The Crankstart Scholarships provide a programme of enhanced support for UK residents from lower-income households to undertake undergraduate study at Oxford. This is possible thanks to a generous donation by Sir Michael Moritz and Ms Harriet Heyman. The Crankstart Graduate Scholarships continue this support to graduate level, for both taught and research courses.
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Crankstart Graduate Scholarships are available to former undergraduate Crankstart scholars applying to pursue postgraduate study at Oxford. We know that the absence of funding is a key barrier to student progression to postgraduate study and the aim of these scholarships is to support Crankstart scholars’ progression from their undergraduate courses to postgraduate study.
The scholarship covers 100% of course fees and a grant for living costs. Scholarships are awarded for the duration of your fee liability.
Any applicant to a postgraduate course, who has at any time been in receipt of funding in the form of a Crankstart undergraduate scholarship, will be considered for one of these Scholarships. Graduate applications submitted by the relevant December or January course deadline are eligible. Please consult the relevant course page for individual application deadline dates.
The awards are made on the basis of academic merit and potential and cover course fees as well as providing a grant for living costs.
Your application to your course will be considered by the academics working in your proposed field of study. The department will notify you with an outcome. See our decision timeline for more details.
All applicants who receive a course offer and have at any time been in receipt of funding in the form of a Crankstart or Moritz-Heyman scholarship, will be considered for the scholarship through a cross-divisional selection process, based on academic merit and potential.
Successful candidates will be contacted with a scholarship offer.
If you are offered and accept a Crankstart Graduate Scholarship, this means your funding is now secure as long as you meet the conditions of your offer of a place to study at Oxford.
All successful applicants will be contacted by email and the majority of offers are sent out in May.
