Scholarships
New graduate students at Oxford in 2014-15 will benefit from over 850 scholarships, worth over £70 million, from the University, its colleges and other supporters.
Use our Fees, Funding and Scholarship Search tool to get a comprehensive list of all of the University scholarships for which you are eligible.
To make the University’s state-of-the-art facilities and unique college communities accessible to all academically excellent graduates, Oxford has a wide range of scholarships available for graduate students from Africa. Funding comes from a variety of sources including University-wide schemes such as the Clarendon Fund, departmental scholarships, college scholarships, and other external funds kindly donated by charities and philanthropists.
Clarendon Fund
The Clarendon Fund offers over 120 full scholarships every year to academically excellent graduate students at the University of Oxford. Clarendon Scholarships cover full fees as well as a generous grant for living expenses – funded with the help of Oxford University Press, Oxford’s colleges and other external partners.
Some of the key scholarship schemes available to African graduate students include:
- Africa Water Stewardship Scholarship
- British Chevening Scholarships
- Commonwealth Scholarships
- Commonwealth/Vice-Chancellor Oxford Scholarships for African Human Rights Advocates
- Louis Dreyfus-Weidenfeld Scholarship and Leadership Programme
- Ertegun Graduate Scholarship Programme in the Humanities
- Oppenheimer Fund
- ORISHA DPhil Scholarship (African Humanities Research Fund)
- Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Scholarships
- Queen Elizabeth House (QEH) Scholarships
- Rhodes Scholarships
- St Antony’s College ENI Scholarships
- Waverley-African Studies Centre Joint Scholarship

