Requirements

Who can apply

• You must be ordinarily resident in one of the eligible countries. Eligibility is based on where you live, not your passport. Refugees and displaced applicants are judged by nationality.

• You must be applying to start a new full-time graduate course at Oxford, and it must be one of the eligible courses.

• You must be offered a place on your course after it reviews applications sent by its December or January deadline.

• You should plan to return to your country of ordinary residence after your course.

• You must show how your studies link to your future career and to improving public life in your country, your region or the wider world.

Eligible courses (examples)

• MPP (Master of Public Policy), MBA, BCL and MJur.

• MSc Economics for Development, MSc African Studies, MSc Global Health Science and Epidemiology, MSc International Health and Tropical Medicine.

• MSc Energy Systems, MSc Environmental Change and Policy, MSc Water Science, Policy and Management, MSc Advanced Computer Science, MSc Social Data Science.

• MSc Migration Studies, MSc Refugee and Forced Migration Studies, MSc Global Governance and Diplomacy and others. See the full list of 40 courses on the official page.

Who cannot apply

• People who already hold a deferred offer to start in 2027-28.

• Current Oxford students, unless they are already Weidenfeld-Hoffmann scholars.

• Applicants whose course application is held over to the March deadline or put on a waiting list.

• Residents of the UK, USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand (these countries are not on the list).

Language

• Most eligible courses need English at Oxford's higher level if English is not your first language. Check the test scores on your course page.