OXFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOLARSHIPS

University-wide scholarships

Oxford awards and rankings

• Oxford’s academic community includes 80 Fellows of the Royal Society and 100 Fellows of the British Academy.
• In 2012, two Oxford professors were elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society.
• In 2012, six Oxford professors were elected to the Fellowship of the Academy of Medical Sciences.
• In 2011, eight Oxford professors were elected to the Fellowship of the British Academy.
• The successes of Oxford’s academics are recognised regularly in the awarding of prestigious international prizes, such as the European Laureate Award in the L’ORÉAL-UNESCO For Women in Science Awards, bestowed on Professor Fran Ashcroft in 2012; the Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine, given to Professor Fiona Powrie in 2012 and Professor Peter Ratcliffe in 2009; the Gairdner Award for medical research, awarded in 2010 to Professor Peter Ratcliffe and Professor Nick White; and the International Balzan Prize, awarded to Professor Joe Silk in 2011 and to Professor Terence Cave in 2009.
• Oxford University has won eight Queen's Anniversary Prizes for Higher Education, more than any other university. The prizes were awarded to: the Wildlife Conservation Research Unit (WildCRU) (2011); the University's museums, libraries and archives (2009); the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography at Oxford University Press (2007), the Clinical Trial Service Unit (2005), the Refugee Studies Centre (2002), the Centre for Clinical Vaccinology & Tropical Medicine (2000), the Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine (1996), and Isis Innovation Ltd (1994).
• Oxford was ranked first in the UK and fourth in the world in the Times Higher Education Supplement’s World University Rankings 2011-2012. In the disciplinary tables, Oxford was ranked first in the world in clinical, pre-clinical and health subjects; third for social sciences; fourth for life sciences; seventh for the arts and humanities and for engineering and technology; and tenth for physical sciences.
• Oxford is repeatedly ranked in the top ten of universities worldwide in the annual tables compiled by Shanghai Jiaotong University.
• In June 2011, the annual Times Good University Guide named Oxford Britain’s top university for the tenth year running.
• Oxford is ranked second in the UK by The Guardian (2012), The Complete University Guide (2012) and The Sunday Times (2011).
• In the Financial Times Global Rankings (Jan 2012), the Saïd Business School's MBA programme was ranked 20th in the world and second in the UK. 

University-wide scholarships are graduate funding opportunities available in multiple departments and colleges. A list of university-wide scholarships organised by region is below, with links to further information about each scholarship.

These scholarships are generally fully funded covering all fees and living expenses, although some are partial awards. Most have restrictions on who can apply, for example based on your nationality or the course you wish to study at Oxford. The vast majority of University-wide scholarships are only open to candidates applying to start a new graduate course of study, although a very few may sometimes consider students who are already enrolled. Students who have deferred their place at Oxford are not eligible to apply for these scholarships.

To search the full range of scholarships offered across the different parts of the University, use the Fees, Funding & Scholarship Search tool tool to see what you may be eligible for. If you want to investigate funding managed by external organisations, go to the External scholarships page.

• Multiple regions
• Students from the UK and Europe
• Students from Africa
• Students from Asia
• Students from Australasia
• Students from North America

Multiple regions

• Clarendon Fund
• Commonwealth Scholarship Commission/University of Oxford joint awards
• Commonwealth Shared Scholarship Scheme
• Ertegun Graduate Scholarship Programme in the Humanities
• Generations for Peace
• IDB-Oxford Clarendon Scholarships
• Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies (OCIS) Scholarship
• Raffy Manoukian 
  
• Rhodes Scholarships
• Santander Graduate Awards
• Santander DPhil Scholarship - Spanish Studies
• Weidenfeld Scholarships and Leadership Programme - Please check back in late September 2012 for information for academic year 2013-14.
• Wolfson Postgraduate Scholarships in the Humanities
• Yousef Jameel Scholarship

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Students from the UK and Europe

• Dulverton Scholarships
• Hill Foundation Scholarships
• Jenkins Memorial Fund Scholarships
• Open Society Foundations Oxford Scholarships
• Prendergast Bequest
• Pirie-Reid Scholarships
• Research Councils
• Scatcherd Scholarships

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Students from Africa

• Oppenheimer Fund
• Waverley - African Studies Centre Scholarship

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Students from Asia

• China Oxford Scholarship Fund
• China Scholarship Council-University of Oxford Scholarships
• Felix Scholarships
• Vicky Noon Educational Foundation Oxford Scholarships
• Oxford Kobe Scholarships
• Saïd Foundation Oxford Scholarships
• University of Oxford Croucher Scholarships

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Students from Australasia

• Charlie Perkins Scholarships
• Oxford Australia Scholarship Fund

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Students from North America

• Fulbright-Oxford Clarendon Scholarship
• Trudeau Foundation Scholarship 

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