The Gates Cambridge Scholarship programme was established in October 2000 by a donation of US$210m from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to the University of Cambridge - this is the largest ever single donation to a UK university.
Each year Gates Cambridge offers around 75 full-cost scholarships to outstanding applicants from countries outside the UK to pursue a postgraduate degree in almost any subject available at the University of Cambridge. Approximately two-thirds of these awards will be offered to PhD students, with approximately 20 awards available in the US round and 55 available in the International round.

Learn more about the Rhodes Scholarship, which provides support for two or three years of graduate study at Oxford University (taught and/or research program).

Learn more about the Churchill Scholarship, which offers American students a fully-funded one year of graduate study/research in the sciences, engineering, or mathematics at the University of Cambridge.