Financial support and scholarships available for overseas students

The University and colleges have some rather limited funds to help overseas students at the undergraduate level. Most support is in the form of part-cost, means tested bursaries. The College has two fully-funded scholarships: Blyth Cambridge Scholarship (for Canadians); and African Scholarship scheme.

You cannot apply for funding until after you have been assessed academically and offered a place at Pembroke. At that stage the College will send you an application form to complete if you wish to apply for financial support, either from the College or from the Cambridge Trusts.

The college works with the Trusts to supplement its funding of overseas students where both bodies consider it appropriate. Please note that students are almost always informed of any college support at or near the same time as they hear from the Trusts. Apart from the African Scholarship, there are not normally any separate college bursaries or scholarships available for overseas students.

Cambridge Trusts

The Cambridge Trusts were established by the University of Cambridge to provide financial assistance for outstanding students from outside the UK who, without financial help, would be unable to take up their places at Cambridge. In certain cases (but not all cases) if the Trust has made an award, then the College might also be in a position to contribute towards a students cost. In January we will send you an application form for the Cambridge European Trust. It is very important that you clearly state your financial situation (this will not affect your place here) as it will be for the College to decide whether to put you forward for an award and what, if any, financial packet it might be able to offer you.

Please remember that you can only apply to the Trust before starting your course and it will not be possible to make an application to the Trust once you have started your course.

Please also consult the University Admission pages for other University scholarships.

Other financial support

Pembroke also has separate funds to help with such things as course-related activities and extra-curricular interests these are available to all students and full detials are available here.