The University of Cambridge will offer, via the
Cambridge Trusts, approximately 80 Cambridge International Scholarships to
Overseas Students who embark on a research course in the next academical year.
The awards will be made on a competitive basis to those applicants considered
by their departments to be the most outstanding.
Value of
the Award
Each award will underwrite the full cost of fees
and maintenance for the duration of the course.
Duration of
the Award
The award has a maximum duration
of three years and is available to all students who will be registered for a
three year research programme, leading to the PhD (including CPGS), that starts
in the next academical year.
Eligibility
To be eligible to receive a Cambridge
International Scholarship students must:
- be
liable to pay the Overseas University Composition Fee (i.e. be assessed as
'Overseas' for Fee Status purposes).
- be
engaged in a three year research programme leading to the PhD (i.e. will
be registered as PhD, "Probationary PhD" or "CPGS")
starting in the next academical year.
- be
engaged in full-time study.
- have
a high upper-second-class undergraduate honours degree from a UK Higher
Education Institution, or an equivalent from an Overseas Institution.
Please note: all students applying for a course of
one year duration or less (including LLM, MSt, MBA, MED, Part III Mathematics,
MPhil) in the next academical year are not eligible for a CISS
award in the next academical year.
