📚 How to Use the QS Official Scholarship Search Tool | QS 官方奖学金搜索工具使用指南
Every year thousands of strong A-Level candidates lose funding they were perfectly eligible for, simply because they never looked in the right place. The QS scholarship search tool exists to fix that problem: it is a free, filterable database that gathers awards from universities, governments, foundations and private donors across dozens of study destinations. This guide walks you through the whole workflow, from your first search to a verified shortlist, and shows you how to convert a list of results into applications that actually win money.
每年都有成千上万名成绩优秀的 A-Level 学生，因为”没有找对地方”，白白错失了本来完全符合资格的资助机会。QS 官方奖学金搜索工具正是为解决这个问题而存在的：它是一个免费、可筛选的数据库，汇集了来自数十个留学目的地的高校、政府、基金会和私人捐赠者设立的奖学金。本文将带你走完整个流程，从第一次搜索到形成经过核实的候选清单，并教你如何把一串搜索结果变成真正能拿到钱的申请。
1. What the QS Scholarship Search Tool Actually Is | QS 官方奖学金搜索工具到底是什么
The tool is a searchable index, not a funding body. QS does not award the money and does not decide who receives it. It collects scholarship records published by providers, standardises the key fields, and lets you filter them. The provider – a university, ministry, foundation or company – remains the only body that can award, reject or renew the funding.
这个工具本质上是一个可搜索的索引库，而不是资助机构。QS 本身不发钱，也不决定谁能获奖。它的作用是收集各资助方公开发布的奖学金信息，把关键字段标准化，并让你进行筛选。真正能够发放、拒绝或续发这笔钱的，始终是资助方本身——可能是大学、政府部门、基金会或企业。
Because it is an aggregator, its greatest strength and its greatest weakness are the same thing: breadth. You can see awards in Japan, Germany, Canada, Singapore and the Netherlands on a single screen, but individual records can lag behind the provider’s own website by weeks or even a full admissions cycle.
正因为它是聚合平台，它最大的优势和最大的弱点其实是同一件事：广度。你可以在同一个界面上看到日本、德国、加拿大、新加坡和荷兰的奖学金，但个别条目的更新可能比资助方官网滞后数周，甚至滞后一整个招生年度。
Practically, this means one rule governs everything that follows: use QS to discover, use the provider’s official page to decide.
因此在实操上，后面所有内容都围绕一条铁律展开：用 QS 来”发现”，用资助方官网来”决策”。
2. Why A-Level Students Should Start in Year 12, Not Year 13 | 为什么要在 Year 12 而不是 Year 13 开始
Scholarship timelines run ahead of university application timelines, not alongside them. Many major awards close between November and February for entry the following September, and some nomination-based schemes close even earlier, in September or October of Year 13.
奖学金的时间线往往跑在大学申请时间线的前面，而不是与之并行。许多重要奖项在 11 月至次年 2 月之间截止，对应的是第二年 9 月入学；而一些需要学校提名的项目，截止时间更早，可能落在 Year 13 的 9 月或 10 月。
Several awards require a school nomination, which means a head teacher, head of year or subject teacher must write and submit a supporting statement. Good referees are busy. If you ask in November for a January deadline, you are competing for their attention against everyone else who did the same thing.
有些奖学金要求学校提名，这意味着校长、年级主任或学科老师必须为你撰写并提交推荐材料。优秀的推荐人通常非常忙。如果你在 11 月才提出申请、而截止日期在 1 月，你就是在和所有同样拖延的同学争夺他们的注意力。
Building your shortlist in Year 12 also changes your university choices. If you know that a specific award covers tuition but not living costs in one country, and a different one covers both in another, your final five UCAS or international choices should reflect that arithmetic, not just the league table position.
在 Year 12 就建立候选清单，还会改变你的择校决策。如果你已经知道某个国家的某笔奖学金只覆盖学费、不覆盖生活费，而另一个国家的项目两者全包，那么你最终的五个志愿（无论是 UCAS 还是国际申请）就应该体现这套财务算术，而不仅仅是看排名。
3. Step 1: Access the Tool and Build a Profile | 第一步：进入工具并建立个人档案
Open the scholarship search page on the QS / TopUniversities site. Basic searching is free and requires no payment at any stage. Creating a free account is optional, but it lets you save searches, bookmark awards and receive alerts when new records match your criteria.
打开 QS / TopUniversities 网站上的奖学金搜索页面。基础搜索完全免费，任何环节都不需要付费。注册一个免费账号是可选项，但它可以让你保存搜索条件、收藏奖学金条目，并在有符合条件的新记录出现时收到提醒。
Your profile should be specific enough to be useful. Vague profiles produce unusable results.
你的个人档案要足够具体才有用。过于宽泛的档案只会产生无法使用的搜索结果。
- Nationality and country of residence – these are hard eligibility filters for many awards.
国籍与居住国——对许多奖学金来说，这是硬性资格条件。 - Current or intended study level – undergraduate, master’s, PhD or postdoctoral.
当前或计划就读的学历阶段——本科、硕士、博士或博士后。 - Intended subject or faculty – for example engineering, medicine, economics, law, or a broad area such as STEM.
