Scholarships List

Faculty for the Future: US$50,000 a Year for Women in STEM, and the Country List You Must Check First The Schlumberger Foundation funds women from developing countries to do a PhD or post-doctoral research abroad, and the amounts are serious: up to US$50,000 a year for a PhD and up to US$40,000 a year for

UNESCO Fellowships: There Is No Single Scholarship, and One Gate Decides Everything Students write to us asking how to apply for “the UNESCO scholarship”. There is no such thing. UNESCO lists fifteen separate fellowship programmes on its own fellowships page. Different donors pay for them, different countries qualify, the deadlines fall months apart, and several

The OFID Scholarship Is Not Open. Here Is What the OPEC Fund Actually Says. Search for the OFID Scholarship Award today and you will find dozens of pages telling you to apply, several of them with confident deadlines attached. Now read what the OPEC Fund itself publishes on its own scholarship page: “The OPEC Fund

King Abdul Aziz University Scholarship: Master’s and PhD Only, and You Cannot Just Apply King Abdul Aziz University in Jeddah funds international students through a scholarship that covers a monthly bursary, healthcare, accommodation and an annual return flight home. Almost every page describing it online says it covers bachelor’s, master’s and PhD study. KAU’s own

Hong Kong PhD Fellowship 2027/28: Two Applications, Not One, and a New AI Rule Hong Kong’s Research Grants Council awards around 400 PhD fellowships a year, open to any nationality, any age, across eight universities. The initial application closes on 1 December 2026 at 12:00 noon Hong Kong time. Note the time. Noon, not midnight.

The NUS Science & Technology Scholarship: Six Years, and Why That Number Matters The National University of Singapore runs a freshmen scholarship that covers tuition completely, adds a yearly living allowance, pays your accommodation and flies you in. Students from Pakistan, India and Bangladesh qualify. It also carries a six-year bond, and that number is

The Nanyang Global Scholarship at NTU, and the Three-Year Bond Nobody Mentions Nanyang Technological University runs one of the most generous undergraduate awards in Asia, and it carries no nationality restriction at all. Students from Pakistan, India, Nigeria and Bangladesh compete on the same terms as everyone else. NTU calls it the Nanyang Global Scholarship.

TaiwanICDF Scholarship: Fully Funded, But Only 29 Programmes and a Country List The TaiwanICDF International Higher Education Scholarship pays for a master’s or a doctorate in Taiwan, and it pays for all of it. Tuition, housing, return airfare, insurance, textbooks and a monthly allowance. Applications open on 1 December each year and close on 15

CAS-TWAS President’s Fellowship: The Name Changed, and Most Guides Never Noticed Thousands of students across Pakistan, Nigeria, India and Bangladesh apply every year to something called the CAS-TWAS President’s Fellowship. The Chinese Academy of Sciences runs it, it pays for a PhD, and it has been one of the best routes into Chinese research for