Balliol College offers numerous scholarships for graduate study every year. For admission in the academic year 2026/2027 we intend, if there are candidates of sufficient merit, to make the awards listed below. Where appropriate they may be held in conjunction with other awards, particularly those of the University of Oxford such as the Clarendon Fund, and those of the UK Research Councils.
We will consider all eligible applicants to Oxford for our College scholarships, regardless of whether or not you state Balliol as your preferred college on your graduate application form. If we offer you a Balliol scholarship we will also offer you a place at Balliol, which will take the place of any earlier college offer you may have.
There is no separate application process; you simply need to apply for your graduate course by the relevant December or January deadline (see your course page for more information) and you will be automatically considered for all relevant scholarships as part of the university admissions process. Please see available scholarships below with further information on eligibility criteria.
Alfred Douglas Stone Scholarship
Arthur James Richmond Paton Scholarship
Bill Newton-Smith Scholarship
Black Academic Futures Scholarship
Grefenstette Scholarship — tbc
Refugee Academic Futures Scholarship
Not all College scholarships are available every year. The following scholarships are offered by the College, but are not expected to be awarded to new students for the 2026/2027 academic year:
Anderson Scholarship
Andrew Neil Crompton Scholarship
Brian Dickinson Scholarship
Bruce Scholarship
Gregory Kulkes Scholarship
Hakeem Belo-Osagie Scholarship
McDougall Scholarship
Oxford Economics Scholarship
Snell Scholarship