Marshall Scholarships

Marshall Scholarships finance young Americans of high ability to study for a postgraduate degree in the United Kingdom.

The awards are mainly funded by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and are overseen by the Marshall Aid Commemoration Commission.

Founded by a 1953 Act of Parliament, and named in honour of US Secretary of State George C Marshall, the scholarships commemorate the humane ideals of the Marshall Plan and express the continuing gratitude of the British people to their American counterparts.

The one-year Marshall Scholarship is aimed at applicants who have strong reasons for wishing to study in the UK, but have a clear post-scholarship plan that would mean a one-year award would work better for them than the two-year Marshall Scholarship.

What it covers The total value of a Marshall Scholarship varies according to the circumstances (place of residence, selected university etc) of each scholar, but the figure tends, on average, to be around £30,000 a year.

This amount comprises:

• A personal allowance to cover residence and cost of living expenses at a rate of £1,065 per month;
• Payment of tuition fees;
• Travel fares to and from the United States;
• Claimable allowances, totalling approximately £3,300, including:
• A grant for books;
• A grant for approved travel in connection with studies;
• Payment of necessary daily expenses for travel between place of residence and place of study, provided the distance between the two is reasonable;
• A grant for the cost of preparation of any thesis submitted for examination, if required;
• Shipping of property to and from the United States.

Who can apply:

To be eligible for a 2020 Marshall Scholarship, candidates must:

• Be citizens of the United States of America (at the time they apply for a scholarship);
• (By the time they take up their scholarship, i.e. September 2018) hold their first undergraduate degree from an accredited four-year college or university in the United States;
• Have obtained a grade point average of not less than 3.7 on their undergraduate degree (applicants must have a GPA of 3.7 at the time of application);
• Have graduated from their first undergraduate college or university after April 2017;
• Not have studied for, or hold a degree or degree-equivalent qualification from, a British university, or GCSEs or A levels taken at school in the UK