China Scholarship Council

The China Scholarship Council is a non-profit institution affiliated with the Ministry of Education. Its objective is to provide financial assistance to Chinese citizens wishing to study abroad and to foreign citizens wishing to study in China.

It aims to develop educational, scientific, technological, and cultural exchanges, and economic and trade cooperation between China and other countries, to strengthen the friendship and understanding between Chinese people and the people of all other countries, and to promote world peace and the socialist modernization drive in China.

The China Scholarship Council works with the Cambridge Trust to offer both the CSC Cambridge Scholarship (for PhD applicants), and the CSC Cambridge Masters Scholarship.  Both awards can be made in a range of academic subjects.

A separate external application is required for these scholarships

CSC Cambridge Masters Scholarship

To ensure that they are considered for this scholarship, applicants must:

Applicants should have a degree from a recognised university in the People's Republic of China.  Each year the China Scholarship Council sets a range of priority subjects.  This award is not available to candidates for the degrees of MBA or MFin.

CSC Cambridge Scholarship (for PhD applicants)

To ensure that they are considered for this scholarship, applicants must:

Applicants should have a degree from a recognised university in the People's Republic of China.  Each year the China Scholarship Council sets a range of priority subjects.

Note for students

You are encouraged to use the Trust's scholarships search to find all the awards for which you may be eligible.