Commonwealth Master’s Scholarships 2027–2028
Commonwealth Scholarship Commission and UK FCDO
United Kingdom
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Commonwealth Scholarship Commission and UK FCDO
United Kingdom
Full opportunity detailsEPFL and CYD Campus / armasuisse
Switzerland · On Site · On Site
Full opportunity detailsRufford Foundation
Uganda
Full opportunity detailsUniversity of Pretoria and Mastercard Foundation
Pretoria, South Africa
Full opportunity detailsDAAD and Leipzig University
Leipzig, Germany
Full opportunity detailsHarvard Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA · On Site
Full opportunity detailsAmerican Association of University Women (AAUW)
United States
Full opportunity detailsHarvard Radcliffe Institute
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA · On Site
Full opportunity detailsSchwarzman Scholars and Tsinghua University
Beijing, China
Full opportunity detailsWorld Trade Organization (WTO)
Geneva, Switzerland · On Site
Full opportunity detailsUNESCO and the Government of Japan
Japan · On Site
Full opportunity detailsWellcome
Uganda and other eligible low- and middle-income countries
Full opportunity detailsUnited Nations Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea
New York, USA + participating host institution · On Site
Full opportunity detailsUNESCO AfriMAB and GRÓ Land Restoration Training Programme
Iceland · On Site
Full opportunity detailsWorld Bank Group
Worldwide — headquarters and country office rotations · On Site
Full opportunity detailsUniversity of British Columbia and Mastercard Foundation
Vancouver, Canada · On Site
Full opportunity detailsUK Government — Chevening
United Kingdom · On Site
Full opportunity detailsKnight-Hennessy Scholars at Stanford University
Stanford, California, United States · On Site
Full opportunity detailsRhodes Trust — University of Oxford
Oxford, United Kingdom · On Site
Full opportunity detailsWorld Bank Group
Washington, DC or a World Bank country office · On Site
Full opportunity detailsMcCall MacBain Scholarships at McGill University
Montréal, Canada · On Site
Full opportunity detailsGerman Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
Germany · On Site
Full opportunity detailsWorld Bank Group
Worldwide and selected remote roles · On Site
Full opportunity detailsCambridge, Massachusetts, USA · On Site
Open to applicants of every nationality, including Uganda. Applicants must be advanced PhD candidates or recent PhD recipients in an eligible social-science field with regional expertise outside the United States and Canada. Completed doctorates must have been awarded on or after 1 August 2025; candidates must finish by 30 June 2027.
A two-year residential fellowship for outstanding early-career social scientists. Academy Scholars receive a US$80,000 annual stipend plus US$6,000 in research support each year and work at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Applicants from Uganda and all other countries are eligible when their work combines strong social-science training with expertise in a region outside the United States and Canada. Deadline: 18 September 2026 at 11:59 p.m. US Eastern Time. Recommendation letters are due 28 September 2026.