Fully Funded Queen Elizabeth Commonwealth Scholarship (QECS) 2025 for Master’s Degree Study
Fully Funded Queen Elizabeth Commonwealth Scholarship (QECS) 2025
Location: Varies
Deadline: 14 January 2025
About the Scholarship
Unlock the future with the Queen Elizabeth Commonwealth Scholarship (QECS) – a unique opportunity for applicants to study a two-year Master’s degree in a low or middle-income Commonwealth country. This opportunity not only allows applicants to study abroad, but to also build global connections and drive change in their communities. Aimed at students who are committed to making notable impact, the scholarships are a life-changing opportunity to experience a new country and culture, to broaden horizons, and to build a network that will last a lifetime. Apply now and join a legacy of excellence.
Through cultural exchange and academic collaboration, Queen Elizabeth Commonwealth Scholars help bring about positive change and find solutions to the shared challenges faced, both in their home countries and those that host them. As an active part of the Commonwealth network, scholars will help shape its future. Each year there are two opportunities to apply for QECS – cycle 1 opens in November/December and cycle 2 opens in March/April. Applicants only need to submit one application, but they are welcome to apply more than once if there is another country you are interested in studying in. Study for a two-year master’s degree at an Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU) member university in a low or middle-income country.
What does the scholarship cover?
- Fully-funded tuition fees
- Living allowance (stipend) for duration of award
- Return economy flights to host country
- Once-off arrival allowance
- Research Support Grant (on request only and is subject to approval)
Participating Universities and Available Programmes
University of Eswatini (Eswatini)
- MA African Languages and Linguistics
- MA History
- MEd Educational Foundations and Management
- MSc Family Nurse Practice
- MSc Agricultural Extension
- MSc Animal Science
- MSc Computer Science
- MSc Food Science and Technology
- MSc Mathematics
- MSc Textiles
University of the West Indies (Jamaica)
Programmes (across 4 landed campuses)
Cave Hill Campus – Barbados
- LLM Competition Law and Policy
- MPH Public Health
- MSc Natural Resource & Environmental Management (Water Resource Management)
- MSc Gender Studies
- MSc Social Work
Five Islands Campus – Antigua and Barbuda
- MA Teaching Exceptional Children
- MSc Corporate Finance
Mona Campus – Jamaica
- MA Cultural Studies
- MSc Biomedical Research
- MSc Natural Resource Management
- MSc Social Work
- MSc Sport Management
St. Augustine Campus – Trinidad and Tobago
- MSc Aviation Management
- MSc Data Science
- MSc Food Science and Technology
- MSc Renewable Energy Technology
- MSc Tropical Crop Protection
Technical University of Kenya (Kenya)
- MSc Applied Parasitology
- MSc Computational Chemistry
- MSc Construction Project Management
- MSc Electrical and Electronic Engineering
- MSc Food Science and Technology
- MSc Information and Knowledge Management
- MSc Land Administration
- MSc Medical Physics
- MSc Physics
- MTech Manufacturing Engineering
Universiti Putra Malaysia (Malaysia)
- MSc Accounting
- MSc Agribusiness
- MSc Agricultural Policy
- MSc Community Education and Development
- MSc Economics
- MSc Gender and Development
- MSc Halal Products Management
- MSc Management
- MSc Marketing
- MSc Social Psychology
- MSc Sustainable Recreation and Ecotourism
- MSc Tourism
- MSc Youth Studies
State University of Zanzibar (Tanzania)
- MBA in Finance
- MEd Youth Gender and Development
- MSc Chemistry
- MSc Information Technology
- MSc Natural Resource Management and Climate Change
Makerere University (Uganda)
- MSc Civil Engineering
- MSc Food Safety and Quality Management
- MSc Renewable Energy
About Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU)
ACU is a global network of universities with a shared commitment to building a better world through international collaboration in higher education. As the world’s first and oldest international university network, they have been bringing universities together from across the Commonwealth for more than 100 years. ACU strategy reinforces their fundamental belief that global challenges can only be solved through international collaboration, and its collective commitment to achieving the UN SDGs through higher education.
The ACU is the world’s first and oldest international university network, established in 1913 to provide a forum for universities to share information, knowledge and ideas. In 1912, on the initiative of the University of London, representatives of 53 universities assembled in London, UK, to hold a Congress of Universities of the Empire. The office of the Universities Bureau of the British Empire was accordingly opened in London in 1913. In 1948, the Bureau’s name was changed to the Association of Universities of the British Commonwealth.
In 1963, the Association received a Royal Charter under its new name: the Association of Commonwealth Universities. In 1986, her Majesty the Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, became Patron of the ACU. ACU advocates for a world in which higher education transcends borders, strengthens societies, fosters innovation, and lifts the lives of people throughout the Commonwealth and beyond. Its priority is to champion the power of higher education to improve lives and to support the long-term vitality of universities. ACU mission is to build a better world through higher education.
How to apply
After clicking on the official application link, you are directed to the application website
- Look through the list of countries and universities hosting scholarships in this cycle.
- Visit the relevant university website for more information on your chosen course using the links included
- Complete and submit a QECS application for your chosen university/course by clicking the ‘Apply now’ button. Once you’ve clicked apply, you’ll be directed to a log in page. If you don’t already have a myACU account, click get ‘get started’ in the right hand corner of the page to start your application.
- Submit an application to your chosen university for admission to your chosen course.
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