Scholarships

St Antony’s has partnered with the Academic Futures scholarship programme to offer a fully funded Academic Futures Scholarship from any of the Academic Futures scholarship programmes. Academic Futures is a series of scholarship programmes that aim to address under-representation and help improve equality, diversity and inclusion in our graduate student body.

Applications are made as part of the University application process. Please see the University’s Academic Futures website for further details of how to apply.

St Antony’s is proud to be a partner in the University’s Palestine Crisis Scholarship Scheme. This scheme provides access to higher education to students displaced by the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and the West Bank through the provision of full graduate scholarships to study at Oxford. Eligible students should apply by the relevant deadline for their course and will be automatically considered for this scholarship.

Further details on this scholarship scheme are available on the University’s website.

St Antony’s has partnered with the AfOx scholarship programme to offer two fully funded AfOx Scholarships. The scholarship is open to an incoming graduate student applying for any one-year Masters course that St Antony’s accepts who is from an African country that receives official development assistance from the OECD (a full list can be found here) and has completed their undergraduate degree at an African university. Eligible students will be automatically considered for this scholarship. More details about the AfOx selection process are on the AfOx website here.

The Oxford & Cambridge Society of Kenya has partnered with the AfOx scholarship programme to offer a fully funded AfOx Scholarship. The Oxford & Cambridge Society of Kenya was founded in the 1920s, and since then has represented alumni of both universities in Kenya. It has about 200 members, and has long supported Kenyan students on courses in Oxford and Cambridge.

The scholarship is open to an incoming graduate student applying for any one-year Masters course that St Antony’s accepts who is from Kenya and has completed their undergraduate degree at a Kenyan university. Eligible students will be automatically considered for this scholarship. More details about the AfOx selection process are on the AfOx website here.

St Antony’s College offers a full scholarship for an incoming graduate student from Latin America wishing to study for a degree offered by the Oxford Department of International Development (ODID) in the academic year 2025-26.

The Angelines DAC ODID Scholarship is a joint initiative by St Antony’s and ODID and came from Professor Valpy FitzGerald who has been a central figure in academic life at both the College and Department since 1992. The scholarship is named after his wife Angelines, who has been struggling with Alzheimer’s Disease.

A committee at ODID will review the applications and award the St Antony’s Angelines DAC ODID Scholarship on academic merit.

St Antony’s College offers a full scholarship for an incoming graduate student from a country that receives official development assistance from the OECD (a full list can be found here) and has completed their undergraduate degree in their home country to study for a degree offered by the Oxford Department of International Development (ODID) in the academic year 2025-26.

The St Antony’s DAC ODID Scholarship is a joint initiative by St Antony’s and ODID. A committee at ODID will review the applications and award the St Antony’s Angelines DAC ODID Scholarship on academic merit.

The scholarship is open to an incoming graduate student applying for MPhil Economics who is from an African country that receives official development assistance from the OECD (a full list can be found here) and has completed their undergraduate degree at an African university. Eligible students will be automatically considered for this scholarship. This scholarship will next be awarded in the academic year 26/27.

St Antony’s Warden’s Fund has partnered with the Clarendon Fund to offer a fully funded Clarendon scholarship in any course that is accepted by the college. Candidates for this scholarship are selected through the Clarendon Scholarship selection process which does not require a separate application to college.

St Antony’s DAC Fund has partnered with the Clarendon Fund to offer a fully funded Clarendon scholarship in any course that is accepted by the college. Candidates for this scholarship are selected through the Clarendon Scholarship selection process which does not require a separate application to college. The scholarship is open to an incoming graduate student applying from a country that receives official development assistance from the OECD (a full list can be found here) and has completed their undergraduate degree at an African university. Eligible students will be automatically considered for this scholarship.

St Antony’s Warden’s Fund has provided funding to partner with the UKRI to offer a fully funded UKRI scholarship in any Social Science course that is accepted by the college. Candidates for this scholarship are selected through the UKRI Scholarship selection process which does not require a separate application to college.

Four scholarships are available for students from Japan, Chinese mainland or Hong Kong SAR for all full-time Master’s and DPhil courses offered by the College excluding the MBA, the MFE and the MPP. The scholarship is fully funded and includes course fees and a stipend for living costs.  Find out more and apply here.

St Antony’s has partnered with the Weidenfeld-Hoffmann Trust to offer three fully funded St Antony’s WHT DAC Scholarships. The scholarship will cover 100% of course fees and a grant for living costs (of at least £18,622). Awards are made to cover the full duration of your fee liability for the agreed course.

The Weidenfeld-Hoffmann Scholarships and Leadership Programme aims to provide outstanding university graduates and professionals from developing and emerging economies with the opportunity to pursue study at Oxford. In addition to their studies, the graduates participate in a tailor-made Leadership programme to give them additional practical skills and opportunities. It is expected that many of the students will come from countries and backgrounds that mean that the scholarship is particularly life changing, both for the Scholar themselves and in terms of the potential impact of their work after their studies are completed.

Applications are made as part of the University application process. Please see the University website for further details of how to apply.

The Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre at St Antony’s College offers this scholarship to a graduate student who will commence study on the MPhil in Russian and East European Studies course at St Antony’s in 2023/24. The scholarship of £9,000 per annum will be awarded according to academic merit.

The Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies invites applications for up to three Sasakawa Postgraduate Studentships in Japanese Studies, with the generous support by the Nippon Foundation and the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation.

The Faculty can nominate the candidate for the MSc/MPhil/DPhil studentship of £10,000. This studentship is initially for one year only, but may be renewable subject to satisfactory progress in subsequent years, up to a maximum of three years, beginning in September of the 2023/24 academic year.

The Asian Studies Centre offers the Wai Seng Senior Research Scholarship is tenable at St Antony’s College for two years and is open to all matriculated students of the University of Oxford working for a Doctor of Philosophy degree in fields such as modern history, social sciences (e.g. politics, international relations, economics, sociology, social anthropology), education and human geography and whose research involves the study of the Asia-Pacific. Preference will be given to candidates whose research interests are focused on China, Hong Kong, or Taiwan or on comparative Asian studies involving one of these territories.

The Hadid Studentship is available to continuing doctoral students in any faculty of the Humanities and Social Sciences working on the modern Middle East.
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