Cambridge Opportunity Studentships and Get In Cambridge Studentships 2025 (Fully-funded)

Cambridge Opportunity Studentships and Get In Cambridge Studentships are for Masters applicants from low-income households with experience of educational disadvantage, who are set at the Home fee rate.

• Table of Content
• About Cambridge Trust
• Cambridge Trust Cambridge Opportunity Studentships and Get In Cambridge Studentships
• Aim and Benefits of Cambridge Trust Cambridge Opportunity Studentships and Get In Cambridge Studentships
• Requirements for Cambridge Trust Cambridge Opportunity Studentships and Get In Cambridge Studentships Qualification
• Interview date, Process and Venue for Cambridge Trust Cambridge Opportunity Studentships and Get In Cambridge Studentships
• Application Deadline
• How to Apply

About Cambridge Trust

The Cambridge Commonwealth, European & International Trust was established on 1 August 2013 from the merger of the Cambridge Commonwealth Trust and the Cambridge Overseas Trust.  These were established as charities by the University of Cambridge in the 1980s in order to provide financial support for international students on degree courses at Cambridge.  The Trust awards approximately 500 scholarships annually, and supports between 1,100 and 1,400 students in residence each year from 85 countries across the world.  During its history of over 30 years of off... continue reading

Cambridge Trust Cambridge Opportunity Studentships and Get In Cambridge Studentships

Application Deadline	Not Specified
Country to study	United Kingdom
School to study	University of Cambridge
Type	Masters
Sponsor	Cambridge Trust
Gender	Men and Women

Aim and Benefits of Cambridge Trust Cambridge Opportunity Studentships and Get In Cambridge Studentships

Both studentships are intended to cover University fees and living expenses when the maximum postgraduate grant / loan is taken with government student finance. 

Requirements for Cambridge Trust Cambridge Opportunity Studentships and Get In Cambridge Studentships Qualification

Be a Masters students from low-income households with experience of educational disadvantage who are set at the Home rate for fees. 

Get In Cambridge Studentships follow the same criteria and are reserved to address under-representation of students from Black, British Bangladeshi or British Pakistani backgrounds.

Interview date, Process and Venue for Cambridge Trust Cambridge Opportunity Studentships and Get In Cambridge Studentships

• Essential criteria:
  • Applicants must not already be qualified at Masters level or higher, nor currently undertaking postgraduate study
  • You must also be able to agree with the following statement, and to provide evidence on request: I do not have the existing financial means (in the form of savings, assets, other awards, or an income independent of hours worked) to finance the proposed course of study
• Additional criteria:
  • In addition to the essential criteria above, one or more of the following should apply to you. If there are other challenging life circumstances you feel should be taken into account, for example, educational disruption due to moving school or illness, doing paid work during full-time undergraduate study, circumstances that limited your choice of undergraduate university, an unusual route to postgraduate study, or anything else, then you may be eligible; please detail this in the relevant section on the questionnaire
    • You have Refugee status or humanitarian protection in the UK
    • At secondary school:
      • You were in receipt of Free Schools Meals
      • You spent time in local authority care or as a Foyer resident
      • You were a young carer with caring responsibilities for a family member who could not cope without your practical support
      • You lived in one of the most deprived areas of the country. (This is defined according to the government's IMD database. You can check your postcode ranking using the government website for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.)
    • At university:
      • If you started your undergraduate course prior to August 2016: You were/are in receipt of a full or partial Maintenance Grant from the UK Government as an undergraduate
      • If you started your undergraduate course after August 2016: you were eligible for a means-tested maintenance loan from the UK Student Loans Company and your residual household income was assessed as £42,620 or less
      • You are/were in the first generation of your immediate family to do an undergraduate or Masters course
      • You are/were estranged from your immediate family or care-givers
      • You are/were a full-time undergraduate with caring responsibilities for a family member who could not cope without your practical support
      • You are/were a full-time undergraduate who is/was a single parent, lone foster parent, or lone guardian of a young person who was still in full-time education
      • You are/were disrupted in your undergraduate education due to health difficulties or bereavement of an immediate family member

Application Deadline

Not Specified

How to Apply

Interested and qualified? Go to Cambridge Trust on www.graduate.study.cam.ac.uk to apply

No separate application is required for this studentship, only the application for admission to the University of Cambridge, which must be submitted by the funding deadline specific to your course (please refer to the Postgraduate Course Directory)  

If you wish to be considered for these awards, you will be required to answer specific questions as part of the admissions application form

For more details visit: Cambridge Trust website.