What do you want to study?
Most fully funded awards are for postgraduate study. That is just how the money works.
- A bachelors degree My first degree
- A masters One or two years after a bachelors
- A PhD or research Doctoral study
Five questions, about a minute. We check your answers against the real rules of twelve fully funded scholarships for international students and tell you which you can apply for — and which to stop looking at. Every one is an abroad education scholarship that pays in full, not a study abroad program you fund yourself. Nothing is saved.
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Before you start
How do I apply for a scholarship to study abroad?
You apply directly to the body giving the money — never through an agent, and never through us. The usual order catches people out: pick your course first, then apply for scholarships that fund it. Most fully funded scholarships want proof you have a university place, or at least an application already in progress.
Start your course applications several months before the scholarship deadline. Chevening, for instance, wants an unconditional offer in hand by July.
Which scholarships for international students are open right now?
Look at the badge on each card. We work it out from today’s date, so any scholarship available now is marked open, and a closed one tells you which month it reopens. Nothing here is a stale list from three years ago.
How to apply for a scholarship, step by step
One: shortlist courses you meet the entry requirements for. Two: check which of the twelve awards funds that country and level. Three: get your references and transcripts translated early — this is what delays most people. Four: write the application around what you will do after the degree, not what you have done. Five: submit well before the deadline, because the portals fall over on the last day.
There are scholarships for students at every level here, but almost all of them assume you already have a course in mind.
Which study abroad scholarships are the easiest to win?
None are easy, but some are far less crowded. Erasmus Mundus has no nationality restriction and dozens of separate programmes, each with its own selection. MEXT and the Global Korea Scholarship run country quotas, so your competition is other applicants from your country rather than the whole world.
Gates Cambridge and Rhodes are the opposite — famous, and brutally competitive.