The Application opens on April 01, 2024, and closes on August 15, 2024.
Important notice!!
This scholarship is open only for nationals of Somalia, Djibouti, South Sudan and Eritrea with Bachelor’s
degree earned in the past 5 years from a recognized university at the time of application and intend to be a fulltime graduate student of physiotherapy, nursing, sociology, psychology, law, public health, development and environment management studies, optometry, special need and inclusive education, management, economics, marketing, accounting, tourism, logistics or gender and development studies at the University of Gondar, Ethiopia. Scholarships will be awarded on the basis of applicants’ academic ability, leadership potential, socioeconomic need and disability. The scholarship is comprehensive and covers the costs of tuition, accommodation/boarding, stipend and additional program-related expenses as well as support and training programs on academic, financial literacy and social issues with the aim of developing capable and transformative leaders at grassroots and global levels. The scholarship adopts the approach of experiential learning and facilitates organizational attachments, among others, for scholarship holders.
To be eligible to apply for the Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program’s graduate scholarship, applicants
must meet the below listed criteria:
1. Earned a Bachelor’s degree in a discipline relevant to their proposed graduate program from recognized University in the past 5 years;
2. Earned a minimum cumulative grade point average of 2.75 on a 4.0 scale (or its equivalent);
3. Be citizens of South Sudan, Somalia, Djibouti or Eritrea
4. Male & Female youth with disabilities
5. Female with economic difficulty to finance university education
6. Earned a pass mark on the Graduate Admission Test (GAT) administered by the Ethiopian Ministry of
Education
To access the application form and submit it to the Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program office, kindly click download it here.However, if you choose to complete the online application please fill out the form below.
Sorry, the deadline has now passed. We hope to see your commitment in our other endeavors as well. Thank you!
- Mail. Mailing to the program through the program’s mail address: (University of Gondar, Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program Office, P.o.Box. 1082, Gondar, Ethiopia)
- Email. mcfspuog@gmail.com (scanning and emailing all materials )
- In-person. Dropping off the documents in person at the Program Office: Mastercard Foundation Scholars program office, College of Medicine and Health Science Campuses, University of Gondar, Gondar
