Postgraduate Scholarships

Candidates applying to a DPhil in Law are eligible for this award.

This award is made possible thanks to the generosity of Mr William Asbrey, to support a promising graduate student commencing a DPhil in Law. William Asbrey won a state scholarship and came to the Hall to read Law in 1949. This was followed by National Service in the Royal Air Force. He was a solicitor in his home town of Kettering, Northamptonshire and made much of his wealth on the stock market. He was a keen follower of cricket and politics. When he died in 2015, he left his entire estate to the Hall.

Candidates applying to a DPhil in English, with a preferred focus on Old to Middle English, are eligible for this award.

Candidates applying to a DPhil in any subject considered by the College are eligible for this award.

Candidates applying to a DPhil in any course considered by the College in the Social Sciences or Humanities divisions are eligible for this award.

Candidates applying to a DPhil in any subject considered by the College are eligible for this award.

Each year a Routledge Scholarship of £6,000 is awarded to one student taking the MSc course in Comparative and International Education. Given in collaboration with the Department of Education, the scholarship is awarded on the basis of: (1) strength of academic qualifications; (2) fit between the proposed research project and the research interests of the Department and (3) financial need.

All those who apply by the March deadline are automatically considered – no separate application is necessary.

A studentship of £10,000 awarded annually to a student on the BCL. The studentship is jointly funded by the Asbrey legacy and the Law faculty. Applicants are automatically considered for the studentship by the Law Faculty.

Each year the College can support three partnership awards with the Weidenfeld-Hoffman Scholarship and Leadership Programme. The scholarship provides full fees and stipend with the College contributing to living costs each year. This is largely for Masters courses lasting one year.

Interested students can find out more information and how to apply on the Weidenfeld-Hoffman website. Our contribution to several of these awards is made possible by the generous contributions from the Julius Baer Foundation, as well as the Mitchell, Mrs Brown and Shuaib Chaudhary Funds.

The Oxford-St Edmund Hall-Scotus Ockham Scholarship is available to applicants who are applying to any master’s or DPhil course in the subject of Philosophy offered by St Edmund Hall.

The scholarship has been made possible through the support of Dr Sara Browne, Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine at the University of California, San Diego, and Chris Richey, Managing Partner of Neosho Capital.

The scholarship covers course fees and a grant for living costs. Awards are made for the full duration of your fee liability for the agreed course.

The scholarship is only tenable at St Edmund Hall. All eligible applicants will be considered for this scholarship, regardless of which college (if any) you state as your preference on the graduate application form. However, successful applicants will be transferred to St Edmund Hall in order to take up the scholarship.

Selection is expected to take place by late May 2027.

St Edmund Hall welcomes applications for the Harriet and Joan Neal Graduate Research Scholarship into Amyloid Angiopathy to study at the University of Oxford in the academic year 2027/2028 for a DPhil research degree. Michael Neal, St. Edmund Hall, (1955), created the Harriet and Joan Neal Scholarship in 2023 in memory of his mother Harriet and his wife Joan.

The successful applicant will join the Wolfson Centre for Prevention of Stroke and Dementia (CPSD) in the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences (NDCN), and undertake research on the clinical epidemiology of cerebral amyloid angiopathy under the supervision of Professor Peter Rothwell.

Eligibility and fees

Applicants will have achieved a first class, or upper second class degree in a relevant area, such as medicine, biomedical science, medical statistics or epidemiology.

The Scholarship will cover Home/ROI DPhil fees and a stipend of no less than £21,805 for three years (but excluding any College or University continuation fees that may apply from year 4 onwards). Students with overseas status should be advised that they would need to fund the remainder of their fees from alternative sources.

How to apply

Candidates should apply via the normal route outlined online and list St Edmund Hall as their first choice college. Find Oxford’s application guide for graduate applicants here. Please quote studentship reference 27NDCN04 in the appropriate field when applying.

The closing date for applications is 12pm BST Tuesday 1st December 2026.

Up to twenty scholarships are available for Chinese nationals, ordinarily resident in the mainland Peoples’ Republic of China, who are applying to start a new DPhil course at Oxford. These awards include all university and college fees, a grant for living expenses and a return flight from China to the UK. More information is available on the University website.

Awarded for one year to a student who has just completed an undergraduate programme at Columbia College and who wishes to pursue a Masters degree in the Social Sciences at St Edmund Hall.

Further information is available from Columbia College.