GENERAL 2022 1. Up to fifty Marshall Scholarships will be awarded in 2022. 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, Candidates are especially encouraged to consider the Commonwealth and Development Office and Marshall Partnership Universities. A course search commemorate the humane ideals of the Marshall Plan facility is available here: conceived by General George C Marshall. They express https://www.marshallscholarship.org/study-in-the- the continuing gratitude of the British people to their uk/course-search American 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 • To help Scholars gain an understanding and candidates will be expected to attend their first appreciation of contemporary Britain. choice university. Requests to change after 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: • MBA (any university) • a personal allowance to cover residence and cost of • MPhil Development Studies (University of living expenses at the rate of £1,116 per month Oxford only) (£1,369 for Scholars at Central London institutions); • MSc/MFE Financial Economics (any university) • payment of tuition fees; • MSc Global Health Science and Epidemiology • fares to and from the United States; (University of Oxford only) • Claimable allowances totalling approximately • MSc International Health and Tropical Medicine £3,300: (University of Oxford only) . a grant for books; • MSc Law and Finance (University of Oxford . a grant for approved travel in connection only) with studies; • MPP (Public Policy) (University of Oxford only) . payment of necessary daily expenses for • PG Diplomas/Certificates in any subject (any travel between place of residence and place university) of study, provided the distance between the • Degrees leading to professional qualifications in two is reasonable; medicine, dentistry, veterinary science and law . a grant for the cost of preparation of any (these degrees typically take 5 years to thesis submitted for examination, if required; complete) . shipping of property to and from the United • Degrees that require extended periods away States from the University or the UK, including joint degrees with Universities not in the UK 6. Marshall Scholarships are not subject to UK Income • Distance Learning Degrees Tax but may be considered taxable income by the US • 15 or 28 Month Masters Degrees Internal Revenue Service. • Supervised research not leading to a degree qualification ELIGIBILITY • Courses that start in January 7. To qualify for 2022 awards, candidates should: NB Candidates who list any of the qualifications not • be citizens of the United States of America (at the funded by the Marshall Commission on their time they apply for a scholarship); application will not be invited to an interview. In addition if a candidate puts Oxford, Cambridge or • (by the time they take up their scholarship ie Imperial College, King’s College London, LSE or UCL as September 2022) hold their undergraduate first their first choice institution none of these universities can degree from an accredited four-year college or be listed as second choice institutions. university in the United States; The following should also be noted: • have obtained a grade point average of not less than 3.7 on their undergraduate degree at the time • University of London: under the university’s of application (if the last grades the candidate regulations it is not possible to complete a received were Fall 2019 this GPA will be used). research MPhil degree in less than two years. • have graduated from their undergraduate first • University of Cambridge: under the university’s college or university after April 2019. regulations it is not possible to undertake two MPhil degrees at Cambridge • not have studied for, or hold a degree or degree- equivalent qualification from a British University or PARTNERSHIP MARSHALL SCHOLARSHIPS GCSE or A level qualifications undertaken in the UK. 9. The Marshall Commission has partnership Scholarships with: Candidates are only allowed to apply for either the one year or the two year Marshall Scholarship. Any University of Bath candidate found applying for both will automatically University of Birmingham be disqualified. University of Bradford University of Bristol COURSE SELECTION Cardiff University University of Dundee (College of Life Sciences) (PhD 8. The Marshall Commission does NOT fund the only) following courses: Durham University University of East Anglia • Second BA/BSc (undergraduate) Degrees University of Edinburgh University of Exeter NB: Candidates for all of these Scholarships will University of Glasgow compete in the main Marshall Scholarship Guildhall School of Music and Drama competition and if no-one of sufficient quality is University of Hull found these Scholarships will not be offered. Imperial College London Keele University 10. NIH Marshall Scholarships. These Scholarships are University of Kent jointly funded by the Marshall Commission and the King’s College London National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD. These University of Leeds Scholarships will support research students specifically University of Liverpool in the subject areas of bioscience, medicine and related London School of Economics and Political Science disciplines with a predominant application in bioscience. London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Applicants may study at any appropriate UK Institution. University of Manchester Anyone who is selected for a Marshall Scholarship in Newcastle University Biosciences and wishes to complete a PhD will be University of Nottingham eligible for this Scholarship. For more information Queen Mary University of London please see: Queen’s University Belfast https://www.marshallscholarship.org/study-in-the- University of Reading uk/partnership-scholarships Royal Holloway London Royal Northern College of Music 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 https://www.marshallscholarship.org/study-in-the- uk/marshall-partner-universities