Undergraduate Grants, Awards & Scholarships

Your Ideas Matter

We encourage students to think beyond what their tutorials teach them. With generous financial and practical support from Pembroke, students can take on academic internships, organise conferences and undertake research around the globe.

We offer:

  • Financial backing for individual student projects, field trips and research
  • Funding for students to run academic events and lectures
  • Full funding to cover academic and living costs for STEM students to undertake summer internships
  • Generous book grants for all students in the humanities
  • Travel prices which allow students to undertake travel, research and internships abroad.
  • Funding towards the cost of language courses at the Oxford Language Centre
  • Other opportunities such as Technos International Week, a fully-funded, two-week cultural exchange between Pembroke and Technos International College in Tokyo, Japan

Some of the opportunities we offer are subject-specific (see our individual course pages).

Rokos Awards – Scholars and Exhibitioners

Students who achieve a First in all or most of their Public Examinations receive an annual scholarship or exhibition worth approximately £1,000 and £700 respectively. This includes a monetary award and an academic allowance to be spent on course materials or equipment. In addition, Award holders receive a Scholars’ Gown, an invitation to the prestigious Scholars’ Dinner to celebrate, and a public plaque listing in College.

Rokos Awards are generously funded by Pembroke alumnus Chris Rokos.

Explore below a number of other academic and extracurricular awards and prizes offered at Pembroke.

Student Experiences

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Olivia and Cassie leaning against wall with Lisbon sea view behind
Cassie Lloyd-Watson & Olivia Walsh (2021, Spanish and Portuguese)

The funding we received from Tutorials Plus and the Picot Prize helped finance a trip to Lisbon, the capital city of Portugal, during September 2022. We both loved our time in Lisbon and it hugely enriched our learning. Our language skills improved, especially our confidence in speaking, and we really got to know the city well.

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Joshua Kirkhope-Arkley
Joshua Kirkhope-Arkley (2020, European and Middle Eastern Languages)

Through support from the Alan Jones fund, I stayed in Rabat, Morocco for three weeks. There, I completed a one-on-one advanced Arabic course at the Center for Cross-Cultural Learning. The fund meant that I could afford these one-on-one classes, something which has been invaluable for going into my final year of a French and Arabic degree.

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Audrey Dickinson
Audrey Dickinson

Through support from the George Bredin Travel Fund, I attended a departmental field course in tropical forest ecology. I joined four professors and about twenty other second-year undergraduates to fly to Borneo in May of 2023. I never would have had the confidence to undertake my latest project without the practical skills and research independence the Borneo trip helped build.