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Overview
Scholarship type
Merit based
Number of scholarships to award
Multiple
Grant
Tuition waiver + other benefits
Scholarship coverage
- tuition fee reduction
- living expenses
- travel expenses
- other
Description
Marshall Scholarships finance young Americans of high ability to study for a degree in the United Kingdom. Up to fifty Scholars are selected each year to study at graduate level at an UK institution in any field of study.
The Marshall Scholarships programme objectives are:
To enable intellectually distinguished young Americans, their country's future leaders, to study in the UK.
To help Scholars gain an understanding and appreciation of contemporary Britain.
To contribute to the advancement of knowledge in science, technology, the humanities and social sciences and the creative arts at Britain's centres of academic excellence.
To motivate Scholars to act as ambassadors from the USA to the UK and vice versa throughout their lives thus strengthening British American understanding.
To promote the personal and academic fulfilment of each Scholar.
Applicable programmes
Benefits
University fees, cost of living expenses, annual book grant, thesis grant, research and daily travel grants, fares to and from the United States and, where applicable, a contribution towards the support of a dependent spouse.
Eligibility
- Be citizens of the United States of America (at the time they apply for a scholarship);
- (By the time they take up their scholarship i.e. September 2025) hold their first undergraduate degree from an accredited four-year college or university in the United States;
- Have obtained a grade point average of not less than 3.7 on their undergraduate degree at the time of application. We do not accept rounded GPA's.
- Have graduated from their first undergraduate college or university after April 2022.
- Not have studied for, or hold a degree or degree-equivalent qualification from a British University or GCSE or A Levels taken at school in the UK.
Scholarship requirements
Disciplines
Any
Locations
United Kingdom
Nationality
American
Study experience required
Bachelor
Age
Unknown
Application
Application deadline
24 Sep 2025
Candidates must submit their application on the online form provided. Applications must be endorsed by the President, Provost, or Academic Dean of the applicant's US educational undergraduate institution. The online application must be submitted and authorised by a designated member of staff at the applicant's educational institution. Please note permission must be sought to be endorsed by your graduate institution.