Commonwealth Shared Scholarships

We are offering two fully-funded scholarships for full-time masters study in 2026/27.

About

We’re pleased to be able to offer two fully-funded scholarships through the Commonwealth Shared Scholarship scheme.

These scholarships are funded jointly by the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission (CSC) and the University of Surrey and are intended to support students from low- and middle-income Commonwealth countries who would otherwise be unable to study in the UK.

Beneficiaries are individuals who have not studied in a high-income country for a year or more, cannot afford to fund their UK study independently, and demonstrate potential to drive development in their home countries through acquired knowledge and leadership skills.

Eligibility criteria

To be eligible applicants must:

Hold an offer for one of the following programmes to start in September 2026:
- MSc Data Science
- MSc Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management
- MSc FinTech and Policy
- MSc Human Nutrition
- MSc Pharmaceutical Sciences
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 2026
By September 2026, 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 masters 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.