About us
Fully Funded Scholarships (fully-fundedscholarships.com) is an independent international higher education news publication covering the global study-abroad landscape. We are not a scholarship aggregator or a listings directory. We are a newsroom. Our editors and contributing journalists report, analyze and critique the opportunities that shape where, how and why students move across borders to learn and to work.
Every day, governments, universities, foundations and private funders announce new ways to fund international study and skilled migration. Most of these announcements reach students as press releases, stripped of context and scrubbed of scrutiny. Our job is to put them back into context, ask harder questions, and help readers understand what an opportunity is actually worth.
What We Cover?
Our reporting spans the full architecture of cross-border academic and professional mobility. This includes fully funded scholarships, government-sponsored fellowships, university studentships and assistantships, research grants, postdoctoral positions, and the growing category of skill-shortage work visas and post-study work routes that now function as de facto pathways into global higher education.
We cover the major players, including the Fulbright Program, Chevening, DAAD, Erasmus Mundus, the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission, Vanier, Australia Awards, MEXT and the China Scholarship Council, alongside lesser-known regional funds, institutional awards and private foundations that often go underreported in the English-language press. We also track the policy side of the story, including visa fee changes, post-study work rights, recognition of foreign qualifications, and the immigration reforms that decide whether an offer letter becomes a boarding pass.
Our Editorial Approach
We write in the tradition of serious education journalism. Our articles are reported, sourced and opinionated where opinion is warranted. We publish news, criticism, reviews, comparative analysis and longer research features, and we believe an international student audience deserves the same editorial standards as any other informed readership.
That means we fact-check funding figures against primary sources. It means we read the fine print on eligibility, bonds and return-service clauses. It means we are willing to say when a prestigious-sounding programme is less generous than its marketing suggests, and when a little-known award is quietly one of the best deals available. We aim for the register of The Economist and Times Higher Education: clear, considered, unafraid of judgement, and respectful of the reader’s time.
Who We Write For?
Our readers are prospective and current international students, early-career researchers, academic advisers, and families navigating the often opaque world of foreign study. They come to us from across Africa, South and Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, Europe and beyond. What they share is a need for information they can trust and analysis they can use, whether they are choosing between two fellowship offers, weighing a skilled-worker visa against a master’s programme, or deciding whether a destination country is still worth the investment.
Our Contributors
Our articles are produced by a team of education journalists and specialist contributors with experience covering higher education policy, international admissions, research funding and immigration. Contributors bring first-hand knowledge of the systems they write about, whether as former scholarship recipients, academic advisers, researchers or reporters. Bylines on the site reflect the individuals responsible for each piece of reporting.
Editorial Independence
Fully Funded Scholarships is editorially independent. We do not accept payment in exchange for favorable coverage, and we do not publish sponsored content disguised as editorial. Universities and funders cannot buy their way onto our pages. When we recommend a programme, it is because our reporting supports the recommendation. When we criticize one, it is for the same reason.
Get in Touch!
We welcome tips, corrections, pitches from journalists, and questions from readers. If a scholarship, fellowship or visa route deserves scrutiny and is not yet on our radar, tell us. If we have made an error, tell us that too. Our commitment is to the reader, and that commitment begins with being reachable.
For editorial enquiries, story pitches and corrections, please use the contact form available on the site