25 for 25

  • September 3, 2024
25 for 25

Gates Cambridge will mark its 25th anniversary with an additional 25 scholarships in 2025

Our aim is to create a limitless ripple effect of possibility and change.

Eilis Ferran

The Gates Cambridge Trust will be celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2025 by offering an additional 25 postgraduate scholarships for our Class of 2025.

The 25th anniversary celebrations start next year and will kick off with our Impact Prize ceremony in January which will highlight the far-reaching impact of existiung Gates Cambridge Scholars and look forward to the next 25 years.

The Scholarship was set up in 2000 for international postgraduate students following a $210 billion donation by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the first cohort of Scholars started in 2001. Since then, over 2,000 Scholarships have been awarded.

Applications for entry in the academic year 2025-26 open tomorrow [4th September]. Gates Cambridge manages two selection rounds each year, with the first deadline for US-based Scholars being on 16th October and the second starting from 3rd December.

Scholars apply to the University of Cambridge in the usual way and are put forward by their department for the Scholarship programme if they have expressed an interest in it. Scholars need to demonstrate academic excellence, a commitment to improving the lives of others and a capacity for leadership.

Eilis Ferran, Provost of Gates Cambridge, said: “For 25 years now, students from across the globe have come to Cambridge to work with us and become part of our community. Then, when they go back out into the world as Gates Cambridge scholars, they make it a better place in ways no one could have predicted at the start. Our aim is to create a limitless ripple effect of possibility and change.”

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