Aga Khan Foundation Scholarships 2024

Details For Aga Khan Foundation Scholarships 2024:

Aga Khan Foundation International Scholarships are open for international students to pursue their master degree in any highly reputable university except universities in UK, Germany, Sweden, Austria, Denmark, The Netherlands, Italy, Norway and Ireland.

In order to foster effective scholars and leaders and to prepare them for employment, primarily within the AKDN, the Aga Khan Foundation awards a small number of scholarships each year for postgraduate studies to outstanding students from particular developing countries who have no other means of funding their studies. Every year in June or July, after a tough application process, scholarships are given out on a basis of 50% grants and 50% loans.

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The Foundation prioritizes requests for Master’s level courses, but it will consider applications for PhD programme only from exceptional students who have received strong recommendations from their professors for doctoral studies and who require a PhD to achieve their professional goals (whether academic or research-oriented).

Applications for short-term courses are not considered; neither are applications from students who have already started their course of study.

More Details:

• Degree: Masters, PhD
• Provided by : Aga Khan Foundation
• Location: UK, Germany, Sweden, Austria, Denmark, The Netherlands, Italy, Norway and Ireland
• Program Period: According to chosen university
• Deadline: March 31, 2024 (The 2024-2025 cycle will open in January 2024)

Courses Offered

• Health
• Education
• Culture
• Rural development
• Institution building
• Economic development
• Agriculture and food security
• Civil society
• Enterprise development
• Financial inclusion
• Habitat
• Historic cities
• Humanitarian assistance
• Industrial development
• Infrastructure development
• Media
• Music
• Tourism promotion

Scholarship Coverage

Aga Khan Foundation International Scholarships provides the recipient with the following benefits:

The Foundation solely helps students with living expenses and tuition.
Only the first two years of a PhD program are financially supported; following that, students are obliged to find other means of support.
The amount of financial aid given depends on the needs of the students.
To keep the amount asked from the Foundation to a minimum, applicants are urged to make every attempt to secure support from additional sources as well.
Those who have managed to obtain some support from alternative sources are given preference.

Loan Conditions

Half of the scholarship amount is considered as a loan, which must be reimbursed with an annual service charge of 5%.  A guarantor is required to co-sign the loan agreement. The payback period is five years, starting six months after the study period funded by the Aga Khan Foundation.

Eligibility:

To qualify for Aga Khan Foundation International Scholarships, candidate must fulfill all of the following requirements below:

• Required Language: As per chosen institute requirement.

Eligible Countries: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Syria, Egypt, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Madagascar and Mozambique.  In France, Portugal, UK, USA and Canada, applications are accepted from those who are originally from one of the above developing countries, are interested in development-related studies and who have no other means of financing their education.

• Consistently excellent academic records.
• Genuine financial need.
• Admission to a highly reputable university or program of study.
• Relevance of the field of study to AKDN’s focus areas.
• Demonstrating thoughtful and coherent educational and career plans,
• Their extra-curricular interests and achievements, potential to achieve their goals and likelihood to succeed in a foreign academic environment.
• Applicants are expected to have some years of work experience in their field of interest.
• Preference is given to students under 30 years of age.

• You should have an offer to study at the chosen university.
• Obtain application form from AKF offices or Aga Khan Education Services / Boards in the country of your current residence.
• Sent the completed application to the agency from which it was obtained. They should not be sent to Geneva.

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