Clarendon Fund

The Clarendon Fund is a global scholarship scheme at the University of Oxford. Established in 2000 and launched in 2001, annually, the scheme creates approximately 140 Clarendon Scholarships, formerly referred to as Clarendon Fund Bursaries, to university graduates from around the world and from across all subject areas, who demonstrate academic excellence and potential. In 2014, the scholarship community represents more than 50 nationalities.

The Clarendon Scholarship enables the most distinguished and competitive scholars to undertake part- or full-time degree-bearing graduate study, including taught master's degrees (i.e., M.St., M.Sc., B.C.L., M.F.E., M.Phil., M.Th.), research master's (i.e., M.Sc. by Research), and research doctorates (i.e., D.Phil.s) at the University. It fully covers tuition and college fees and provides a generous grant for living expenses.

As of 2014, there have been more than 1,300 recipients of scholarships from the Clarendon Fund, including around 350 Clarendon Scholars at Oxford in the academic year of 2014/15.

Financed by the Oxford University Press, the Clarendon Fund was established by the Council of the University of Oxford in 2000 and launched in 2001. The original aim of the Fund, as agreed by the Council, was to "assist the best overseas [graduate] students who obtain places to study in the University", regardless of financial capability and to remove any barriers between the best prospective graduate students and studying at the University of Oxford. However, in the year of the Clarendon Fund's 10th anniversary, from 1 September 2011, the ambit of the Fund and its scholarships would be expanded to include all nationalities and all fee statuses, as opposed to not only candidates with overseas fee status.

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