Many of the prestigious external scholarships for graduate study are available for some time after college. Applicants for the Rhodes Scholarship for study at Oxford are eligible until they turn 24. The deadline is usually the first day or so of October. The Marshall Scholarship provides funding for one or two years of study at a British university (or two). Applicants are eligible up to two years after graduation. The Jack Kent Cooke, which is potentially the most lucrative external scholarship, provides funding up to $50,000 for up to 6 years of graduate school. Applicants are eligible for up to five years out of college. Students may take the Jack Kent Cooke funding to any university in the world that the Foundation approves, but it must be for the applicant’s first graduate school program. The Mitchell Scholarship, for graduate study at an Irish university, is open to applicants up to age 30. Most scholarships honor exceptional academic achievement and commitment to the academic discipline as well as a range of other qualities and achievements.
For all of these and other external scholarships, applicants work with the scholarship director from their undergraduate institution. For The University of Montana, contact Laure Pengelly Drake, Director of External Scholarships and Advising, Davidson Honors College 102, (406) 243-6140, laure.pengellydrake@umontana.edu. Please review the UM external scholarship website, http://www.dhc.umt.edu/scholarships.htm, and the sites for the individual scholarships that interest you. If you are interested in applying for one or more scholarships, make an appointment with Laure through the DHC front desk: (406)243-2541. Bring an unofficial transcript and a resume to the appointment.
