The conditions of award, application and selection procedures are set out below. GENERAL 1. Up to fifty Marshall Scholarships will be awarded in 2020. They are tenable at any British university and for study in any discipline at graduate level, leading to the MARSHALL award of a British university degree. Conditions SCHOLARSHIPS governing One Year Scholarships are set out in a separate set of Rules. 2020 2. Candidates are invited to indicate two preferred universities, although the Marshall Commission reserves RULES FOR CANDIDATES WISHING TO the right to decide on final placement. Expressions of APPLY FOR A TWO YEAR MARSHALL interest in studying at universities other than Oxford, SCHOLARSHIP ONLY. Cambridge and London are particularly welcomed. Candidates are especially encouraged to consider the Marshall Scholarships finance young Americans of high Marshall Partnership Universities. A course search ability to study for a degree in the United Kingdom in a facility is available here: system of higher education recognised for its excellence. http://www.marshallscholarship.org/studyuk/findacourse Founded by a 1953 Act of Parliament, Marshall NB: The selection of Scholars is based on our Scholarships are mainly funded by the Foreign and published criteria: Commonwealth Office and commemorate the humane http://www.marshallscholarship.org/applications/crit ideals of the Marshall Plan conceived by General eria This includes, under the academic criteria, a George C Marshall. They express the continuing range of factors, including a candidate’s choice of gratitude of the British people to their American course, choice of university, and academic and counterparts. personal aptitude. Selected candidates will be expected to attend their first choice university. The objectives of the Marshall Scholarships are: Requests to change after selection will not be considered. • To enable intellectually distinguished young Americans, their country’s future leaders, to study in 3. Candidates do not need to have applied for or be the UK. accepted at a British university before they apply for a Marshall Scholarship. • To help Scholars gain an understanding and appreciation of contemporary Britain. Once a Scholar has been selected the Commission endeavours to secure placement at the first choice • To contribute to the advancement of knowledge in university and course but in the end the decision to science, technology, the humanities and social accept a Scholar is with the university and not with the sciences and the creative arts at Britain’s centres of Commission. The Marshall Commission cannot, academic excellence. therefore, guarantee that a Marshall Scholar will be admitted to the university of their choice. In the case of • To motivate Scholars to act as ambassadors from Scholars placed at Oxford or Cambridge the the USA to the UK and vice versa throughout their Commission will identify the College at which a Scholar lives thus strengthening British American should seek a place. understanding. 4. Final selection of candidates is made by eight regional • To promote the personal and academic fulfilment of selection panels in the US. each Scholar. AWARDS In appointing Scholars the Selectors will look for candidates who have the potential to excel as Scholars, 5. The total value of a Marshall Scholarship varies as leaders and as contributors to improved UK-US according to the circumstances (place of residence, understanding. Assessment will be based on academic selected university, etc.) of each Scholar but the figure merit, leadership potential and ambassadorial potential. tends on average to be about £38,000 a year. This comprises: Details of the criteria used for selection can be found at http://www.marshallscholarship.org/applications/criteria. • a personal allowance to cover residence and cost of • MSc/MFE Financial Economics (any university) living expenses at the rate of £1084 per month • MSc Global Health Science and Epidemiology (£1,330 for Scholars at Central London institutions); (University of Oxford only) • payment of tuition fees; • MSc International Health and Tropical Medicine • fares to and from the United States; (University of Oxford only) • Claimable allowances totalling approximately • MSc Law and Finance (University of Oxford £3,300: only) . a grant for books; • MPP (Public Policy) (University of Oxford only) . a grant for approved travel in connection • PG Diplomas/Certificates in any subject (any with studies; university) . payment of necessary daily expenses for • Degrees leading to professional qualifications in travel between place of residence and place medicine, dentistry, veterinary science and law of study, provided the distance between the (these degrees typically take 5 years to two is reasonable; complete) . a grant for the cost of preparation of any • Degrees that require extended periods away thesis submitted for examination, if required; from the University or the UK, including joint . shipping of property to and from the United degrees with Universities not in the UK States • Distance Learning Degrees • Supervised research not leading to a degree 6. Marshall Scholarships are not subject to UK Income qualification Tax but may be considered taxable income by the US Internal Revenue Service. NB Candidates who list any of the qualifications not funded by the Marshall Commission on their ELIGIBILITY application will not be invited to an interview. 7. To qualify for 2020 awards, candidates should: In addition if a candidate puts Oxford, Cambridge or Imperial College, King’s College London, LSE or UCL as • be citizens of the United States of America (at the their first choice institution none of these universities can time they apply for a scholarship); be listed as second choice institutions. • (by the time they take up their scholarship ie The following should also be noted: September 2020) hold their first undergraduate degree from an accredited four-year college or • University of London: under the university’s university in the United States; regulations it is not possible to complete a research MPhil degree in less than two years. • have obtained a grade point average of not less than 3.7 on their undergraduate degree. • University of Cambridge: under the university’s regulations it is not possible to undertake two • have graduated from their first undergraduate MPhil degrees at Cambridge college or university after April 2017. • not have studied for, or hold a degree or degree- PARTNERSHIP MARSHALL SCHOLARSHIPS equivalent qualification from a British University or GCSE or A level qualifications undertaken in the 9. The Marshall Commission has partnership UK. Scholarships with: Candidates are only allowed to apply for either the University of Bath one year or the two year Marshall Scholarship. Any University of Birmingham candidate found applying for both will automatically University of Bradford be disqualified. University of Bristol Cardiff University COURSE SELECTION University of Dundee (College of Life Sciences) (PhD only) 8. The Marshall Commission does NOT fund the Durham University following courses: University of East Anglia University of Edinburgh • Second BA/BSc (undergraduate) Degrees University of Exeter • MBA (any university) University of Glasgow • MPhil Development Studies (University of Goldsmiths, University of London Oxford only) Guildhall School of Music and Drama 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 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 Academy of Music http://www.marshallscholarship.org/applications/nih. Royal Holloway London Royal Northern College of Music (PhD only) Note: to apply for this programme you will need to School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) apply for both the Marshall Scholarship and the NIH University of St Andrew Programme. If you wish to apply for a non- University of Sheffield Oxford/Cambridge please indicate on your NIH University of Southampton application that you are applying for a Marshall University of Surrey Scholarship. University of Sussex University College London University of Warwick University of York To be considered for the Partnership Marshall Scholarships you must include any of the above institutions on your application form as your first choice. For further information on these Scholarships please see http://www.marshallscholarship.org/applications/ partnerscholarships In addition the Marshall Commission has partnerships with the following Oxford and Cambridge Colleges: Balliol College, Oxford Christ Church, Oxford Christ’s College, Cambridge Emmanuel College, Cambridge Exeter College, Oxford Gonville and Caius