Scholarships for Students from Developing Countries
There are lots of scholarships out there that claim to be designed for student from developing countries. That claim does not really mean much. Every individual student, no matter their country of birth, has a unique perspective of what makes a scholarship right for them.
However, if we were to ask: what are the features of a scholarship that would be right for students from developing countries, what would you list? Here is a list of the features a student seeking scholarship from a developing country should look out for
- Full Tuition: Many scholarships only offer subsidized tuition. This may be good for middle-income earners in a developed country, but the remainder of the tuition is still a very large sum to pay for students and families from developing country. You can tell that it is quite a large sum when you convert the amount to local currencies.
- Travel Expenses: Plane tickets and document processing fees are still quite hefty and may discourage students who would need to raise those funds to land a scholarship.
- Work-Study Arrangements: Students from developing countries would love to make full use of the opportunity of living in a developed country. They would like to be able to do some work to raise extra income they could send home
- Research Applicability: This is the final and the most important point international students from developing countries should seek. They should be able to apply the fruits of their research to development in their home country as soon as their studies are over.
Below is a list of scholarships available this year that can meet these criteria for students from developing countries. We have included all kinds of scholarships, from undergraduates to Masters, doctorates, and post-doctorates.
Fulbright Scholarships:
The Fulbright Foreign Student Program is available to students from several countries, including a lot of developing ones. You can check to see if your country is eligible for this year here.
The Scholarships are quite prestigious, giving students from various countries access to top universities like Harvard, Princeton, Yale, and others for their research and studies. It enables graduate students, young professionals and artists from abroad to study and conduct research in the United States. The Program operates in more than 160 countries worldwide. About 4,000 foreign students receive Fulbright scholarships each year.
Diversity Advancement Scholarship
Architectural design is a field that should be relevant to any innovator from a community in a developing country. There are usually several infrastructures that need novel designs or machine parts to be optimized for a function in a rural community/low-income urban centres. Architects who learn to extensively design machine parts can find valuable projects to contribute to.
This is available for students from a minority race or ethnicity who are aiming for the architectural career.
Scholarship website: https://architectsfoundation.org/education/the-diversity-advancement-scholarship/
Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program
Are you an African-born scholar who wants to work in projects in research collaboration, graduate student teaching/mentoring and curriculum co-development? Basically, are you an African scholar who wants to meet up with other ambitious researchers and collaborate on a transformative project? You should apply for the Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program (CADFP).
This is a fellowship program for African institutions in Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania and Uganda to host. The program is funded by a grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York (CCNY). The program began in 2013 and has awarded a total of 527 African Diaspora Fellowships to scholars who travelled to Africa to work or research in a higher institution. The focus of the fellowship program is on educational projects in those higher institutions. You can learn more about the fellowship program here.
Rotary Scholarships
The Rotary club is a very common presence in many campuses of African Universities. They are a non-governmental organization that is deeply invested in promoting education and using it to upbuild communities. If you’re interested in getting scholarships to further your education, you should be interested in the various scholarships they offer a year. Their scholarships are quite good for researchers looking to build extensive collaborative projects, as they would be availed the organizations access to ambitious students in all levels of education through the Rotary club.
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There are two types of scholarships offered by the rotary club
Rotary Club Scholarships
These are for secondary, undergraduate, or graduate study. They are given by individual clubs and are open to anyone except Rotary members and their families. Contact your local club for application information and eligibility requirements, which you can find by location here.
The Rotary Foundation Scholarships
These scholarships are for college graduates and professionals to study peace and conflict resolution. They are often referred to as the Rotary peace fellowships, and they are available to candidates who want to participate in a master’s degree or certificate program at one of the foundation’s six partner universities. Learn more about this fellowship by visiting here.
World Bank Graduate Scholarship Program
This is a scholarship provided by the World Bank’s Development Economics Vice Presidency (DEC) to students and young researchers, who are engaged in productive or promising research. Their research should contribute to the World Bank’s mission of forging new dynamic approaches to capacity development and knowledge sharing in the developing world.
The World bank is quite committed to this scholarship program, and is part of their efforts to promote economic development and shared prosperity through investing in education, capacity building, and developing human resources in the developing world. Over 6000 students have been helped to become experienced development professionals and scholars, who have the goal of transforming their countries and positively impacting future generations.
There are currently two scholarship programs being sponsored by the DEC. Click on them to learn more about the application process.
Other Scholarships at iie.org
The IIE is a non-profit organization that is working to make international study easier for low-income students all over the world. If you are a student from a developing country, you should definitely follow www.iie.org.