We are pleased to announce that the 2018/2019 Chevening Scholarships are open. This is a good opportunity to pursue your studies in the United kingdom.

Chevening provides fully-funded scholarships, leaving you free to focus on achieving your professional goals and enjoying the experience of a lifetime. You will live and study in the UK for a year, during which time you will develop professionally and academically, network extensively, experience UK culture, and build lasting positive relationships with the UK.

These scholarships are awarded to outstanding professionals from your country and beyond to pursue a one-year master’s degree in any subject at any UK university.

Applications Deadline: 7 November 2017.

Scholarship Value: Fully-Funded

Number of Scholarship: 1,500
Scholarship Type: Masters
Courses: Applicants will need to select three different master’s courses, these can be three different courses at the same institution or the same titled course but at three different universities in UK. You should choose your field of study carefully and select courses which reflect your current or future career goals. To be awarded a scholarship, you must get an unconditional offer for one of your course choices by 12 July 2018. Choose your three courses carefully as you won’t be able to change them after submitting your application.

Who Can Apply?: To be eligible for a Chevening Award you must:
-Be a citizen of a Chevening-eligible country

-Return to your country of citizenship for a minimum of two years after your award has ended

-Have an undergraduate degree that will enable you to gain entry onto a postgraduate programme at a UK university. This is typically equivalent to an upper second-class 2:1 honours degree in the UK.

-Have at least two years’ work experience (this may be up to five years for fellowship programmes, so please refer to your country page for further details)

-Apply to three different eligible UK university courses and have received an unconditional offer from one of these choices by 12 July 2018

-Meet the Chevening English language requirement by 12 July 2018.
Chevening accepts English language tests from five providers:
Academic IELTS
Pearson PTE Academic
TOEFL iBT

Cambridge English: Advanced (CEA)
Trinity ISE II (B2)

The English language test must be taken from one of these providers on or after 1 October 2015. If you do not already have an existing eligible test certificate, it is your responsibility to ensure that you have booked a test date so that you can obtain the required results. For more on the English requirements,

visit: http://www.chevening.org/apply/english-language-requirement

You are not eligible for a Chevening Award if you:

-Hold British or dual British citizenship (unless you are a citizen of a British Overseas Territory or hold BN(O) and are applying from Hong Kong)
-Are an employee, a former employee, or relative of an employee (since July 2015) of Her Majesty’s Government (including British Embassies/High Commissions, the Department for International Development, the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy, Department for International Trade, the Ministry of Defence and the Home Office), the British Council, or a staff member of the Association of Commonwealth Universities. Employees, former employees, or relatives of an employee (since July 2015) of Chevening Partner organisations are eligible to apply, but cannot receive a Chevening/Partner Award from the organisation for which they work, previously worked, or are affiliated with through relatives

.
(Note: Immediate relatives are defined as parents or step-parents, siblings or step-siblings, children or step-children, spouse, civil partner or unmarried partner (where the couple have been in a relationship akin to marriage or civil partnership for at least two years)
-Have previously studied in the UK with funding from a UK Government-funded scholarship. However, if you have previously studied under a UK Government-funded scholarship (including Chevening), you may be eligible to apply for a Chevening Fellowship five years after completion of your initial UK Government-funded scholarship.

Application Process Interested and qualified candidates are to visit the official application page and navigate to your country’s application centre in order to start your application.
In order to submit your Chevening Scholarship application, it is essential that you have the following ready:
-Valid passport/national ID card
-University transcripts and degree certificates (undergraduate, postgraduate)

-Three different UK master’s course choices

You may also wish to submit the following optional documents if you already meet the requirements. You can submit your initial application without these documents, but you will have to upload them to your application by 12 July 2018:

-English language test results
-UK master’s university offer
Only documents in PDF format can be uploaded to the online application system, and documents cannot be over 5MB in size.

For more information, visit the Official scholarship webpage . To see more local & international scholarships that you can easily qualify and apply for, click here

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