The Mandela Institute for Development Studies (MINDS) is inviting Africans from all over the continent to apply to its postgraduate scholarship program. It’s aimed at supporting students who want to study in an African state other than their home country. If you have completed undergraduate studies and are seeking to further your academic pursuits elsewhere in Africa, this is an opportunity you may want to take advantage of.
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Beginning in 2017, the MINDS Scholarship Program has pushed for the development of a new class of leaders who are willing to collaborate cross-continentally. They have been doing this by financing the postgraduate studies of competent Africans, in the hopes that these people will rise to influential leadership and policy-making positions and take a pan-African view of development along with them to those roles. The aim is to foster positive change via expenses-paid formal training.
Benefits
Persons who apply to this program could have the following expenses partially or fully paid for:
- Tuition
- Meals and accommodation
- One return ticket per study duration
- Fixed stipend
Eligibility
The MINDS Scholarships are available to persons who meet these criteria:
- Be an African living in an African country
- Has been formally accepted into one of the MINDs partner institutions to pursue postgraduate studies within a year
- Achieve a score of at least 70% in the courses they took within the last two completed years of study
- Submit a completed online registration form with supporting documentation
- Submit evidence of demonstrated leadership abilities
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MINDS Scholarship Program Partner Universities
Below is a list of partner universities for the MINDS program; you can apply for a scholarship if you have been admitted to any of them:
West Africa
- Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Accra, Ghana
- University of Development Studies, Ghana
- Pan-Atlantic University, Lagos, Nigeria
East Africa
- Makerere University, Uganda
- Strathmore University, Kenya
- Carnegie Mellon University in Uganda, Uganda
- African Leadership University, Rwanda
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Southern Africa
- University of Witwatersrand, South Africa
- University of Cape Town, South Africa
- University of Mauritius, Mauritius
- African Leadership University, Mauritius
If you would like to apply for this opportunity, you can do so HERE.
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