Commonwealth Shared Scholarships

Financial assistance

Commonwealth Shared Scholarships cover:

tuition fees
maintenance/living cost stipend
approved airfare from the scholar's home country to the UK and return at the end of the award
thesis grant
study travel grant (if applicable)
a one-off arrival allowance.

Eligibility

To be eligible, you must have applied for one of the following one-year taught postgraduate programmes at the University of Bristol:

MSc Global Development and Environment
MSc Digital Health
MSc Sustainable Engineering
LLM Health, Law and Society
MSc Climate Change Science and Policy

To be considered for these scholarships, applicants must:

Be a citizen of or have been granted refugee status by an eligible Commonwealth country.

Be permanently resident in an eligible Commonwealth country.

Be available to start academic studies in the UK by the start of the UK academic year in September 2025.

By September 2025, hold a first degree of at least upper second-class (2:1) honours standard, or a lower second-class degree and a relevant postgraduate qualification (usually a Master's degree).

Not have studied or worked for more than one (academic) year or more in a high-income country

Be unable to afford to study in the UK without this scholarship.

Have provided all supporting documentation in the required format.