Graduate Horizons
How to apply
You do not need to wait for an offer — the scholarship application can run alongside admission.
- Optionally attend an information session (announced by email) to learn what materials you'll need
- Complete the online Google Form application in full (requires a Gmail login) by the round's deadline — the most recent confirmed round closed Sunday 24 August 2025, 5pm BST, for applications to Master's programmes starting in 2026
- All applicants are contacted with the outcome regardless of result, and everyone receives an information packet to help with graduate applications
- If selected, receive up to six months of 1:1 mentorship from a current Oxford graduate student or alum, plus workshops (personal statement, CV, university selection) and information sessions with scholarship-providing universities
- Aim to submit at least four Master's applications across the programme's 25+ partner universities worldwide (Africa, Europe, UK, North America, Middle East)
How they select
application form · evidence of circumstances
There is no interview — the decision is made on documents. On most routes there are no subject entrance exams either: the main hurdle on the way into university is proving your level of English. The exceptions are medicine, dentistry and creative courses, where tests and portfolios do appear.
Dates
Ask before you apply
We do not fill in the gaps for the institution. Here is what its own page leaves unclear — these are normal questions, everyone asks them.
- What happens to the payments if I am granted refugee status mid-year?
Who to write to: study@refugeeledresearch.org
If this scheme is not for you
- See the full list of schemes — it has a filter for your status and for whether student finance is available to you.
- Check whether you are entitled to student finance — if it is, a scholarship stops being the only road.
- Foundation year and Access to HE — routes for people who only have a school certificate.
- Education hub — where to start if you have not chosen a route yet.
About the institution
Run by the Refugee-Led Research Hub (RLRH), part of the Refugee Studies Centre at the University of Oxford, but the programme supports applications to 25+ partner universities worldwide, not to Oxford exclusively. Applicants must identify as affected by displacement (refugee, asylum seeker, IDP, stateless person, or similar) and have completed, or be in their final year of, a Bachelor's degree in any field, and be able to study in English or French; the page does not describe a Home/Overseas fee-status assessment since it is a global, university-agnostic support scheme.
There are adults, but they are a minority. 21.4% of students are over 30 and 37.5% are over 25 — an average picture for a UK university.
Source
Every fact on this page we opened and read on the institution's own site, rather than taking it from an aggregator. Checked on: 22 August 2026.
The scheme page on the institution's site →
Application-support/mentoring programme, not a funding scheme. Recurring annually since 2023; existence of scheme is verified, current-cycle details are not.