Saint Andrew's Society of the State of New York Scholarship
The Society offers scholarships to the total value of $70,000 to enable Scottish graduates to study for a year in the United States.
Key facts
Up to two scholarships will be offered of up to $35,000 each.
Preference will be given to candidates who have no previous experience of the United States and for whom a period of study there can be expected to be a life-changing experience. Selection will be on the basis of an all-round assessment, including character, experience and academic achievement.
The selection process is administered for the Society by the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland, who will convene the Selection Committee and make recommendations to the Society.
The scholarship will not cover all costs. Find out more about other possible sources of funding.
Eligibility and availability
Candidates must be Scottish by birth or descent, and will be expected to have current knowledge of Scotland and Scottish current affairs and of the Scottish tradition generally. The Society expects its scholars to be good ambassadors for Scotland.
Candidates must also be:
- either graduates of a Scottish university, or of Oxford or Cambridge, who have completed their first degree course (so as to be qualified to graduate) not earlier than 2022;
- or students of a Scottish university, or of Oxford or Cambridge, who expect to complete their first-degree course (so as to be qualified to graduate) in 2023.
Please read the further particulars for full details of the Saint Andrews Scholarship.
Eligibility and availability
Please email Andrew Forrest on a.d.forrest@stir.ac.uk for the documentation, the application form and the referee form.
Applications must be accompanied by references from two academic referees written on, or annexed to, the form entitled 'Confidential Report by Referee'. The form must be signed and dated by the applicant and the referee and emailed to a.d.forrest@stir.ac.uk
Closing date for applications is midnight on Wednesday 8
Applications should NOT be submitted directly to the Saint Andrew’s Society or to the Carnegie Trust.
Nomination
Applicants will be notified by the end of March 2023 if they have been selected for interview and the interviews will take place in Edinburgh in the second half of April 2023 (exact date to be confirmed). Candidates will be informed whether they have been successful as soon as possible thereafter.