GENERAL 2021 1. Up to fifty Marshall Scholarships will be awarded in 2021. They are tenable at any British university and for study in any discipline at graduate level, leading to the RULES FOR CANDIDATES WISHING TO award of a British university degree. Conditions APPLY FOR A TWO YEAR MARSHALL governing One Year Scholarships are set out in a SCHOLARSHIP ONLY. separate set of Rules. Marshall Scholarships finance young Americans of high 2. Candidates are invited to indicate two preferred ability to study for a degree in the United Kingdom in a universities, although the Marshall Commission reserves system of higher education recognised for its excellence. the right to decide on final placement. Expressions of interest in studying at universities other than Oxford, Founded by a 1953 Act of Parliament, Marshall Cambridge and London are particularly welcomed. Scholarships are mainly funded by the Foreign and Candidates are especially encouraged to consider the Commonwealth Office and commemorate the humane Marshall Partnership Universities. A course search ideals of the Marshall Plan conceived by General facility is available here: George C Marshall. They express the continuing https://www.marshallscholarship.org/study-in-the- gratitude of the British people to their American uk/course-search counterparts. NB: The selection of Scholars is based on our The objectives of the Marshall Scholarships are: published criteria: https://www.marshallscholarship.org/apply/criteria- • To enable intellectually distinguished young and-who-is-eligible This includes, under the Americans, their country’s future leaders, to study in academic criteria, a range of factors, including a the UK. candidate’s choice of course, choice of university, and academic and personal aptitude. Selected candidates will be expected to attend their first • To help Scholars gain an understanding and choice university. Requests to change after appreciation of contemporary Britain. selection will not be considered. • To contribute to the advancement of knowledge in 3. Candidates do not need to have applied for or be science, technology, the humanities and social accepted at a British university before they apply for a sciences and the creative arts at Britain’s centres of Marshall Scholarship. academic excellence. Once a Scholar has been selected the Commission • To motivate Scholars to act as ambassadors from endeavours to secure placement at the first choice the USA to the UK and vice versa throughout their university and course but in the end the decision to lives thus strengthening British American accept a Scholar is with the university and not with the understanding. Commission. The Marshall Commission cannot, therefore, guarantee that a Marshall Scholar will be • To promote the personal and academic fulfilment of admitted to the university of their choice. In the case of each Scholar. Scholars placed at Oxford or Cambridge the Commission will identify the College at which a Scholar In appointing Scholars the Selectors will look for should seek a place. candidates who have the potential to excel as Scholars, as leaders and as contributors to improved UK-US 4. Final selection of candidates is made by eight regional understanding. Assessment will be based on academic selection panels in the US. merit, leadership potential and ambassadorial potential. Details of the criteria used for selection can be found at AWARDS http://www.marshallscholarship.org/applications/criteria. The conditions of award, application and selection 5. The total value of a Marshall Scholarship varies procedures are set out below. according to the circumstances (place of residence, selected university, etc.) of each Scholar but the figure tends on average to be about £38,000 a year. This comprises: 8. The Marshall Commission does NOT fund the • a personal allowance to cover residence and cost of following courses: living expenses at the rate of £1,110 per month (£1,362 for Scholars at Central London institutions); • Second BA/BSc (undergraduate) Degrees • payment of tuition fees; • MBA (any university) • fares to and from the United States; • MPhil Development Studies (University of • Claimable allowances totalling approximately Oxford only) £3,300: • MSc/MFE Financial Economics (any university) ▪ a grant for books; • MSc Global Health Science and Epidemiology ▪ a grant for approved travel in connection (University of Oxford only) with studies; • MSc International Health and Tropical Medicine ▪ payment of necessary daily expenses for (University of Oxford only) travel between place of residence and place • MSc Law and Finance (University of Oxford of study, provided the distance between the only) two is reasonable; • MPP (Public Policy) (University of Oxford only) ▪ a grant for the cost of preparation of any • PG Diplomas/Certificates in any subject (any thesis submitted for examination, if required; university) ▪ shipping of property to and from the United • Degrees leading to professional qualifications in States medicine, dentistry, veterinary science and law (these degrees typically take 5 years to 6. Marshall Scholarships are not subject to UK Income complete) Tax but may be considered taxable income by the US • Degrees that require extended periods away Internal Revenue Service. from the University or the UK, including joint degrees with Universities not in the UK ELIGIBILITY • Distance Learning Degrees • Supervised research not leading to a degree 7. To qualify for 2021 awards, candidates should: qualification • be citizens of the United States of America (at the NB Candidates who list any of the qualifications not time they apply for a scholarship); funded by the Marshall Commission on their application will not be invited to an interview. • (by the time they take up their scholarship ie September 2021) hold their first undergraduate In addition if a candidate puts Oxford, Cambridge or degree from an accredited four-year college or Imperial College, King’s College London, LSE or UCL as university in the United States; their first choice institution none of these universities can be listed as second choice institutions. • have obtained a grade point average of not less than 3.7 on their undergraduate degree. The following should also be noted: • have graduated from their first undergraduate • University of London: under the university’s college or university after April 2018. regulations it is not possible to complete a research MPhil degree in less than two years. • not have studied for, or hold a degree or degree- equivalent qualification from a British University or • University of Cambridge: under the university’s GCSE or A level qualifications undertaken in the regulations it is not possible to undertake two UK. MPhil degrees at Cambridge Candidates who hold dual citizenship with any other country are eligible. They must, however, be normally resident in the US and have lived in the US before they started their undergraduate degree. Candidates are only allowed to apply for either the one year or the two year Marshall Scholarship. Any candidate found applying for both will automatically be disqualified. COURSE SELECTION PARTNERSHIP MARSHALL SCHOLARSHIPS King’s College, Cambridge Lincoln College, Oxford 9. The Marshall Commission has partnership Magdalen College, Oxford (DPhil only) Scholarships with: Magdalene College, Cambridge New College, Oxford University of Bath Newnham College, Cambridge University of Birmingham Nuffield College, Oxford University of Bradford Oriel College, Oxford University of Bristol Pembroke College, Cambridge Cardiff University Peterhouse, Cambridge University of Dundee (College of Life Sciences) (PhD Somerville College, Oxford only) St John’s College, Cambridge Durham University Trinity College, Cambridge University of East Anglia Trinity College, Oxford University of Edinburgh University College, Oxford University of Exeter University of Glasgow NB: Candidates for all of these Scholarships will Guildhall School of Music and Drama compete in the main Marshall Scholarship Imperial College London competition and if no-one of sufficient quality is Keele University found these Scholarships will not be offered. University of Kent King’s College London 10. NIH Marshall Scholarships. These Scholarships are University of Leeds jointly funded by the Marshall Commission and the University of Liverpool National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD. These London School of Economics and Political Science Scholarships will support research students specifically London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in the subject areas of bioscience, medicine and related University of Manchester disciplines with a predominant application in bioscience. Newcastle University Applicants may study at any appropriate UK Institution. University of Nottingham Anyone who is selected for a Marshall Scholarship in Queen Mary University of London Biosciences and wishes to complete a PhD will be Queen’s University Belfast eligible for this Scholarship. For more information University of Reading please see: Royal Holloway London https://www.marshallscholarship.org/study-in-the- Royal Northern College of Music uk/partnership-scholarships School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) University of St Andrew Note: to apply for this programme you will need to University of Sheffield apply for both the Marshall Scholarship and the NIH University of Southampton Programme. If you wish to apply for a non- University of Surrey Oxford/Cambridge please indicate on your NIH University of Sussex application