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St John’s Cambridge Postgrad Offer Holders

Hi, has anyone else been allocated to St John’s College for postgrad (Master’s)?
It was my first choice and I’m very excited! Now just have to wait for funding decisions to come in :/

Reply 1

Hi, same here! Got accepted end of last week which was awesome news. MPhil here too. Good luck for funding!

Reply 2

hey there! international student, accepted to mphil in political thought & intellectual history, got my st. johns offer sometime late jan and am very excited to see if any funding comes through. do you guys know how often st johns provides funding for postgrad studies? i emailed the college and they told me the following:

"The Benefactors Competition closes on 1 March and the results are likely to be announced after mid-April. You do not need to do anything further to be considered in the Competition. Our only other sources of funding are for South African nationals and students studying a specific area of Chinese Studies."

Reply 3

Original post by IVHollow
hey there! international student, accepted to mphil in political thought & intellectual history, got my st. johns offer sometime late jan and am very excited to see if any funding comes through. do you guys know how often st johns provides funding for postgrad studies? i emailed the college and they told me the following:
"The Benefactors Competition closes on 1 March and the results are likely to be announced after mid-April. You do not need to do anything further to be considered in the Competition. Our only other sources of funding are for South African nationals and students studying a specific area of Chinese Studies."


Congrats! They don’t publish how many funding opportunities they give out, but apparently St John’s is one of the more generous colleges. Everyone with an offer gets entered for the benefactors scholarship I believe, so we just have to wait until they start announcing in March!

Reply 4

Original post by bejoselino
Hi, same here! Got accepted end of last week which was awesome news. MPhil here too. Good luck for funding!


Hello! Could I ask how long did the college take to offer you a place please after you received your offer from PAO

Reply 5

When did people get accepted into St. John's? I'm trying to figure out when the committee meets/has met to consider applications!

Reply 6

Original post by Anonymous
When did people get accepted into St. John's? I'm trying to figure out when the committee meets/has met to consider applications!

I found out late January, the day after I received my offer from Cambridge. I was a pretty early applicant so that might have helped!

Reply 7

I got my conditional offer last day of Jan and then got accepted about 3 weeks later to St John’s as my first choice

Reply 8

Has anyone received any information from the college since being accepted? I haven’t gotten any emails as I would have expected

Reply 9

Original post by Anonymous
When did people get accepted into St. John's? I'm trying to figure out when the committee meets/has met to consider applications!


I got accepted to johns on 4th feb, 8 days after getting my offer

Reply 10

Original post by bejoselino
Has anyone received any information from the college since being accepted? I haven’t gotten any emails as I would have expected


I received an email from the johns postgraduate administrator the day I got my acceptance with my conditional offer and asking me to fill in an acceptance form

Reply 11

I got accepted to Johns within the week I got my offer, can't remember the exact date but it was all in late January. Got the email with the offer from Johns to sign the following week.

Reply 12

Please update this thread if anyone hears about the benefactor’s scholarship!

Reply 13

Original post by Anonymous
Please update this thread if anyone hears about the benefactor’s scholarship!

I was told I was no longer under consideration for the scholarship ☹️

Reply 14

Original post by IVHollow
I was told I was no longer under consideration for the scholarship ☹️


Sorry to hear! Did you have to email them and ask or did they email you?

Reply 15

Just gotten an email saying I didn’t get the benefactors scholarship too, gutted :frown: not many avenues of funding left for me…

Reply 16

Yeh no benefactors for me :frown:

Reply 17

Original post by philosophydude
Yeh no benefactors for me :frown:


Sorry to hear, such a shame… 😔

Reply 18

Same here

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