Course-specific funding deadlineVerified · 2026-10-02
Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program 2027/28 (Master's)
University of Cambridge · United Kingdom
- Degree level
- Master's
- Funding type
- Fully funded scholarship
- Covers
- Tuition, Living stipend, Travel, Health insurance, Visa support
- Details
- Course fee; monthly maintenance/living allowance; return travel including flights and taxi into Cambridge; student visa costs; Immigration Health Surcharge; laptop. Eligible applicants can also receive an application fee waiver for the Cambridge course application if they meet the academic entry requirements and follow the required fee-waiver process.
- Intake
- October 2027
- Deadline
- Funding deadline depends on your Cambridge course (Dec 2026 or Jan 2027). Application fee waiver requests (Ghana): 18 Nov 2026.
- Schedule
- Applications for 2027/28 opened in September 2026. The application and funding deadline depends on the selected Cambridge Master's course and is generally either in early December 2026 or early January 2027. The applicant must meet the funding deadline shown for the selected course; this can be earlier than the standard course application deadline. Do not replace this with a single universal date. Additional milestone (NOT the scholarship deadline): 18 November 2026 is the deadline to request an application-fee waiver for applicants not from a country receiving an automatic waiver. Ghana is not on the automatic-waiver list, so Ghanaian applicants who need the waiver must submit the prescribed waiver request form with supporting documents; approval is subject to Cambridge's eligibility requirements. Application fees are not waived automatically.
Fully funded Master's scholarship for African students at Cambridge.
How to Apply
Admission with funding consideration
- Use the postgraduate Course Directory to choose an eligible full-time, 9–12 month master’s course.
- Open the course and check its specific funding deadline, then select Apply Now.
- During admission, opt into funding and Mastercard Foundation Scholars consideration. There is no standalone scholarship portal.
PhD, part-time, MBA, MFin, MCL and MAcc courses are excluded. Ghana applicants needing a fee waiver should check the official conditions and 18 November 2026 date.
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