Rotary Foundation Scholarship Programme is available for students wanting to Study in USA. Rotary District 1090 in the Thames Valley, UK, is looking to award one scholarship for post-graduate study in the academic year 2019/20. This scholarship is for USD 30,000 to study in District 1090 . The field of study is either in the area of Peace and Conflict Prevention/Resolution or Economic and Community Development.  Applicants must be from a low or middle-income country.

Rotary Graduate Scholarships are funded by Rotary Foundation Global Grants and all applications for Global Grants must fit one or more of the Areas of Focus. Scholarships can be for a single year, or for up to four years, of academic graduate full time study. Moreover, the scholarship is not applicable for unsupervised research, medical internship or residency, or for full time employment. Similarly, students in receipt of a Rotary Scholarship are not prohibited from applying to or receiving funds from other scholarship schemes.

Determining Eligibility for the Scholarship

This scholarship is for students from outside the UK, who are planning to take up a place on a graduate course within District 1090. To be eligible:

• Applicants must be from (a citizen of) a low to middle income country, as defined by the UK Government’s Department of International Development.
• Also, applicants should get a place, or expect to receive an offer to study on a graduate course in 2019/20. Applicants must expect to be in receipt of an offer by April 2019.
• The planned university course must fit either under Rotary’s first Areas of Focus “Peace and Conflict Prevention/Resolution” or the sixth Area of Focus “Economic and Community Development”.
• Applicants must be planning to study at a university within Rotary District 1090. This covers Brunel, Bucks New, Oxford, Oxford Brookes and Reading Universities.
• Likewise, applicants must be planning to start on a new course in the academic year 2019/20.
• Rotarians are not eligible to apply. Applicants may not be related to a Rotarian (partner, child or grandchild of a current Rotarian or someone who has been a Rotarian in the last three years). Global Grants is funding this scholarship. Also, this fits with the rule that Rotarians and their families may not be beneficiaries of a Global Grant.

Applicants should complete the online application form and submit this before the deadline of 5pm on 31st March 2019.