Application process

CAT itself receives no applications directly.

Australian students interested in graduate research at Cambridge have to go through the following sequence of steps, here simplified to highlight the main steps:

1. Decide they want to go to Cambridge and apply to the Board of Graduate Studies (BGS) Administration office by 15th December. Copies of applications from Commonwealth countries are sent to CCT. It is advisable for student to be making contact with the Department in which they wish to study well before the closing date in relation to the formulation of their research project.
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2. A Department then has to offer admission in time for the student to be eligible for ORS scholarships.
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3. If accepted a formal, conditional offer of entry, is made from the BGS which may be subject to conditions which should be met before an offer can be confirmed.
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4. Financial considerations: A student from Australia requires funding for Cambridge College fees, government overseas research student charges (an ORS scholarship), and living expenses.
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   • College fees : circa 2,000 pounds annually.
   • Overseas research student charge (the ORS award pays the difference between the home and overseas rate of the University Composition Fee). The CCT pays the University Composition Fee at the home rate which differs slightly for Arts and Science courses.
   • Living expenses (known as maintenance allowance): which is where CAT comes in: CAT pays the maintenance allowance recommended by CCT which is currently 8,400 pounds per annum for each of three years and airfares at the beginning and end of the course costed at AUS $1,500 in total;
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5. In May CAT receives a list of people who have been accepted by a Department and a College and who have won an ORS, to allocate its CAT Scholarships to. At present it seems we are able to help around 6-8 people per annum.

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