This page is part of the offer-holders section for students who have been offered an undergraduate place at Christ's College and contains financial information for overseas students starting a course in October 2024. Please read it alongside your offer letter.
Cambridge Commonwealth, European & International Trust Awards
(2024 entry - application needed)
The Cambridge Commonwealth, European and International Trust Awards are for overseas students (including EU) in financial need. The application form will be emailed to overseas offer holders for 2024 at the end of January, and if you would like to be considered for an award, you complete and upload the form via this upload tool by 9 February 2024.
- If you do not require financial support in order to study at Cambridge, please do not apply for a scholarship. You will only be eligible for a scholarship if you have financial need.
- Further information is on the Cambridge Trusts website. We recommend that you read the key points for undergraduate applicants and the scholarship search, enables you to find awards that you may be eligible for. In most cases there are no additional application forms to complete.
- When completing the form
- please note that the College fee for 2024 entry is £11,300. This is included in the annual tuition fee given in the box at the beginning of your offer letter.
- for the personal statement it's fine to include both information on your financial circumstances and other academic factors to "sell" yourself, however it is essential to be clear about your financial circumstances.
- If you plan to apply for a Christ's College International Award, please leave the Date of Decision, Tenure (years) and the Annual Value (£) fields blank. We only need to detail for applications to other scholarship/bursary providers.
- Page 5 to the end of the form (Part II) will be completed by our Director of Admissions so don't worry about that section.
- Once you've made your application, do bear in mind that different students will hear back at different times - it's nothing to worry about.
- Please note that there is also a Rowan Williams Cambridge Studentship for students from an area of instability or zone of conflict and, or have been, at risk of discrimination, persecution, suffering, violence or other abuse of your human rights. This has an earlier application deadline of 31 January 2024. Information and the appliction form for this is here.
- If you are applying for a Rowan Williams Cambridge Studentship, please email admissions@christs.cam.ac.uk to request your University Student No (USN) - it is requested on the form but you do not already know it. Your Application Number is your UCAS Personal ID.
- If you are applying for a Rowan Williams Cambridge Studentship, please email admissions@christs.cam.ac.uk to request your University Student No (USN) - it is requested on the form but you do not already know it. Your Application Number is your UCAS Personal ID.
Christ's College Awards (2024 entry)
- Students with overseas fee status (including EU) are encouraged to apply to be considered for a Christ's College International Award. Applications are open from when you receive your offer letter, and the deadline to apply will be 09:00 in the morning (UK time) on 1 March. We send a reminder email in the second half of February. Further information and the application form is available on the Christ's International Award Applications page.
- There is a Sukanya Rajaratnam Commonwealth Award for a female student who is resident in a Commonwealth Country in Asia, with preference for a student from Sri Lanka. The Commonwealth countries in Asia are Bangladesh, Brunei, India, Malaysia, Maldives, Pakistan, Singapore and Sri Lanka. All offer holders who are eligible for the Sukanya Rajaratnam Commonwealth Award will automatically be considered (there is no separate application process for this).
- There is a Li Ka Shing Foundation Lord Sandberg Memorial Scholarship for students resident in Hong Kong. There is no separate application process for this.
- Once you have started your course at Christ's, small grants will be available to cover a range of activities once you have started your course:
- Lab work
- Summer internships
- Travel
- Hardship
- Extracurricular activities such as sports, music, theatre, art
Further information, including how to apply, will be made available after you have started your course at Christ's.
Other Awards (2024 entry)
- There are Prince Philip Scholarships for applicants from Hong Kong: These awards are for permanent residents of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. If you applied for one of these when you applied to Cambridge, details are on the Prince Philip Scholarship website.
- There's a SJI Foundation Christ's College Cambridge Scholarship for students who attended SJI Schools in Singapore.
- This external scholarship website may be useful to research opportunities for students from a range of countries.
- If you have a diagnosed disability, you may be eligible for the International Disabled Students' Fund (IDS Fund).
Financial Guarantee Form and evidence document(s) - 2024 entry
For overseas students, we have sent a financial guarantee form with your offer letter. Or, for students who applied last year, we sent the financial guarantee form with your January update information.
| Circumstances | Deadline for Financial Guarantee Form & Evidence document(s) |
|---|---|
| If you will fund your studies 100% through private finance | 6 June 2024 |
| If you have already organised your funding | 6 June 2024 |
| If you are applying for scholarships | If you are applying for scholarships, you will need to wait for the outcome of your applications before returning the financial guarantee form and evidence. If you are not able to send your financial guarantee by 6 June then you can return it by 30 June instead. |
If you think that you will have difficulty in meeting the deadline, please email us at admissions@christs.cam.ac.uk as soon as possible.
The document you plan to upload should be saved on your computer with file name:
14 - Subject - SURNAME First Name - Financial Guarantee Form and Evidence - UCAS Personal ID
e.g. for the fictional Angela Wiseman, it might be
14 - Natural Sciences (Biological) - WISEMAN Angela - Financial Guarantee - 1072833381
Note that there is a space before and after each hypen, and there is a number at the beginning.
The link to upload your form and evidence is here:
Notes about the form and evidence document:
- If your evidence document is not in English, please send both the original and a translation into English. We are happy for you to complete the translation yourself, and will let you know if we have any questions.
- Please check that your evidence document(s) shows that you will have sufficient funds for the full duration of your course. It’s expected that international students should have evidence that they have funds to cover one year (e.g. savings) and expected annual income to cover the remainder (e.g. salary or other funds). So you don't need to have an amount equivalent to several years' tuition in the bank right now but we do need to see that you will also be able to sustain the cost of studying and living in Cambridge after you have used the funds for the first year. The funds for future years could include confirmation of an external scholarship awarded, parental income etc, but should not be assets in the form of occupied family property.
- Signatures on the form must be real signatures so please sign and then copy the form.
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