Chevening Scholarship 2022
Overview
The Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office and associated organisations provide funding for the Chevening international scholarship programme, which is offered by the UK government. It offers scholarships with full funding for one-year Master's programmes in the UK.
Since 1983, more than 50,000 professionals, including 2,000 Pakistanis, have received Chevening scholarships. For the academic year 2023–2024, the programme will award more than 1,500 scholarships worldwide.
"If you are someone who is passionate about driving change, whether on a local or global scale, if you want to be the best at what you do and if you have the imagination to inspire others, then a Chevening Scholarship could be the perfect opportunity for you," said Andrew Dalgleish, the acting British high commissioner to Pakistan.
What you need to know about the Chevening scholarships:
Eligibility Criteria
Applicants must:
Be citizens of Chevening-eligible countries.
Return to the country for a minimum of two years after the scholarship ends.
Have fulfilled all the requirements of an undergraduate degree to gain entry into the master’s program.
Have a minimum of two years of work experience (2,800 hours).
Have applied to three different UK university courses and have received an offer from at least one of them.
Interested individuals will not be eligible to apply if they:
Hold a British or dual British citizenship (unless the applicant is a British Overseas Citizen, or has British nationality (overseas) and is applying from Hong Kong.
Are an employee, former employee, or relative of an employee of the British government or Chevening Partner organizations.
Have already studied in the UK on a UK government-funded scholarship.
Required Application Documents
All academic certificates and degrees
Two reference letters
One unconditional offer from a UK university
A short biography about the applicant
Passport/National ID (for interview)
Note that the referees should not be relatives or friends of the applicant. However, the referee must know the applicant in an academic or professional capacity.
Chevening could possibly request additional documents via email.
The application for the scholarship will open on 2 August 2022, as announced by Chevening. Applicants have to register on the online domain to apply for the scholarship: https://www.chevening.org/apply/
Applications started on the 2nd of August and the deadline is November 1st for 2022.
Visit Scholarship Website