The chief sources of funding for graduates are not administered by the College.  For UK citizens these are awards from the various Research Councils.  EU/overseas funding is extremely variable, with a large proportion of students relying on private means.  More details concerning Scholarships, Fees and expenses are available on the University's postgraduate prospectus. 

Several very competitive awards, though, are available through the generosity of Lincoln alumni to graduates coming to Lincoln and Oxford for the first time:

The Keith Murray Senior Scholarship, which may cover, subject to its terms, all fees and significant maintenance costs for up to four years, is open to graduates from universities and colleges outside the United Kingdom.  It is usually awarded every two to three years. 

Berrow Foundation Scholarships. Up to six scholarships covering  fees and maintenance are awarded each year for period of one  to three year. These scholarships are open only to those of Swiss, or Liechtenstein, nationality who are graduates of the Swiss Universities of Berne, Geneva, Lausanne, Fribourg, Neuchatel or Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, and who are fluent in written and spoken English. Two of these (the Berrow Foundation's Lord Florey Scholarships) are reserved for candidates accepted by the University to read for a graduate degree in medical, chemical or biochemical sciences. 

Overseas Graduate Entrance Scholarship, currently worth about £2,800, is also available through a competition to those overseas graduates who take up a place at Lincoln to read for a higher degree.  The College is also able to offer four-five Sloane Robinson Foundation Graduate Awards, valued at £5,000 each, and up to 11  Crewe Graduate Scholarships, each worth £2,000.

The College also rewards outstanding academic achievement by its graduates with Senior Scholarships, awards of £350, plus some housing and dining privileges, made to successful applicants after their first year at Lincoln.  Also, The Erich and Rochelle Friedmann Endowed Prize in Music generously rewards a graduate from any discipline, except music, who is a gifted musician and prepared to take a leading part in the College’s musical life. The College also offers annually the Supperstone Law Scholarship, worth £650, which may be awarded to a student reading for the postgraduate degree of BCL or M Juris with an emphasis on, or special interest in, Public Law. The College also offers the Kenneth Sewards-Shaw Scholarship, worth about £1500, for a graduate in the area of Law, History, English or Politics, and the Jermyn Brooks Graduate Award, worth £1,000, which is awarded to a new, or current graduate student of the College, in the area of the Humanities, with a preference for Modern Languages. In addition, there are three grants from the Polonsky Foundation of about £4,000 available for non-EU, fee-paying graduate students attending Lincoln College, Oxford, who show need of financial assistance, academic merit and the promise of being good College citizens. The grants are of one year's duration. Finally, Israeli graduate students wishing to study at Lincoln, particularly those from Hebrew University, are encouraged to apply to live in the Menasseh Ben Israel Room in the College's High Street Quad and receive a rent subsidy of about £3,000. Further details concerning all College awards, and the necessary,application forms, are available here .

In addition, limited hardship funds are available to assist graduate students from the College with cases of unexpected financial need, and may be accessed in confidence by students in residence.