Beit Trust offers postgraduate scholarships to South African students each year. The award of fees, tuition costs, and related expenses are paid directly to the partner institutions in the United Kingdom. The trust does not offer Ph.D. scholarships but rather it focuses on Masters degrees scholarships. Other benefits of the scholarship include a personal allowance, economy class ticket for the initial journey to the learning institution and a ticket for the return home journey.

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Application Requirements

The Beit Trust ONLY supports students who are nationals of Zambia, Zimbabwe, or Malawi, who hold permanent residence, live there, and/or intend to return to their country after their studies
Applicants (except medical and veterinary doctors) must be under 30 years of age on 31 December 2022. Relevant experience of work after completion of a first degree is strongly recommended and will count towards the award of a scholarship.
Doctors and Vets must be under 35 years of age on 31 December 2022. They should have completed 18 months of internship, and a one-year, preferably rural, posting in Zambia, Zimbabwe, or Malawi.
The Trust cannot consider applications from those who have already begun a course.
The Trust will only consider applicants with First Class/Distinction or Upper Second Class degrees (or equivalent) at undergraduate level.

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Application Steps

For UK Partner University applications:
Make your application for admission directly to one or more of the Partner Universities listed above, and only to those universities. Please apply via their websites, which will guide you.
Notify the relevant university, as part of your study application, that you will be approaching the Beit Trust for scholarship funding.
As long as the course/s you wish to pursue is available, you may apply to more than one Partner University at a time. Indeed, we recommend you do so, to increase your chances of acceptance, and to broaden the scholarship opportunities available.
Once you have an offer from your chosen Partner University, you should apply as early as possible to The Beit Trust for a scholarship.
Your application, with all the supporting documents, must be uploaded via the Scholarship application link, below in green.
You need three referees: Academic, Character, and Employer (as appropriate). They have separate and individual forms, the link for which must be forwarded to them by you, the applicant. The link becomes available once you have submitted your scholarship application form electronically.
We prefer referees to use the link provided in the application form. If, however, they can only provide their reference by email, please forward them the relevant forms, which you can download below.
Download Academic Reference Form – Download Character Reference Form – Download Employer Reference Form

The completed forms must be returned directly from the referee via email to scholarships@beittrust.org.uk

For South African Partner University applications:

Due to the South African University application process opening after our Scholarship application deadline of 20 February 2023, we will accept scholarship applications for South African Universities for the year 2024/2025 without a confirmed offer.

Please follow steps 3 to 7 above. Where you are asked to upload your university offer letter, please provide instead the details of the courses and universities that you will be applying for, in PDF format. Your scholarship application will then be considered alongside the applicants for UK universities, as part of the same entry-year cohort.

The Trust will sift your application as part of our selection process. If you are successful and shortlisted for an interview, you will go to the relevant Beit Trust national selection Board.

If you are then offered a scholarship from the Trust – and not all those selected for interview receive an offer – you will then need to apply for entry to a South African Partner University (as set out in our website). You may indicate in your application that you have been awarded a Beit Scholarship.

Should you get an offer, we ask that you submit it to us as soon as you receive it. Should you not be successful in obtaining an offer, the scholarship will not, unfortunately, be available to you.

The deadline for application for a Beit Trust Scholarship for UK and South African Universities is 20 February 2023.
The Trust will shortlist the most qualified for interview by our national Scholarship advisory boards in Zambia, Zimbabwe and Malawi .Theboards sits in April each year.
Resources are limited and the scholarship process competitive. Not all those interviewed will be selected for a Scholarship.
But an interview is essential to selection. Please ensure that you are able to attend in person and in country of citizenship if you are invited to an interview.
The Trust will notify those selected for interview of the date, time and place.
The Trust will give particular weight to those who have:
– work or other professional experience;
– demonstrated a capacity to become leaders in their field;
– chosen a degree of direct and practical relevance to the development of their country;
– stated an intention to return to their country at the completion of their degree.
Please visit the website for all the relevant links and information. (https://beittrust.org.uk/beit-trust-scholarships/)

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