Overview
Scholarship type
Merit and need based
Number of scholarships to award
Multiple
Grant
£20,280
Scholarship coverage
- tuition fee reduction
- travel expenses
- other
Description
London School of Economics and Political Science can support you financially if you are admitted to one of its study programmes as an international student.
London School of Economics and Political Science awards scholarships, bursaries, tuition fee reductions and discounts that help you cover existing tuition and living costs.
Benefits
The FCDO and participating United Kingdom institutions will jointly meet the full costs of an award holder's study in the United Kingdom, including airfares to and from the United Kingdom. The full tuition fees and a maintenance allowance will be provided, the maintenance allowance was £20,280 for 12 months.
A grant of up to £225 to cover master's thesis costs is available along with a £200 study travel grant; the cost of up to 10 kilograms of accompanied excess baggage is also available for scholars returning home at the end of their awards.
Eligibility
Awards are for full-time one-year taught postgraduate programmes only.
The following programmes ere eligible:
- MSc Development Management
- MSc Gender, Development and Globalisation
- MSc Global Health Policy
- MSc International Development and Humanitarian Emergencies
- MSc Local Economic Development
- MSc Health and International Development
- MSc Environment and Development
Applicants are expected to hold a first degree at either first class or upper second class level.
You must also confirm that you are sufficiently fluent in written and oral English to pursue your studies at LSE immediately, as no pre-course English Language teaching is available under these awards.
Applicants who have already studied for one year or more in a developed country, or who possess sufficient resources to self-fund, are not eligible for an award.
Applicants must certify that they:
- Are nationals of (or permanently domiciled in) an eligible Commonwealth developing country and not at present living or studying in a developed country;
- Have not undertaken studies lasting one year or more in a developed country;
- Are themselves, or through their families, unable to pay to study in the United Kingdom;
- Will return to their home country as soon as their award ends.
Scholarship requirements
Disciplines
Any
Locations
United Kingdom
Nationality
British
Study experience required
Bachelor
Age
Over 1
Application
Application deadline
16 Feb 2027
To apply for a Commonwealth Shared Scholarship for programmes beginning in September, you needed to follow these steps:
- submit your application for admission to one of the eligible programmes at LSE. See how to apply for graduate study at LSE.
- submit your application to the via the Commonwealth Shared Scholarship web page by Tuesday 9 December at 16:00 GMT.
- submit your LSE Graduate Financial Support Application via the LSE Graduate Applicant Portal by 16 February. This will also allow you to be considered for other LSE Scholarships you may be eligible for.
- receive an offer of a place (conditional or unconditional)