Skip to content
Menu

PhD Scholarships, by the numbers

A live snapshot on Scholarship Union — how many are open, where they are, when they close, and what people are looking at right now.

Updated daily · Nov 11, 2026
All data Undergraduate Bachelor's Master's PhD Postgraduate Post-doctoral Diploma
Open right now
423 scholarships accepting applications
259 are always open (no fixed deadline)
When they close
Within 30 days · 74 31–60 days · 41 61–90 days · 28 90+ days · 21
44
Countries offering them
84%
Of funded ones are fully funded
74
Closing within 30 days
259
Always open (no deadline)

When deadlines fall

Open deadlines by month over the next year — the busiest months to prepare for.

Busiest: December 2026 · 59

Funding mix

Of those tagged with a funding level.

Fully funded · 331 Partially funded · 61

Where the funding is

Countries with the most open scholarships in this slice.

Scholarships in UK 86 Scholarships in USA 49 Scholarships in Australia 36 Scholarships in Germany 28 Scholarships in Canada 23 Scholarships in China 20

What seekers are viewing

The most-viewed open scholarships in this slice.

1 University of Manitoba Scholarships 2026 in Canada | Fully Funded Scholarships in Canada · 1 Dec 2026 16,456 views 2 Hamad Bin Khalifa University Scholarship 2027 in Qatar | Fully Funded Scholarships in Qatar · 1 Feb 2027 15,243 views 3 King Abdulaziz University Scholarship 2027 in Saudi Arabia | Fully Funded Scholarships in Saudi Arabia · Always open 9,145 views 4 University of Tokyo Scholarship 2026 in Japan | Fully Funded Scholarships in Japan · Always open 7,824 views 5 Gottingen DAAD Scholarship 2027 in Germany | Fully Funded Scholarships in Germany · 15 Nov 2026 7,062 views 6 Sabanci University Scholarship 2027 in Turkey | Fully Funded Scholarships in Turkey · 27 Nov 2026 6,847 views

Want these as they land?

Follow this topic and get one short daily digest whenever new scholarships are added — free, no account.

Follow PhD Scholarships Browse all in this slice

Counts, funding mix, deadlines and popularity are pulled live from current listings. Award amounts aren't shown yet — they live in scholarship descriptions and would need a one-time extraction pass to chart.