Merton College is offering two Domus B Graduate Scholarships in 2006. The Scholarships are intended to assist Home and EU students of outstanding academic excellence who for financial reasons would not otherwise be able to study at the University of Oxford. The Scholarships provide College and University fees and a maintenance grant of £9,250. Subject to satisfactory progress, the Scholarships will be tenable for three years in the case of direct entry doctoral programmes and four in cases where a preparatory Master's course is required before the doctorate. Scholars are guaranteed College single accommodation (if required) for the first year, after which they can enter the graduate room ballot. Scholars must meet the costs of this accommodation themselves.
The competition is open to graduates of any university who can demonstrate that they satisfy all the following conditions. They should: have a first class honours degree; ordinarily be resident in the UK or EU; have not done more than two years of postgraduate study or research; and have, by 1 September 2006, been accepted to begin, but have not yet begun, a course of study leading to the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Oxford in October 2006 in any of the subjects normally acceptable for graduate study at the College, except the M.B.A., M.Sc. in Financial Economics, and M.Sc. in Management Studies (for subjects not considered see http://www.merton.ox.ac.uk/prospectus/prospectus.html), and have no other funding which would allow them to take up this offer.
The College will consider applications from current Oxford students who are completing Master's programmes in the summer of 2006 but candidates who have already begun their D.Phil. are ineligible. The closing date for receipt of applications for this competition is 1 September 2006. Applicants who have not been accepted as doctoral students by the relevant Faculty or Department of the University by 1 September 2006 will be rejected. Further particulars, including details of the applications process, can be downloaded from http://www.merton.ox.ac.uk/Vacancies/index.htm, or, in case of difficulty, may be obtained from the Admissions Officer, Merton College, Oxford, OX1 4JD (tel. 01865 276299, fax 01865 286500, e-mail julie.gerhardi@admin.merton.ox.ac.uk).