Scholarship application guides

Free guides to what each programme asks, checked against official sources and linked to them.

• Essays and statementsChevening essay questions: what the four essays askThe Chevening application asks for four essays, each read against one published area: leadership and influence, networking, your course and university choice, and your career plan.
• InterviewsChevening interview questions: the published themes and how to practiseChevening does not publish a list of interview questions.
• Essays and statementsCommonwealth Scholarship Development Impact statement: the four parts explainedThe Development Impact statement is the part of a Commonwealth Master's or Shared Scholarship application where you show how your UK master's will benefit your home country.
• Essays and statementsGates Cambridge scholarship statements: what the four questions askGates Cambridge funding is not a separate scholarship form: you apply for a Cambridge graduate course and, in the same application, answer four short Gates statements.
• Essays and statementsRhodes Scholarship personal statement: the three guiding questions explainedThe Rhodes personal statement is one essay that must carry three guiding questions without breaking into parts.
• Eligibility and deadlinesHow to apply for the Clarendon Scholarship at OxfordThere is no Clarendon application form.
• Essays and statementsFulbright Foreign Student personal statement and study objective explainedEvery Fulbright Foreign Student application centres on two essays: a Study/Research Objective and a Personal Statement.
• Essays and statementsKnight-Hennessy short answers and essay: what each prompt asksThe Knight-Hennessy application asks for one essay and three short answers, each with a tight word limit.
• Essays and statementsErasmus Mundus motivation letter: what each consortium asks and how to plan itThere is no single Erasmus Mundus motivation letter.
• Essays and statementsDAAD EPOS motivation letter: one letter for up to three coursesThe DAAD EPOS scholarship, for Development-Related Postgraduate Courses in Germany, asks for a single motivation letter that goes, unchanged, to every course you apply to.
• Essays and statementsStipendium Hungaricum motivation letter: format, content and the two stagesThe Stipendium Hungaricum master's application asks for a motivation letter addressed to the Hungarian university you hope to join.
• Essays and statementsSwedish Institute Scholarships for Global Professionals: the motivation letterThe Swedish Institute Scholarships for Global Professionals (SISGP) fund master's study in Sweden for people with work and leadership experience.
• Essays and statementsTürkiye Bursları letter of intent: what it covers and how it is evaluatedThe Türkiye Bursları (Türkiye Scholarships) master's application includes a letter of intent, also called a statement of purpose, written inside the online system TBBS.
• Essays and statementsMEXT research plan: what each section of the form asksMany applicants search for a MEXT research plan sample, but the Field of Study and Research Plan is a short form with set sections, and copying someone else's plan is exactly what MEXT punishes.
• Essays and statementsGKS personal statement and study plan: what each form asksThe Global Korea Scholarship for graduate degrees (GKS-G) asks for two written documents: a Personal Statement (Form 2) and a Study Plan (Form 3).
• Essays and statementsChinese Government Scholarship study plan: what it must coverThe Chinese Government Scholarship asks every postgraduate applicant for a study plan or research proposal, and it is the one document where you speak in your own words.
• Essays and statementsSchwarzman Scholars leadership essay: limits, criteria and how to prepareThe leadership essay is the longest written piece in the Schwarzman Scholars application, and its exact prompt appears only inside the application portal.
• InterviewsAustralia Awards interview questions: format, themes and how to prepareAustralia Awards does not publish a bank of interview questions, but Australia Awards Africa has published preparation material that describes the format, the panel and the themes it explores.