Chevening Scholarships Programme

(asked on 11th March 2026) - View Source

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if she will provide a breakdown of the number people in the UK on Chevening scholarships in each of the last ten years by nationality.


Answered by
Chris Elmore Portrait
Chris Elmore
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
This question was answered on 23rd March 2026

I thank the Hon Member for his question. I will deposit in the library the full requested breakdown of Chevening scholarships by year and by country, but as a summary of the top-line findings, the table below sets out the top 20 countries for scholarships over the period 2015-25.

Brazil611
Indonesia598
Mexico574
Pakistan565
India523
Nigeria489
Egypt486
South Africa447
Malaysia429
Kenya347
Syria290
Argentina283
Philippines282
Vietnam255
Thailand241
Turkey236
Ukraine226
Ghana210
Bangladesh179
Mongolia142
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