计划就读的专业或学院——例如工程、医学、经济学、法律，或 STEM 这样的大类。 - Preferred destination country and start year – the intake year matters because deadlines differ between September and January entry.
目标国家与入学年份——入学年份很关键，因为 9 月入学与 1 月入学的截止时间不同。 - Funding type needed – full funding, partial funding, tuition waiver only, or travel grant.
所需资助类型——全额资助、部分资助、仅学费减免，或差旅补助。
Fill it in honestly. A profile that claims you are open to any subject in any country will return hundreds of irrelevant records and hide the handful that genuinely fit you.
请如实填写。一个声称”任何国家、任何专业都可以”的档案，会返回数百条无关记录，反而把你真正适合的那几条淹没掉。
4. Step 2: Master the Filters | 第二步：掌握筛选条件
The filter panel is where the tool earns its value. Learn these six controls and you can cut a thousand results down to twenty in under two minutes.
筛选面板是这个工具价值的核心。掌握以下六个控件，你就能在两分钟内把一千条结果压缩到二十条。
| Filter 筛选条件 | Typical options 常见选项 | Practical tip 实操建议 |
| Study level 学历阶段 | Bachelor, Master, PhD, Postdoc | A-Level students should select Bachelor only; mixing levels wastes time. |
| Destination 目的地 | Country or region | Run two searches: one targeted, one open to any country. |
| Subject 专业 | Faculty or broad discipline | Search once by your exact subject and once by the parent faculty. |
| Nationality 国籍 | Citizenship of applicant | This is the single most powerful filter. |
| Funding type 资助类型 | Full, partial, tuition waiver, stipend | Do not filter by “full” too early – partial awards stack. |
| Provider type 资助方类型 | University, government, foundation, company | Government schemes often have the longest lead times. |
A useful habit is to keep two saved searches running at all times: a “dream search” (your top destination plus your subject) and a “safety search” (your nationality plus any destination plus full funding). The safety search frequently surfaces awards you would never have thought to look for.
一个很实用的习惯是：始终维持两个已保存的搜索——”理想搜索”（首选目的地＋你的专业）和”保底搜索”（你的国籍＋任意目的地＋全额资助）。保底搜索经常会挖出你根本想不到要去找的奖学金。
5. Step 3: Decode a Scholarship Record | 第三步：解读奖学金条目
Every result looks similar at first glance, but the detail fields are where eligibility is won or lost. Read them in this order.
乍看之下每条结果都很相似，但资格成败恰恰藏在细节字段里。建议按以下顺序阅读。
| Field 字段 | What it tells you 它告诉你什么 | Check before shortlisting 入选前必须确认 |
| Award name 奖学金名称 | Official title used by the provider | Copy the exact name for your emails and forms. |
| Study level 学历阶段 | Who may apply | Some “undergraduate” awards exclude foundation years. |
| Eligible nationalities 适用国籍 | Citizenship restrictions | Residency and citizenship are not the same thing. |
| Award value 金额 | Cash amount, percentage or tuition waiver | Check the currency and whether it is per year or one-off. |
| Number of awards 名额 | How many recipients per cycle | Two awards worldwide means a very different strategy. |
| Deadline 截止日期 | Application closing date | Confirm the time zone – many are 23:59 local to the provider. |
| Application route 申请方式 | Separate form, automatic consideration, or nomination | Nomination schemes need school action weeks earlier. |
| Renewal conditions 续发条件 | Whether funding continues after year one | A GPA or grade threshold can end funding in year two. |
Two phrases deserve special attention. “Automatic consideration” means your admission application doubles as a scholarship application – you may not need to do anything extra, but you must check the box if one exists. “Nomination required” means you cannot apply alone; the school must put you forward.
有两个说法需要特别留意。”自动纳入考虑”意味着你的入学申请同时就是奖学金申请——你可能不需要额外做什么，但如果系统里有勾选项，就必须勾上。”必须提名”意味着你无法单独申请，必须由学校推荐你。
6. Step 4: Shortlist, Track and Prioritise | 第四步：筛选、追踪与排序
A scholarship you never apply for has a value of zero. The purpose of a shortlist is to concentrate your limited hours on awards where your probability of success multiplied by the award value is highest.
没有申请的奖学金，价值等于零。候选清单的意义，就是把有限的时间集中投入到”成功率 × 金额”最高的奖项上。
A simple priority score makes the decision rational rather than emotional:
用一个简单的优先级分数，可以让决策变得理性而非情绪化：
Priority = (Award Value ÷ Application Effort) × Eligibility Confidence
Where Eligibility Confidence is scored 1.0 for a certain match, 0.5 for a likely match and 0.2 for an uncertain one, and Award Value is the expected net benefit over the full degree, not the headline figure for one year.
其中，资格把握度（Eligibility Confidence）可设为：明确符合 1.0、很可能符合 0.5、不确定 0.2；而奖学金价值（Award Value）应按整个学位期间的预期净收益计算，而不是只看某一年的宣传数字。
Keep the tracker in a spreadsheet with these columns: award name, provider, destination, value, deadline, time zone, application route, documents needed, status, and next action. Review it once a week, every week, from the start of Year 13.
