Marshall Scholarship
> Intent-to-Apply Deadline: July 17, 2025 (Google Form; see instructions below)
> Campus Deadline: August 17, 2025
> Campus Endorsement Decision: Early September
> National Deadline: September 16, 2025
Important: Only applicants who submit an 'Intent to Apply' form by their respective deadlines will be considered for endorsement. No exceptions will be made.
Eligibility requirements:
- U.S. citizen, or dual citizen who has resided in the U.S. for a period of time in addition to the period when they were studying for their undergraduate degree
- Undergraduate degree from accredited four-year college or university in the U.S. by September 2025 and graduated from their first undergraduate college after April 2022
- Minimum GPA of 3.7
- No prior study for or degree or degree-equivalent qualification from British universities/institutions
Award summary and conditions: The Marshall Scholarship finances American students of high ability to study for a degree in the United Kingdom. Up to 50 scholars are selected each year to study at the graduate level at a UK institution in any field. The scholarship pays for university fees, living expenses, annual book grant, thesis grant, research and daily travel grants, fares to and from the U.S. and, where applicable, partial support of a dependent spouse.
Candidates are selected who have the potential to excel as scholars, leaders and as contributors to improved UK-U.S. understanding. Assessment will be based on academic merit, leadership potential and ambassadorial potential.
One-Year Marshall Scholarship: The one-year scholarship is aimed at applicants who wish to study in the UK and have convincing reasons to pursue a one-year scholarship rather than the traditional two-year Marshall Scholarship. To be eligible for the one-year scholarship applicants must have a clear post-scholarship plan. This should demonstrate what the applicant plans to do immediately after the Marshall Scholarship and why one year spent in the UK would enhance these plans. It is a condition of the award that Marshall Scholars must proceed to a degree that can be completed within the 12 months. Nine- or ten-month graduate study programs are not eligible for this scholarship.
Two-Year Marshall Scholarship: The traditional Marshall Scholarship is tenable for two academic years but may be extended by the Commission, though not beyond the end of a third academic year. Third-year extensions are granted by the Commission on a limited basis, for strong academic reasons, subject to the availability of funds.
Application process: online
Application requirements: Applications are made in one of eight regions in the United States. Candidates may apply in the region of their home address or in the region of current residence/employment/study.
- Online application
- Letters of recommendation (3): Applicants should identify recommenders in the following order: the preferred recommender, a general recommender (who should have taught or supervised the applicant), and a leadership recommender; two of these recommenders must be located in the U.S.
- Short answer on post-scholarship plans
- Personal statement
- Academic Proposal
- Leadership Statement
- Official transcripts
- Institutional letter of endorsement
More information: http://www.marshallscholarship.org/applications/faqs
Campus representative: Dr. Jess Hernandez
Campus nomination required: Yes
National committee interview: Yes
Contact: https://www.marshallscholarship.org/contact-us/
Students and recent alumni interested in applying for the Marshall Scholarship are required to submit a completed intent-to-apply form by the intent-to-apply deadline (see deadlines at the top of this page).
Note: Late submissions of the intent-to-apply form will not be accepted; no exceptions will be made.
Intent to apply form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1LEciLz9Svbk1yz9uKfA4K8XLeA1v9n5pGTovNqClmCE/preview
Applicants that submitted an Intent-to-Apply form by their respective deadline will be invited to register on the Marshall Scholarship website.
Application materials are described in the information guidance:
All application materials, except the letters of recommendation, must be uploaded to the Marshall portal by the campus deadline; late applications will not be accepted.
Letters of recommendation must be emailed by the letter writer directly to Dr. Jess Hernandez, Director for Fellowships and Grants at hernand2@whitman.edu.
The Campus Endorsement Committee will review application materials and make their final decision about endorsing each candidate. Applicants will be notified via email by the Director for Fellowships and Grants.
Committee decisions are final. Whitman endorsement is not guaranteed.
It is the responsibility of the Endorsed applicant to:
- continue refining their application materials
- ensure that all letters of recommendation are submitted through the Marshall portal
- register an institutional endorser that will submit an institutional endorsement letter on their behalf; the email address to use is hernand2@whitman.edu
- hit 'Submit' by the national deadline