Oxford Clarendon Scholarships 2027-2028:

Oxford Clarendon Scholarships 2027-2028

Clarendon offers fully-funded scholarships each year to assist outstanding graduate scholars, and also the opportunity to join one of the most active, internationally diverse and multidisciplinary communities at Oxford.

Clarendon scholarships are competitive, prestigious and highly sought-after. Like all fully-funded Oxford scholarships, Clarendon covers course fees and provides a grant for living expenses. This funding helps reduce the financial barriers that may stand in the way of the best students, from across the world, coming to study at Oxford.

Clarendon aims to offer an increasing number of new scholarships each year – with over 230 in 2025/26. Currently, there are about 700 on-course scholars at Oxford, making Clarendon the University’s largest scholarship scheme.

There are no quotas by nationality or degree. Every student who submits an application for a degree-bearing graduate course by the relevant December or January funding deadline for their course will automatically be considered.

Scholarships are also awarded for two-year graduate degrees, such as the MPhil or BPhil, and one-year degrees, such as the MSc, MSt, MBA or MFE.

To ensure the scholarship remains true to its purpose, the Fund is overseen by the Clarendon Fund Steering Group, consisting of representatives from across the University. The Steering Group acts as board of management and is designed to ensure the Fund’s effective running and to provide consistency across the academic divisions and Oxford Lifelong Learning.

After acceptance of a Clarendon scholarship, the process of creating tailored funding packages begins. The Clarendon Admin Team will review and match new scholars with suitable partnership awards depending on eligibility requirements. No further information will be required of candidates in order to be considered for these awards. Some scholars may need to transfer colleges in order to take up a partnership award, however this will be handled by the Clarendon Admin Team in liaison with the colleges. Scholars are informed when they are being transferred college; it is not optional.

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