tuition fees
- Living allowance (£1,116/month, and £1,369 for those at universities in London metropolitan area).
- Allowance for warm clothes (where applicable).
- Study or research travel allowance within United Kingdom or abroad.
- Family allowance.
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