The 2025/2026 Beit Trust Postgraduate Scholarships for Africans opens for applications beginning September 2024. African students are invited to apply for a postgraduate scholarship position to study in the UK or South African fully funded and supported by the Beit Trust.
The Beit Trust is a collaboration between eight UK universities and three South African University to sponsor individuals with the passion to pursue a degree program. The partnership between the universities helps share cost thereby increasing the number of scholarships that can be funded by the Beit Trust.
SUMMARY:
- Scholarship Sponsor(s): The Beit Trust
- Scholarships to be taken at: UK or South Africa
- Scholarship Type: Full Scholarship
- Scholarship level: Postgraduate (Masters)
- Scholarship Worth: See Benefits (below)
- Nationality: Africans
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Beit Trust Postgraduate Scholarship 2025 | Eligibility Criteria
- By Act of Parliament, the Beit Trust supports ONLY students who are nationals of Zambia, Zimbabwe or Malawi, who hold permanent residence, live there and/or intend to return to their country after their studies.
- Academic Capability: we look first at those with a Distinction or Merit (Upper Second Class) in their undergraduate degree. Those with Lower Second Class or Credit/Pass degrees, while not ineligible to apply, will struggle to beat the competition.
- Those who already hold a postgraduate degree are likely only in the most exceptional cases to be considered for a Beit Postgraduate Scholarship.
- Professional Work Experience: important in the award of a scholarship. This should be relevant to the proposed field of study.
- Additional eligibility info can be gathered from the official website of the scholarship programme.
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Scholarship Benefits
- Fees, tuition costs and related academic expenses.
- A personal allowance, index-linked in accordance from an independent authority, covering maintenance support.
- Other allowances are paid for arrival, a laptop and departure.
- Economy class tickets to the place of study and on final return.
Application Procedure
How-to-Apply: Interested applicants for the Beit Trust Postgraduate Scholarship 2025/26 are to apply by following the procedures as outlined:
- Apply to any of the partner university in the UK and South Africa and be offered admission to study a postgraduate course.
- Notify the partner university that he/she will be approaching the Beit Trust for scholarship funding and should also indicate the work experience.
- Notify the Trust once application has been submitted to the partner university and also tell the trust which course is being applied for.
- Confirm their nationality to the Trust; Zambians are to send their application form for confirmation to [email protected]
- Applicants from Zimbabwe and Malawi are to send theirs to [email protected].
- Applications, with all the supporting documents are to be uploaded online via the scholarship application link before the application deadline.
Document Requirements:
- A signed Medical Certificate Form from your doctor. This will need to be completed before you begin the application process below. Please download the form here: Medical Certificate Form
- A copy of your offer letter from a UK Partner University/s; or a PDF document detailing the university/s and course/s you will apply to at South African Partner University/s.
- Degree results.
- Curriculum Vitae
- A personal statement(no longer than 500 words) to explain in your own words how you think a postgraduate degree will benefit your country and its development.
- A clear recent photograph of yourself: not a passport photo, but something that shows you to your best advantage.
- A clear copy of your valid passport, showing date of issue and expiry.
Application Deadline: February 2025