Black Academic Futures – University of Oxford

The Black Academic Futures Scholarships offer UK Black and Mixed-Black students financial support to pursue graduate study at Oxford.

Thanks to the generous support of funding partners across the University and colleges, the scholarship is expanding in scope and scale for the 2022-23 academic year, with more dedicated awards available for eligible candidates than ever before. To date, funding to make up to 30 awards has been offered by partners from across the University and colleges. The scholarships are open to all academic subjects.

Each scholarship will cover your course fees in full and will provide you a grant for living costs at the UKRI rate (at least £15,609 per year). Awards are made for the full duration of your fee liability for your course.

Eligibility

Up to 30 scholarships are available for applicants who are ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom, who are of Black or Mixed-Black ethnicity and who hold an offer for either a taught or research postgraduate degree, starting in the 2022-23 academic year. This includes all full-time and part-time DPhil and master’s courses.

These scholarships support students across the University and are open to all subject areas, with some funding dedicated to supporting students on specific courses.

Applying for the Black Academic Futures scholarships

To apply for the Black Academic Futures Scholarship, all you have to do is submit your completed graduate course application, including ethnicity information, by either the December or January deadline (whichever is relevant for your course) and you will automatically be considered. You do not need to submit any additional documents and there is no separate scholarship application form for these awards.

If you are eligible for these scholarships, you will be considered automatically regardless of which college (if any) you state as your preference on your graduate application form. However, some of these awards are only tenable at specific colleges and successful applicants will be transferred to the relevant college in order to take up the scholarship if applicable.

What happens after you apply?

1. Your application to your course will be considered by the academics working in your proposed field of study. The department will notify you with an outcome. See our decision timeline for more details.
2. All applicants who are receive a course offer and are eligible for Black Academic Futures will be assessed for the scholarship through a cross-divisional selection process, based on academic merit and potential.
3. Successful candidates will be contacted with a scholarship offer. Final college placements will also be confirmed for awards that are tenable at specific colleges only.
4. If you are offered, and accept, a Black Academic Futures Scholarship, this means your funding is now secure as long as you meet the conditions of your offer of a place to study at Oxford.

All successful applicants will be contacted by email and the majority of offers are sent out in May.

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