UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
A deadline shown here is a research aid. The provider's current call controls the real deadline.
Chevening is a leadership award before it is an academic one. The work-experience threshold rules out fresh graduates entirely, and the essays are weighted towards what you have already done rather than what you plan to study.
| Academic | An undergraduate degree at the standard required for a UK master's. |
| Language | A Chevening-accepted English qualification, required before the scholarship is confirmed. |
| Other | At least 2,800 hours of work experience, which is roughly two years full time. Recipients must return to their home country for a minimum of two years after the course. |
A single online application on chevening.org, with no home-government nomination step. You apply to three UK master's courses separately and must hold an unconditional offer from one of them by the stated deadline.
We keep past cycles rather than deleting them. Historical dates are the best predictor of when the next call opens.
| Year | Status | Opens | Deadline | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026/2027 | Closed | — | — | Chevening has consistently opened in August and closed in early November. This round has closed. |
| 2027/2028 | Expected | — | — | Expect the next round to open around August 2027 and close in early November, on the pattern of recent years. Chevening publishes exact dates on its own site. |
This call has not opened yet. These awards are recorded as open, so they are the ones worth your time today.
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