commonwealth scholarships for students from developing commonwealth countries are offered for masters phd and splitsite phd study in the uk these scholarships are funded by the uk department for international development dfid there is a nominating agency for commonwealth scholarships in each commonwealth country in addition universities and university bodies in a number of developing commonwealth countries are invited to nominate candidates to the csc approximately 300 of these scholarships are awarded each year the csc invites around three times more nominations than scholarships available therefore nominated candidates are not guaranteed to get a scholarship there are no quotas for scholarships for any individual country candidates nominated by national nominating agencies are in competition with those nominated by universities university bodies and the same standards will be applied to applications made through either channel eligibility academic merit of the candidate quality of the proposal likely impact of the work on the development of the candidates home country for details visit rshipsdevelopingcw deadline december 3