Applications are now open for the prestigious Chevening Scholarship for 2026! This renowned program offers talented individuals from around the world the opportunity to pursue a master’s degree in the UK, enhancing their academic and professional development. As a Chevening Scholar, you will join a global network of future leaders and innovators committed to making a positive impact in their home countries and beyond.
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If you are driven, ambitious, and ready to take the next step in your educational journey, we invite you to apply and embark on an enriching experience that will shape your future!
Chevening eligibility criteria
You must meet our eligibility criteria to apply for a Chevening Scholarship. Ineligible applications will be rejected.
To be eligible for a Chevening Scholarship you must:
- Be a citizen of a Chevening-eligible country or territory.
- Commit to returning to your home country for at least two years after your scholarship ends.
- Have at least 2,800 hours of work experience since graduating from your undergraduate degree. This is roughly equivalent to two years of full-time work, though it may have been completed over a shorter or longer period.
- Hold an undergraduate degree that qualifies you for a UK master’s programme.
- Apply to three different and eligible UK university courses. You must have received an unconditional offer from at least one of these course choices by the references and education documents deadline listed on the application timeline.
Two updates to Chevening’s eligibility criteria new this year
1. Only work experience gained after the date of your graduation will count towards the two-year requirement.
What does this mean?
Experience gained while studying will no longer be eligible.
Fellowships eligibility criteria
General eligibility requirements for a Chevening Fellowship
To be eligible for a Chevening Fellowship you must:
- Be a citizen of a fellowship-eligible country or territory.
- Demonstrate the potential to rise to a position of leadership and influence.
- Demonstrate the personal, intellectual and interpersonal attributes reflecting this potential.
- Return to your country of citizenship at the end of the period of the fellowship.
- Have a postgraduate level qualification (or equivalent professional training or experience in a relevant area) at the time of application.
- Meet all programme-specific fellowship eligibility requirements.
- Not hold British or dual British citizenship.
- Not have received UK Government scholarship funding (including Chevening) within the last five years. You will only be eligible to apply for a Chevening Fellowship after a period of five years following the completion of your first UK Government-funded scholarship.
- Not be an employee, a former employee, or relative* of an employee of His Majesty’s Government, or have been within the last two years from the opening of Chevening applications (including the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, all British Embassies/High Commissions, the Home Office, the Ministry of Defence, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, the Department for International Trade and the UKVI), the British Council, or a sponsoring UK university. Individuals contracted to work on any British Council programme or project, and their relatives, are ineligible.
