WHO IS ELIGIBLE AND HOW MANY PEOPLE APPLY?

To be eligible to apply for a Kennedy Scholarship you must:

• be a British citizen who is also resident in the UK
• have attended a secondary school in the UK
• either
  (a) be a recent graduate of a UK university (if you graduated more that 3 years before the year in which the Scholarship is to begin you will not be eligible)
  
  or
  (b) be studying for a first or higher degree and have spent two of the last five years at a UK university
• have graduated before taking up the Scholarship.

PhD students

If you are currently studying for a PhD in the UK you may use a Kennedy Scholarship to carry out research (as a Visiting Fellow) for an academic year during the course of your doctoral study, but Scholarships will not be awarded to post-doctoral candidates who wish to pursue further research in their own field.

How many people apply?

For the 2008-2009 Scholarships, 163 high quality applications were received. They came from students in 30 different universities in the UK.

28 applicants were shortlisted for interview and 10 Scholarships were awarded. The selected students (6 men and 4 women) came from 5 different universities: Cambridge, Edinburgh, LSE, Oxford and UCL and were admitted to programmes of study at Harvard GSAS, Harvard Law School, Harvard Kennedy School & MIT.