Financial information for overseas offer holders (2025 entry)

The Cambridge Commonwealth, European and International Trust Awards are for overseas students (including EU) in financial need. The application form will be emailed to overseas offer holders for 2025 at the end of January, and if you would like to be considered for an award, you complete and upload the form via this upload tool by 14 February 2025, 12 noon UK time.  

If you do not require financial support in order to study at Cambridge, please do not apply for a scholarship. You will only be eligible for a scholarship if you have financial need.

Further information is on the Cambridge Trusts website. We recommend that you read the key points for undergraduate applicants and the scholarship search, enables you to find awards that you may be eligible for. In most cases there are no additional application forms to complete.

Advice for completing the form

The College fee for 2025 entry is £11,900. This is included in the annual tuition fee given in the box at the beginning of your offer letter.

In your personal statement it's fine to include both information on your financial circumstances and other academic factors to "sell" yourself, however it is essential to be clear about your financial circumstances.

If you plan to apply for a Christ's College International Award, please leave the Date of Decision, Tenure (years) and the Annual Value (£) fields blank. We only need the detail for applications to other scholarship/bursary providers.

Page 5 to the end of the form (Part II) will be completed by our Director of Admissions so don't worry about that section.
 
Once you've made your application, do bear in mind that different students will hear back at different times - it's nothing to worry about. 

The Rowan Williams Cambridge Studentship is for students from an area of instability or zone of conflict and, or have been, at risk of discrimination, persecution, suffering, violence or other abuse of your human rights. 

If you would like to apply, please complete the application form as soon as possible. 

Do not be alarmed that the deadline on the form/website is 31 January - the board is aware that offers were only sent on 30 January and they have confirmed that they will be able to consider your application as long as you return the form as soon as possible and certainly by the 14 February deadline that we have advised. 

Information and the application form for this is here.

Important: If you are applying for a Rowan Williams Cambridge Studentship, please email admissions@christs.cam.ac.uk to request your University Student No (USN) - it is requested on the form but you do not already know it. Your Application Number is your UCAS Personal ID.

Students with overseas fee status (including EU) are encouraged to apply to be considered for a Christ's College International Award. Applications will be open shortly after you receive your offer letter - there may be a delay of a week or so but we will email you once the application form is available. 

The deadline to apply will be 24 February 2025. 

Further information is available on the Christ's International Award Applications page.
 

There is a Sukanya Rajaratnam Award for an outstanding international woman student. This award is for women resident in Sri Lanka (applying to study any subject) and women applying to study Architeture, Design or History of Art. 

All students who are eligible for the Sukanya Rajaratnam Award will automatically be considered (there is no separate application process for this).

Christ's has the Li Ka Shing Foundation Lord Sandberg Memorial Scholarship for students resident in Hong Kong. There is no separate application process for this. 

You may also be aware of the university-wide Prince Philip Scholarships for applicants from Hong Kong. These awards are for permanent residents of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. If you applied for one of these when you applied to Cambridge, details are on the Prince Philip Scholarship website. 

Christ’s offers all undergraduates a flexible grant of £1,200 which can be used throughout your degree. Whilst there is a spending limit of £400 per academic year, it can be used across a range of activities including 

> Study aids 
> Academic activities  
> Vacation study 
> Language courses 
> Extra-curricular activities such as sports, music, theatre, art

We advise students to discuss how best to use the grant each year with their Tutor and/or Director of Studies. It can't be transferred to anything else so students are encouraged to use it. 

There are also separate small grants for specific activities / help such as

> Travel 
> Summer research projects 
> Sports participation 
> Hardship 
> Humanities and creative arts

Further information, including how to apply, will be made available after you have started your course at Christ's.

There's a SJI Foundation Christ's College Cambridge Scholarship for students who attended SJI Schools in Singapore. 

This external scholarship website may be useful to research opportunities for students from a range of countries.

Do also look into awards that may be advertised in your country. 
 
If you have a diagnosed disability, you may be eligible for the International Disabled Students' Fund (IDS Fund). 

The document you plan to upload should be saved on your computer with file name:
14 - Subject - SURNAME First Name - Financial Guarantee Form and Evidence - UCAS Personal ID

e.g. for the fictional Angela Wiseman, it might be
14 - Natural Sciences (Biological) - WISEMAN Angela - Financial Guarantee - 1072833381

Note that there is a space before and after each hyphen, and there is a number at the beginning.

The link to upload your form and evidence is here:

Financial Guarantee & Evidence upload tool

Please check that your evidence document(s) shows that you will have sufficient funds for the full duration of your course. It’s expected that international students should have evidence that they have funds to cover one year (e.g. savings) and expected annual income to cover the remainder (e.g. salary or other funds). So you don't need to have an amount equivalent to several years' tuition in the bank right now but we do need to see that you will also be able to sustain the cost of studying and living in Cambridge after you have used the funds for the first year. The funds for future years could include confirmation of an external scholarship awarded, parental income etc, but should not be assets in the form of occupied family property.

If your evidence document is not in English, please send both the original and a translation into English. We are happy for you to complete the translation yourself, and will let you know if we have any questions. 
 
Signatures on the form must be real signatures so please sign and then copy the form

As part of your visa application you must be able to prove that you have sufficient funds to cover your course fees, as stated in your CAS.

You must ensure that your financial evidence meets the specific student visa application requirements. You can use the financial evidence checker tool to understand the requirements for your circumstances.

There are further details about preparing for your student visa application on the University website.