The Indian Government has invited applicants from India for Commonwealth Scholarships, to study in the United Kingdom, which will be available effective October 2008.

Altogether there are 60 awards, out of which 35 are for Master’s level students or clinical training (one year or six months, respectively). Another 25 awards are for three-year PhD program applicants.

Most of the important subjects of study are covered under this award, such as:

Humanities and Social Sciences, Engineering and Technology, Agriculture and Science.

The scholarship covers tuition and fees, living expenses and travel expenses – both to and from UK.

Full details of the Scholarship program can be obtained at the following site:
http://education.nic.in/scho_announcements/ukcommonwealth2008-scheme.asp

Last day for applying is 28th October 2007.

Please note that the Scholarship administration and selection of applicants is done by the Ministry of HRD, Dept. of Higher Education, Govt. of India only. Any queries related to these should be directly addressed to the Section Officer, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Department of Higher Education, External Scholarship Division, ES.4 Section, A-2/W-4, Curzon Road Barracks, Kasturba Gandhi Marg, New Delhi 110 001.