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COURSES
ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA

ENGLISH LANGUAGE
REQUIREMENT

Applicants
COURSES will need to select three different master's courses. These can be three different courses at
the same institution, or three similar courses across up to three different universities.
REFERENCES

Choose your three courses carefully. You will not be able to change your course choices after
WORK EXPERIENCE
submitting your application, unless you are granted permission to do so at the interview stage. You
ONLINE APPLICATION
will need to apply separately to your selected courses directly via the university. To be awarded a
SYSTEM
scholarship, you must get an unconditional offer for one of your course choices by 11 July 2019.
INTERVIEWS
We recommend selecting three similar courses at three different universities to increase the likelihood
that PLACEMENT TIMELINE
you will gain entry into one of them.
- WHAT TO EXPECT?
Please note that the course titles do not have to match exactly, but all three courses should be similar
in content. You should select courses that reflect your current or future career goals.

In order to be eligible, the courses you choose must be:

Full-time
Start in the autumn term (usually September/October)
Taught master's (i.e. not research-focused MRes programmes)
Lead to a master’s degree qualification
Based in the UK

Courses cannot be:

Distance learning

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Part-time
Less than nine months in duration
More than 12 months in duration
PhD or DPhil are not permitted
Taught with more than one month of study outside the UK

Use our course finder (http://www.chevening.org/find-a-course) to browse eligible master’s degrees at every
university across the UK.

PLEASE NOTE:

MBA fee cap: There is a fee cap applied to MBA programmes that requires applicants to cover any
additional cost over £18,000.

London-based campuses: Applicants who wish to undertake a course offered at a London-based

campus of a UK university that is based elsewhere in the country will only be permitted to do so if
that exact course is unavailable at the university’s main campus. If the same course is offered at
both the main campus and the London campus of a university, applicants will be expected to attend
the main university campus.

Accuracy of courses: The Secretariat endeavours to provide an accurate list of courses during the
application process. However, as courses can change from one year to the next, candidates are
responsible for checking that the courses they list in their application meet the criteria for
Chevening funding. The Secretariat completes final checks on courses that candidates have selected
following the interview period, and any courses that do not meet the criteria will be deemed
ineligible.

Missing courses: If you believe that a course is eligible but does not appear in the online application
system, you must submit your missing course query (http://www.chevening.org/find-a-course) no later than
12:00 GMT (noon) on Thursday, 1 November in order for it to be considered ahead of applications
closing.

Pre-sessional courses

Applicants are not permitted to enrol on pre-sessional courses to fulfil their university’s English
language requirement or any other conditions of a university offer.

If you enrol on a pre-sessional course to remove a condition of your university offer, the Secretariat
will learn of this via the university and your award will no longer be tenable for that course. Please
note that this can happen at any stage of the process, meaning that there could be no time for you to

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switch to another of your course choices, even where you hold an unconditional offer. This would then
result in your Chevening Award offer being withdrawn.

Some courses, typically in the fields of law, maths and science, may include mandatory introductory
elements that can be referred to by the university as ‘pre-sessional’ courses. If this applies to one of
your chosen courses, please notify your Chevening programme officer as soon as possible and they
will advise you as to whether the course is permitted.

You should not enrol on optional pre-sessional courses prior to your official course start date, even if
you are willing to pay for these courses yourself. A vital part of the Chevening journey is the pre-
departure briefing given at the British embassy or high commission in your home country, which you
would miss if you were already in the UK.

Please note that the Secretariat’s administrative processes cannot be sped up to enable you to come
to the UK early (for example, the production of the final award letter cannot be expedited), and the
Secretariat will not provide immigration advice for any period outside the official dates of your
Chevening Award.

Unconditional offers

The Secretariat will need to see evidence of an unconditional offer from one of your three course
choices in order to finalise your Chevening Award.

We can accept a conditional offer if the only outstanding condition is financial, i.e. the need to pay a
deposit for the course. There can be no further caveats on the offer, including the need to send
original documents, such as transcripts, to the university. You should ensure that you have met all of
the university’s requirements well in advance of Chevening’s deadline so that you are in a position to
send us evidence of your unconditional offer by this date.

You are not permitted to meet a university’s English language requirement by enrolling on, signing up
for, or paying a fee for a pre-sessional English course.

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