Candidates wishing to apply to study at OCIS Master’s and PhD Scholarships must be either:
Ordinarily living in the United Kingdom and from a Muslim community (with priority to those from a financially underprivileged household), or
Be a citizen of, and ordinarily resident in, one of the below countries in Asia and Africa:
Afghanistan
India
Pakistan
Albania
Indonesia
Palestine
Algeria
Iran
Qatar
Azerbaijan
Iraq
Saudi Arabia
Bahrain
Jordan
Senegal
Bangladesh
Kazakhstan
Sierra Leone
Benin
Kuwait
Somalia
Brunei Darussalam
Kyrgyzstan
Sudan
Burkina Faso
Lebanon
Suriname
Cameroon
Libya
Syrian Arab Republic
Chad
Malaysia
Tajikistan
Comoros
Maldives
Togo
Côte d’Ivoire
Mali
Tunisia
Djibouti
Mauritania
Turkey
Egypt
Morocco
Turkmenistan
Gabon
Mozambique
Uganda
The Gambia
Niger
United Arab Emirates
Guinea
Nigeria
Uzbekistan
Guyana
Oman
Yemen
Be applying to start a new full-time master’s or DPhil course at Oxford
Scholars should intend to return to their home country after the completion of their studies.
Academic excellence is crucial to the applicant’s chance to win a scholarship.
Applicants should be planning to carry out the study in a field derived from or of relevance to the Islamic tradition, or which is of importance and/or benefit to the Muslim world.
The scholarship is not for postgraduate certificate or postgraduate diploma courses, part-time courses, or non-matriculated courses.
To qualify for consideration for this scholarship, candidates must be successful in receiving an offer for a place on their course after consideration of applications obtained by the relevant January deadline.