Beit Trust 2025 Postgraduate Scholarships
The Beit Trust 2025 Postgraduate Scholarships for Africans will be open for applications starting from September 2024. African students are invited to apply for a postgraduate scholarship position to study in the UK or South African with a fully funded support by the Beit Trust.
The Beit Trust is a partnership between 8 UK universities and 3 South African Universities to sponsor individuals with the passion to pursue a degree program.
The Beit Trust partnership between the universities helps share cost thereby increasing the number of scholarships that can be funded by the Beit Trust. This enables the Trust to share costs, and to increase the number of scholarships it can fund.
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Scholarship Summary:
Scholarship Sponsor(s): The Beit Trust
Scholarships to be taken at: UK or South Africa
Scholarship Type: Full Scholarship
Scholarship level: Postgraduate (Masters)
Scholarship Worth: See Benefits (below)
Nationality: Africans
Requirement and Eligibility Criteria for the Beit Trust Postgraduate Scholarship:
- By Act of Parliament, the Beit Trust supports ONLY students who are nationals of Zambia, Zimbabwe or Malawi, who hold permanent residence, live there and/or intend to return to their country after their studies.
- Academic Capability: we look first at those with a Distinction or Merit (Upper Second Class) in their undergraduate degree. Those with Lower Second Class or Credit/Pass degrees, while not ineligible to apply, will struggle to beat the competition.
- Those who already hold a postgraduate degree are likely only in the most exceptional cases to be considered for a Beit Postgraduate Scholarship.
- Professional Work Experience: important in the award of a scholarship. This should be relevant to the proposed field of study.
- Additional eligibility info can be gathered from the official website of the scholarship programme.
Benefits for the Beit Trust Postgraduate Scholarship:
- Fees, tuition costs and related academic expenses.
- A personal allowance, index-linked in accordance from an independent authority, covering maintenance support.
- Other allowances are paid for arrival, a laptop and departure.
- Economy class tickets to the place of study and on final return.
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Application Procedure for the Beit Trust Postgraduate Scholarship (How to Apply):
Interested applicants for the Beit Trust Postgraduate Scholarship 2025/26 are to apply by following the procedures as outlined:
- Apply to any of the partner university in the UK and South Africa and be offered admission to study a postgraduate course.
- Notify the partner university that he/she will be approaching the Beit Trust for scholarship funding and should also indicate the work experience.
- Notify the Trust once application has been submitted to the partner university and also tell the trust which course is being applied for.
- Confirm their nationality to the Trust; Zambians are to send their application form for confirmation to scholarships@beittrust.org.uk
- Applicants from Zimbabwe and Malawi are to send theirs to africa@beittrust.org.uk.
- Applications, with all the supporting documents are to be uploaded online via the scholarship application link before the application deadline.
Document Requirements:
- A signed Medical Certificate Form from your doctor. This will need to be completed before you begin the application process below. Please download the form here: Medical Certificate Form
- A copy of your offer letter from a UK Partner University/s; or a PDF document detailing the university/s and course/s you will apply to at South African Partner University/s.
- Degree results.
- Curriculum Vitae
- A personal statement(no longer than 500 words) to explain in your own words how you think a postgraduate degree will benefit your country and its development.
- A clear recent photograph of yourself: not a passport photo, but something that shows you to your best advantage.
- A clear copy of your valid passport, showing date of issue and expiry.
Application Deadline: February 2025
For more information Visit the official website