用一个表格来追踪，字段包括：奖学金名称、资助方、目的地、金额、截止日期、时区、申请方式、所需材料、状态、下一步行动。从 Year 13 开始，每周固定复盘一次。
Cap yourself at four to eight scholarship applications in a cycle. Beyond that, quality collapses and your academic work suffers, which in turn damages the grades that made you eligible in the first place.
一个申请季内，把奖学金申请数量控制在四到八个。超过这个范围，材料质量会明显下滑，同时挤压学业时间，而学业成绩恰恰是你最初具备资格的根本。
7. Step 5: Verify on the Provider’s Official Site | 第五步：在资助方官网核实
Never submit an application based only on a database record. Always click through to the provider’s own page and verify five things: the current cycle’s deadline, the eligible nationalities, the required documents, whether a separate admission application is needed, and whether a nomination or reference is required.
永远不要仅凭数据库条目就提交申请。一定要点进资助方自己的页面，核实五件事：本轮的截止日期、适用国籍、所需材料、是否需要单独提交入学申请、是否需要提名或推荐信。
A quick way to detect an outdated page is to look for the academic year printed in the heading or URL. If it says 2023/24 and you are applying for 2026 entry, treat the whole record as provisional until confirmed.
快速识别过时页面的方法：查看标题或网址中标注的学年。如果写的是 2023/24，而你要申请的是 2026 年入学，那么在得到确认之前，整条记录都应视为”待核实”。
If something is genuinely ambiguous, send a short, polite email to the funding office or admissions office. Two or three sentences, one clear question.
如果确实存在歧义，就给资助办公室或招生办发一封简短、礼貌的邮件。两三句话，一个明确的问题即可。
State your nationality, the award name, the intake year, and ask the specific question. Vague enquiries get vague answers, or no answer at all.
写清楚你的国籍、奖学金名称、入学年份，然后提出那个具体问题。含糊的询问只会得到含糊的回答，或者干脆没有回答。
8. Eligibility Triage: Hard Filters vs Soft Preferences | 资格初筛：硬性条件与软性偏好
Scholarship requirements fall into two categories, and confusing them is the most common cause of wasted effort.
奖学金的要求分为两类，混淆这两类是最常见的浪费时间的根源。
Hard filters are objective and binary. Citizenship, country of residence, age limits, study level, subject restrictions, first-degree status, household income thresholds, and the deadline itself. If you fail a single hard filter, you are ineligible, and no amount of brilliant essay writing will change that.
硬性条件是客观且二元的：国籍、居住国、年龄上限、学历阶段、专业限制、是否第一学位、家庭收入门槛，以及截止日期本身。只要有一条硬性条件不符合，你就不具备资格，再出色的文书也无法改变这一点。
Soft preferences are subjective and weighted. Leadership experience, community service, sporting or musical achievement, a stated career goal, and the quality of your personal statement. These decide who wins among the eligible, not who is allowed to enter.
软性偏好是主观且加权的：领导经历、社区服务、体育或音乐成就、明确的职业目标，以及个人陈述的质量。它们决定的是”符合资格的人里谁获奖”，而不是”谁有资格参加”。
The discipline is simple: check hard filters first and ruthlessly. If an award requires citizenship you do not hold, delete it from your shortlist in ten seconds rather than spending an hour reading about it.
纪律很简单：先看硬性条件，而且要果断。如果某个奖学金要求你不持有的国籍，就用十秒钟把它从清单里删掉，而不是花一小时去研究它。
Then, and only then, compare yourself against the soft preferences and decide how competitively you can present your evidence.
然后——也只有在这之后——再拿自己和那些软性偏好做比较，判断你能多有力地呈现自己的证据。
9. Funding Arithmetic: What the Award Really Covers | 资助算术：奖学金到底覆盖什么
A headline figure of “£20,000” can mean very different things. Before you rank awards, build the full cost picture for each destination.
宣传中”两万英镑”这样的大数字，可以代表完全不同的含义。在给奖项排序之前，先为每个目的地算清全部成本。
Total Cost = Tuition + Accommodation + Living Costs + Insurance + Travel + Visa + Books
Net Cost = Total Cost − (Award Value − Conditions Attached)
Then check what the award actually pays for, using this comparison.
然后再用下面的对照，检查这笔钱究竟覆盖了哪些项目。
| Award type 奖项类型 | Usually covers 通常覆盖 | Costs you must plan for 你须自备的费用 |
| Tuition waiver 学费减免 | Tuition fees only | Living, accommodation, visa, flights |
| Partial scholarship 部分奖学金 | A fixed sum or percentage | The remaining balance each year |
| Full scholarship 全额奖学金 | Tuition plus a stipend | Annual excess over the stipend; one-off setup costs |
| Stipend or maintenance grant 生活津贴 | Living costs, paid in instalments | Gap between instalments; currency fluctuation |
| Travel grant 差旅补助 | Flights or conference costs | Everything else |
Four details cause most surprises: whether the award renews after year one, whether a grade threshold applies, whether the stipend is taxable in
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