Sierra Leone Has the Oldest University in Sub-Saharan Africa — And a Scholarship Landscape Built on Deep UK Ties The Republic of Sierra Leone is not a country most international scholarship guides feature prominently. But its scholarship landscape is anchored by two facts that most guides overlook: Fourah Bay College established in 1827 is the oldest […]
Tashkent Has Something No Other Central Asian City Has — International Branch Campuses From Five Countries Tashkent is the capital of Uzbekistan and Central Asia’s largest city. It is also, by a significant margin, the most internationally connected higher education destination in the entire region. In a city of three million people, you can enroll
Senegal Is the Most Politically Stable Country in Sub-Saharan Africa — And Has a Scholarship Landscape to Match The Republic of Senegal has never experienced a successful military coup. In a West African region where military interruptions to democracy have recently occurred in Mali, Guinea, Burkina Faso, and Niger, Senegal stands as the only major
An Honest Introduction: What Tajikistan Is and Isn’t as a Study Destination This guide is different from others in ScholarWing’s “How to Study” series because Tajikistan is genuinely different from Kazakhstan, Estonia, Hong Kong, or Malta as a study destination. Tajikistan does not have a robust, well-advertised international scholarship program with hundreds of places available
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Rwanda Has the Only Carnegie Mellon University Campus in Africa — And It’s in Kigali Most scholarship guides for Rwandan students list the same programs available to all African countries. This one starts with what makes Rwanda genuinely different. In 2011, upon the invitation of the Government of Rwanda, Carnegie Mellon and the Government of
Most Guides About Kazakh Scholarships Make the Same Mistake — Let’s Clarify It First Bolashak is Kazakhstan’s most famous scholarship. It is also a scholarship exclusively for Kazakhstani citizens, not for international students from other countries. This is the same common error found in guides about Indonesia (where LPDP is for Indonesian citizens only) and Indonesia
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Niger Students: Two Worlds of Scholarships, One Major Practical Consideration The Republic of Niger sits at the convergence of two scholarship worlds — the same dual position as Mali: Niger is a French-speaking country — opening the Eiffel Excellence Scholarship, ARES Belgium, AUF/OIF programs, Campus France scholarships, and the entire Francophone academic world. Niger is
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Croatia Is the EU’s Youngest Member — And One of Europe’s Most Overlooked Study Destinations Croatia joined the European Union in 2013, making it the EU’s youngest member state. Its universities are fully EU-recognized. Its degrees carry the same academic standing as German, French, or Italian qualifications. And its cost of living is significantly lower
Namibia Has the Strongest DAAD Pipeline in Africa — Most Namibian Students Don’t Know It The Republic of Namibia independent since 1990 after nine decades as German South-West Africa and then a South African mandate has a scholarship landscape shaped profoundly by its German colonial heritage. Namibia receives one of the strongest single-country DAAD pipelines
Most Guides About Oman Scholarships Get the Three Tracks Wrong — Here’s What’s Actually True The Oman government scholarship system has three distinct tracks. The vast majority of online guides either don’t know this or lump them together, causing applicants to fill out the wrong forms, miss the right deadlines, and sometimes apply for scholarships
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