Scholarship Guides for International Students
Everything ScholarWing has written, in one place: 75+ scholarship guides across the UK, USA, Germany, Europe, Asia and Africa, plus the document and test guides that decide whether your application actually wins. All free, all written without agents or consultants.
Scholarship Guides by Country
Each guide states the real award value, the eligibility rules that quietly disqualify people, and an honest figure for what you would still have to pay yourself.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- Chevening ScholarshipFully funded · Master's · needs 2 years' work experience
- Commonwealth ScholarshipFully funded · Master's & PhD
- Gates CambridgeFully funded · highly competitive
- Clarendon Fund, Oxford200+ awards · no separate application
- Reach OxfordRare fully funded undergraduate route
- Felix ScholarshipOxford, SOAS & Reading · India + low-income countries
- GREAT Scholarships£10,000 · Pakistan, Nigeria, Kenya, India + more
- Westminster Full ScholarshipGenuinely full: fees, housing, living, flights
- UCL Global Master's£15,000 · need-based
- Sheffield InternationalAutomatic · no application form
- Bristol Think BigTuition discount · one form covers all awards
- Warwick Chancellor'sPhD only · full fees + stipend + £5,000 grant
- Edinburgh Global ResearchPhD · fee differential only
- Queen Elizabeth Commonwealth
- Ruth First, DurhamSouthern Africa
🇺🇸 United States
- Fulbright ScholarshipFully funded · Master's & PhD
- Harvard University aidUnder $100k income = free, travel included
- MIT financial aidNeed-blind, including transfers
- Dartmouth College aidZero loans + travel allowance
- Amherst College aidNeed-blind · no merit scholarships
- Berea College100% funded · ~30 intl places a year
- Knight-Hennessy, StanfordAny Stanford graduate degree
- Clark Global ScholarsLeadership-based · $15k–25k a year
- Kotzen Scholarship, Simmons
- AAUW FellowshipsWomen only
- Yale Young Global ScholarsHigh school summer programme
- Marshall ScholarshipUS citizens only
🇩🇪 Germany & Austria
- DAAD ScholarshipGermany's largest funding body
- DAAD Helmut-Schmidt Programme
- Heinrich Böll FoundationGreen politics · activism counts
- Friedrich Ebert FoundationSocial democracy
- Rosa Luxemburg StiftungPolitical engagement required · German B2
- Study in Germany free
- Study in Austria free
🇪🇺 Europe
- Erasmus MundusStudy in 2–3 countries on one award
- ETH Zurich ESOPCHF 13,500/semester + full tuition waiver
- NL Scholarship (Holland)€5,000 · 41 institutions
- Radboud ScholarshipTuition cut to €2,694 + visa & insurance
- Eiffel Excellence, France
- ENS International SelectionUnder 26 · one attempt ever
- Swedish Institute SISGP
- Stipendium Hungaricum
- ARES Belgium
- VLIR-UOS BelgiumOne application per year only
- Italian Government MAECI
- Spanish MAEC-AECIDSpanish language mandatory
- Camões Institute, Portugal
- Polish NAWA Banach
- Russian Government & Open Doors
🌏 Asia
- CSC China Scholarship
- MEXT JapanNo IELTS for many programmes
- GKS KoreaIncludes a free year of Korean
- KAIST ScholarshipAutomatic with admission · 94% funded
- Türkiye BurslariLowest GPA bar of the major awards
- YTB–IsDB Joint Scholarship
- ASEAN Scholarship, Singapore
- Brunei Government (BDGS)
- Malaysian MIS & MTCP
- TWAS FellowshipsScience · South–South
- All Asian-student scholarships
🌍 Africa & Development
- Mastercard Foundation Scholars
- Edinburgh Mastercard FoundationOnline + on-campus tracks
- CMU-Africa Mastercard
- Mandela Rhodes Scholarship
- Mo Ibrahim Foundation
- African Union PAU30-day application window only
- AfDB JADS
- DAFI UNHCRRefugee students
- Africa–London–Nagasaki Fund
- Ireland–Africa Fellows
- Al-Azhar, Egypt
- All African-student scholarships
🌐 Global & Development Agencies
- Joint Japan/World Bank (JJ/WBGSP)Needs 3 years' development work
- Rotary Peace Fellowship
- Hubert Humphrey Fellowship
- IsDB Merit Scholarship57 OIC countries
- Aga Khan Foundation50% grant + 50% loan
- Said FoundationSyria, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine
- Beit Trust
- SCO Digi-Face
🇦🇺 Australia, NZ & Americas
Scholarships by Field of Study
Funding that fits your subject, with the programmes that reward it most.
🔬 Science, Tech & Health
⚖️ Social Sciences & Business
🎨 Arts, Humanities & Design
🎓 By Study Level
Guides for Your Situation
Most students rule themselves out too early. These guides cover the cases people assume are hopeless.
📉 If Your Profile Has Gaps
👤 By Who You Are
Writing Your Application Documents
Your grades open the door; these documents decide what happens next. Each guide pairs with a free generator.
Statement of Purpose
The 5-paragraph structure committees actually respond to.
Personal Statement
For UK and US applications.
Motivation Letter
DAAD, Erasmus and European awards.
Research Proposal
PhD proposals and thesis pre-proposals.
Study Plan
Required by GKS, CSC and MEXT.
Academic CV
What panels look for, and what they skip.
Reference Letters
Brief your referees instead of hoping.
Cover Letter
When an award asks for one.
Letter of Intent
Different from an SOP — here's how.
Budget Plan
For awards that ask you to cost your studies.
Development Impact Statement
Chevening, Commonwealth, Westminster.
Document Checklist by Country
What each country actually asks for.
Tests, Paperwork & Visas
The administrative steps that derail applications more often than weak essays do.
IELTS & TOEFL Preparation
A realistic study strategy.
IELTS vs TOEFL vs Duolingo
Which test each scholarship accepts.
IELTS Score Requirements
Minimum bands, scholarship by scholarship.
IELTS in 30 Days
When the deadline will not wait.
MOI Certificate
Skip IELTS where universities accept it.
Attestation & Apostille
Pakistan-specific walkthrough.
Interview Preparation
The questions panels repeat every year.
Student Visa Guide
What to do once you win.
Visa Process After Selection
Timelines and proof-of-funds rules.
Acceptance Letter
Replying to an offer properly.
Application Strategy
How to choose, when to start, and what to do when an application fails.
Work out what you actually qualify for
Start with the Eligibility Checker, then read how to choose the right scholarship and PhD vs Master's strategy.
Build your timeline backwards from the deadline
Check the live deadline tracker and the application timeline. Referees need two months, not two weeks.
Find a supervisor before you apply
For PhD and research awards, read finding a supervisor and emailing a professor.
Know the true cost before you commit
Hidden costs of a "fully funded" scholarship covers the visa fees, deposits and flights that awards quietly leave out.
Apply to several, not one
See application tips and how to win scholarships. For Chevening specifically, read the university choice strategy.
Reapply properly if it does not work
Reapplying after rejection explains what to change — and what to leave alone.
Start With Your Own Profile
Enter your GPA, field and country, and see exactly which of these scholarships you qualify for — then build the documents with our free generators.
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