Cambridge International Scholarship Scheme (CISS) | Cambridge Scholarships for the International students

The University of Cambridge will offer, via the Cambridge Trusts, approximately 80 Cambridge International Scholarships to Overseas Students who embark on a research course. The University is awarded to outstanding applicants from countries outside the UK to pursue a full-time postgraduate degree in any subject available at the University of Cambridge. The qualified applicants except UK are eligible to apply for the scholarships. 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. The Trust also considers applications for several types of additional funding on a discretionary basis such as family allowance, conference attendance, fieldwork allowance, some fourth year funding for PhD scholars and hardship funding.

Number of Awards: Gates Cambridge Scholarships are extremely competitive: over 4,000 applicants apply for 80 (approx) Scholarships each years.

Duration of the scholarship: 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).

Target group: Citizens of any country outside the United Kingdom (UK).

Eligibility for the Cambridge scholarships: To be eligible to receive a Cambridge International Scholarship students / applicants must…

• a citizen of any country outside the United Kingdom.

• be liable to pay the Overseas University Composition Fee (i.e. be assessed as 'Overseas' for Fee Status purposes).

• applying to pursue one of the following full-time residential courses of study: PhD (three year research-only degree); MSc or MLitt (two year research-only degree); or a one year postgraduate course (e.g. MPhil, LLM, MASt, Diploma, MBA etc.)

• not a service holder i.e. be engaged in full-time study.

• he/she have a high upper-second-class undergraduate honours degree from a UK Higher Education Institution, or an equivalent from an Overseas Institution.

• already a student at Cambridge and want to apply for a new postgraduate course. I.e. if you are studying for an MPhil you can apply for a Gates Cambridge Scholarship to do a PhD. However, if you have already started a course, you cannot apply for a Gates Cambridge Scholarship to fund the rest of it.

N.B: 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.

Application Process | Application Instructions:  

• In order to be eligible for a CISS award commencing in the next academical year, you must have applied for admission/continuation as a graduate student to the University of Cambridge either online (admission students only) or via the Graduate Admission and Scholarship Application Form (GRADSAF) by 3 December 2013.

[It is very important that you send in your supporting documentation as soon as possible after you have applied for admission online, because your application will not be looked at until this is received. The closing date for this funding is firm – so, no late applications can be considered.]

• Every eligible applicant for a three year research course leading to the PhD in the next academical year will be considered to have applied for a Cambridge International Scholarship provided their completed application for admission is received by the deadline above.

• Applicants are expected to also seek funding from other sources.

• The application must be fully complete, i.e. including academic references and a research statement. The CISS committee will only consider academic achievement and research potential. It is therefore critical that academic references and a research statement are included.

• Candidates should note that, given the volume of applications, applications which arrive after the deadline will not be entered for the Cambridge International Scholarships competition, nor will we provide feedback on the outcome of this competition at any stage.

• In January the Student Registry will submit a list of all eligible candidates to the relevant departments/faculties.

The Gates Cambridge Scholarships are highly competitive scholarships and awarded on the basis of the candidates academic excellence, a good fit between the Scholar and the University of Cambridge, evidence of leadership potential, and a commitment to improving the lives of others.

Natalia Chapovalova, the Scholars of Cambridge

It is a condition that successful candidates must meet all their outstanding conditions for admission to the University in order to receive CISS funding.

Application deadline: Next applications open 1 September 2013. See the How to Apply section for further details. The deadline for applications is 3 December 2013 for citizens other than the US and 15 October 2013 for US citizens.

It is important to visit the official website of the University of Cambridge. The necessary web links for Cambridge International Scholarships are given bellow…

1. Official Website of the University of Cambridge: http://www.cam.ac.uk
2. Official Website for Cambridge Scholarships: https://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/students/studentregistry/fees/funding/ciss/index.html

[Be aware this is NOT the official scholarship announcement.  The website (edunoticebd) is only for general information purposes.  For specific details including updated deadlines and instructions, we always refer to the official website of the scholarship provider. Any dependence you place on information given here is strictly at your own risk.]