Beit Trust Postgraduate Scholarships

For UK Partner University applications:

1. Make your application for admission directly to one or more of the Partner Universities listed above, and only to those universities. Please apply via their websites, which will guide you.
2. Notify the relevant university, as part of your study application, that you will be approaching the Beit Trust for scholarship funding.
3. As long as the course/s you wish to pursue are available, you may apply to more than one Partner University at a time. Indeed, we recommend you do so, to increase your chances of acceptance, and to broaden the scholarship opportunities available.
4. Once you have an offer from your chosen Partner University, you should apply as early as possible to the Beit Trust for a scholarship.
5. Your application, with all the supporting documents, must be uploaded via the Scholarship application link, below in green.
6. You need three referees: Academic, Character and Employer (as appropriate). They have separate and individual forms, the link for which must be forwarded to them by you, the applicant. The link becomes available once you have submitted your scholarship application form electronically.
7. We prefer referees to use the link provided in the application form. If, however, they can only provide their reference by email, please forward them the relevant forms, which you can download below.

Download Academic Reference Form – Download Character Reference Form – Download Employer Reference Form

The completed forms must be returned directly from the referee via email to scholarships@beittrust.org.uk

For South African Partner University applications:

Due to the South African University application process opening after our Scholarship application deadline of 19 February 2024, we will accept scholarship applications for South African Universities for the year 2025/2026 without a confirmed offer.

Please follow steps 3 to 7 above. Where you are asked to upload your university offer letter, please provide instead the details of the courses and universities that you will be applying for, in PDF format. Your scholarship application will then be considered alongside the applicants for UK universities, as part of the same entry year cohort.

The Trust will sift your application as part of our selection process. If you are successful and shortlisted for an interview, you will go to the relevant Beit Trust national scholarship board.

If you are then offered a scholarship from the Trust – and not all those selected for interview receive an offer – you will then need to apply for entry to a South African Partner University (as set out in our website). You may indicate in your application that you have been awarded a Beit Scholarship.

Should you get an offer, we ask that you submit it to us as soon as you receive it. Should you not be successful in obtaining an offer, the scholarship will not, unfortunately, be available to you.

 The deadline for application for a Beit Trust Scholarship for UK and South African Universities is 19 February 2024.  

• The Trust will shortlist the most qualified for interview by our national scholarship boards in Zambia, Zimbabwe and Malawi. The boards sit during April each year.
• Resources are limited and the scholarship process competitive. Not all those interviewed will be selected for a Scholarship.
• But an interview is essential to selection. Please ensure that you are able to attend in person and in country of citizenship if you are invited to an interview.
• The Trust will notify those selected for interview of the date, time and place.
• The Trust will give particular weight to those who have:
  • – work or other professional experience;
  • – demonstrated a capacity to become leaders in their field;
  • – chosen a degree of direct and practical relevance to the development of their country;
  • – stated an intention to return to their country at the completion of their degree.

Good luck and we look forward to receiving your application.