Mastercard TAGDev Scholarship 2024 (Fully Funded)
The Mastercard TAGDev Scholarship is a full-board comprehensive scholarship that covers: tuition, research costs, workshop and conference costs, living expenses including stipend and hostel, laptop, internship attachment, and entrepreneurship training.
Eligibility Criteria:
- Be a national of Kenya and Uganda to benefit from the national respective scholarship quota
- Be a refugee residing in Uganda and Kenya to benefit from a regional quota
- Be from economically disadvantaged, marginalized communities, coming from conflict and post-conflict areas.
- Be less than 25 years for undergraduate and less than 30 years for masters studies at the time of application.
- Be 29 years and below for a refugee and persons with disability for undergraduate studies and 34 years and below for refugees and persons with disability for masters studies at the time of application.
- Should have completed secondary school and/or diploma for a Bachelors degree application not more than two years from the time of this call.
- The applicant should meet admission criteria to eligible programs in the university of choice (Egerton University or Gulu University).
- Demonstrate interest in agriculture, agribusiness and entrepreneurship
- Demonstrate leadership qualities and commitment to service of humanity
Benefits:
- tuition fees, research costs, workshop and conference costs,
- living expenses including stipend and hostel, laptop, internship attachment,
- community engagement and field attachment, and entrepreneurship training.
Required Documents
Undergraduate
- BSc. Agriculture
- BSc. Food Bioscience and Agribusiness
- BSc. Biosystems Engineering
- BSc. Entrepreneurship and Communication Management
- BSc. Agricultural Education and Extension
- BSc. Science in Agriculture
Masters
- MSc. Food Security and Community Nutrition
- MSc. Agri-Enterprises Development
- MSc. Agronomy
- MSc. Biosystems Engineering
- MSc Environmental Studies
How to Apply?
Deadline: June 30, 2024
