Australia

The Knox Fellowship Online Application for Australians for the 2024-2025 academic year is now available.

Applications are due by February 9, 2024 at 11:59pm ET. Please review the information below regarding eligibility and guidelines.

 

Overview:

  1. Knox Fellowships are open to men and women who:
    1. are citizens of Australia at the time of application and who are normally residing in Australia; AND
    2. have completed or will complete a first or higher degree at an Australian university; AND
    3. are studying for a first or higher degree and will graduate in the academic year 2023-2024; OR have completed a first or higher degree and graduated no earlier than 2019.
    4. Please note that persons who graduated before 2019 are not be eligible to apply.
  2. No application will be considered from any potential applicant already in the United States.
  3. Each Knox Fellowship applicant must also submit an Application for Admission directly to the Harvard graduate or professional school of their choice. Knox Fellowships are awarded only to those candidates that gain admission to Harvard as full-time degree-program students. Applicants are urged to begin correspondence with that school’s Admissions Office at the earliest possible date. Applicants should submit Applications for Admission to the appropriate school as early as possible and need not wait for the deadline. 
  4. Knox Fellowship applicants seeking admission to Harvard Law School should have completed their resident university education and hold a basic degree in Law before applying for an advanced degree program such as the Master of Laws (LLM).
  5. Knox Fellowships are not awarded for undergraduate study or postdoctoral research, nor do they support medical research, post-doctoral research, or any other research appointment. They are not available for online or part-time programs or Executive Education programs. Normally Frank Knox Fellows must be in residence in the Boston/Cambridge area during the first two years of their degree program. (The fellowship will not support students whose programs require extensive field-work during this period.)

Citizens of Australia who are currently studying in or graduated from a university in another Knox-eligible country may be eligible to submit a Knox Fellowship application. This will be handled on a case-by-case basis and candidates are asked to contact the Committee on General Scholarships at Harvard University. See contact information below.

 

How to Apply: 

  1. Applicants are required to submit an online application. Supplemental materials as part of the online application include:
    1. Curriculum Vitae
    2. Short essay of no more than 1,000 words, which provides an account of the applicant’s academic pursuits, intellectual interests, extra-curricular activities, and the reasons for his/her desire to study at Harvard University; the essay should also explain the applicant’s plan of study at Harvard and his/her future career plans.
    3. Certified copies of all academic transcripts. 
    4. Two confidential letters of recommendation. 

Candidate Selection Process:

  1. Candidates will be selected on the basis of academic excellence, strength of character, and potential for leadership in the applicant’s field.
  2. Mrs. Knox expressed the hope that recipients of Knox Fellowships, after gaining knowledge and experience from study in the United States, would return to their native countries to become leaders in their chosen fields.

Contact Information:


Committee on General Scholarships
Harvard University
14 Story Street, 3rd Floor
Cambridge, MA 02138

Telephone: 617-496-9367
Email: cgs@harvard.edu