Cambridge Trust

Aker Scholarship at University of Cambridge

Fees (International) , Maintenance , Student visa cost , Student immigration health surcharge , Other (see below)
Course length
Prospective applicant
PhD, Masters
Full Time
Required
2027/28

About

The Aker Scholarship at University of Cambridge is available to Masters and PhD applicants from Norway or with a strong link to Norway. The scholarship is tenable at any College of the University of Cambridge and in any subject excluding premium rate courses.

This fund is offered in partnership with Anne Grete Eidsvig and Kjell Inge Røkkes Charitable Foundation for Education, Norway.

Please note, you must apply via an external application to the funding partner as well as opting into this fund in the funding section of the Cambridge admissions application in order to be considered.

Award details

Course length
Fees (International) Maintenance Student visa cost Student immigration health surcharge Other (see below)

PhD only: Various additional benefits

10 (approximately)
2027/28
Yes

PhD only: The Trust will, on application, provide up to a further 6 months of maintenance funding to support writing up the PhD. 

Financial need (including Hardship) Academic merit

Successful applicants will have to agree to Aker Scholarship's terms and conditions.

Eligibility

Prospective applicant
PhD Masters
Full Time
Overseas
290 courses, See full list
Course

Applicants must be a citizen of Norway or have a strong link to Norway.

Application Process

Yes
Yes

Key dates

To ensure that they are considered for this scholarship, applicants must: 1) apply direct to the Aker Scholarship in the year before that in which they wish to start their studies in Cambridge; and 2) apply for admission to the University of Cambridge by the funding deadline specific to their course (please refer to the Postgraduate Course Directory).

The Trust’s awarding period runs from the middle of February to the end of July and is an ongoing process throughout that period. Most of our awards are made early during the months of February and March, but some of our partner funded awards involve additional processes such as interviews, which means funding decisions tend to be later from April to June. Although we cannot provide funding updates for individual applicants, the Trust will confirm on our website once we have finished issuing offers for our main scholarship programmes. Throughout the awarding period the Trust will be reallocating awards that have not been taken up. Therefore, all applicants will remain under consideration for any reallocated award for which they are eligible until the end of July. If you have not been contacted by the Trust by the end of July, you should assume that your funding application has not been successful.