Marshall Scholarships

Marshall Scholarships finance young Americans of high ability to study for a postgraduate degree in the United Kingdom. The awards are mainly funded by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and are overseen by the Marshall Aid Commemoration Commission. Founded by a 1953 Act of Parliament, and named in honour of US Secretary of State George C Marshall, the scholarships commemorate the humane ideals of the Marshall Plan and express the continuing gratitude of the British people to their American counterparts. One and Two year scholarships are available: The one-year Marshall Scholarship is aimed at applicants who have strong reasons for wishing to study in the UK, but have a clear post-scholarship plan that would mean a one-year award would work better for them than the two-year Marshall Scholarship. The Two Year Scholarship is suitable for applicants who wish to complete two one-year Masters courses in the UK at the same or different Universities, or can be used toward PhD studies. The total value of a Marshall Scholarship varies according to the circumstances of each scholar, but the figure tends, on average, to be around £30,000 a year.