Best Scholarships for Foreign Students..
There are several international scholarship programs offered by several colleges across the nation. The five best scholarships for foreign students as recommended on the website www.foreignborn.com are:
5 Best Scholarships for Foreign Students
1. Scholarship Experts: www.Scholarshipexperts.com offers graduate, undergraduate, and high school level scholarships to international students in the form of fee waivers, tuition fee reduction, and stipends. Several senior study scholarships are also available here. One needs to submit the study information and foreign scholarship requirements online, and Scholarship Experts searches for the best international scholarship and provides all details with respect to the eligibility criteria, qualifying tests, other requirements, and the process of application and follow up.
2. Financial Aid for Undergraduate International Students at NAFSA: These international scholarships are aimed at undergraduate students who require study abroad scholarships. These have stringent eligibility criteria in terms of academic achievements, chosen subjects of study, enrollment for further education, and need for financial aid. Information about foreign scholarships and grants, the funding factors, sources, tax information, and financial aid information for foreign students is provided on the website www.nafsa.org.
3. International Education Financial Aid Website: This website is one of the best sources of advice on international scholarships or study abroad scholarships. This site contains a variety of information needed for students seeking international scholarships, like details about the grants, college scholarships, and foreign scholarships. One can search through a comprehensive list of grants and scholarships, as well as international student loan programs.
4. Rotary International Scholarships: Rotary's Ambassadorial scholarships are another scholarship for foreign students. The Rotary International Scholarships program is the oldest of all the scholarship programs and has been in effect since the 1940s. This program aims at improving international relationships among people of different nationalities. The program offers international scholarships for graduate and undergraduate studies. Scholarships for non-Canadians, study abroad scholarships, and many other types of foreign scholarships are offered through Rotary International.
5. U.S. Federal Government Financial Aid for Foreign Students: To receive federal aid (U.S. national government) for student financial aid programs, one must be an eligible citizen or non-citizen, must have a high school diploma, must be enrolled as a regular student and be registered for selective services. There are several other eligibility requirements for these study abroad scholarships offered by the U.S. federal government. By fulfilling these selection criteria, one can get several steps closer to living that American dream. However, if you are in the United States on an F1 or F2 student visa only, or on a J1 or J2 exchange visitor visa only, you cannot obtain student financial aid from the U.S. federal government.
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
Best Scholarships for Foreign Students
Friday, November 26, 2010
Schorship Opportunities on Scholarship Experts
Schorship Opportunities on Scholarship Experts .
Finding College Scholarships on Scholarship Experts...........
If you're looking for customized school scholarships results and don't care what you have to fill out to get there, then ScholarshipExperts.com is the scholarship information website for you. The profile information it gathers is extraordinarily detailed. You won't just answer questions about your intended major or career after graduation; you'll also be asked about current affiliations, parental affiliations, club memberships, extracurricular activities, GPA, SAT, ACT, military service, awards, and much more. In many ways, filling out this form is like filling out a college application!
The menus themselves are not terribly user-friendly. There is no easy way to skip down to your desired entry. Instead, you have to scroll down all the way, through a bunch of unrelated options before you can select the one you want. It can also be difficult to know where to look, particularly amongst the majors and career choices: economics is listed as Social Science - Economics, meaning that if you're looking for "economics" in the large alphabetized list, you won't find it unless you know to look for "Social Science - Economics."
You will come across ads in the process of registering for an account. But unlike other websites, the ads don't get in the way of accessing the site. You're not in much danger of accidentally clicking your way to an advertising site. They will use your information for advertising purposes after you have signed up, but you can easily avoid the obvious sales pitches that they'll throw at you during the signup process.
Once you are logged in, the interface is really user-friendly. There is a well-designed access portal, which offers easy browsing. There are four sections: scholarship search, financial aid information, college search, and profile information. The scholarship search is excellent, very detailed and very comprehensive. There are good tools that help organize your results, including a favorites list and a discard pile. The college search section is also a useful tool. It isn't as detailed and easy to use as the school scholarships part of the site, but the information is still helpful. The financial aid information portion of the site redirects you to the government-run student aid site.
•Cost: Free.
•Access: Access to need based and academic scholarships.
•Scholarship Search Login: Required. Login forms are detailed and tedious to fill out. There are a few ads, but they are easy to circumvent.
•Information Security: Poor. They will collect your information, and they will use it to send you advertisements from subsidiaries.
•Custom scholarship search results: Yes, thanks to the exhaustive info entered into your profile.
•Scholarship Information Organization: Great. You can reorganize the scholarship information by any number of categories for easy browsing.
•Direct links to scholarship sites: Yes. Convenient links let you apply to many school scholarships online.
•Quantity of Scholarships: Impressive. When searched with very strict criteria, some 100 results still appeared. The website seems to gather even school scholarships offered by other online resources, which can be a big advantage.
•Tip: Consider the benefits of filling out the whole login form versus leaving parts blank. If you go through the entire form, the process is long. Cutting down on how many questions you answer could make it much easier - just be careful you don't cut down too much, and be sure to provide all the required information.
Monday, November 22, 2010
Four Indian-American students have been selected for the Rhodes Scholarships for 2011
Four Indian-American students have been selected for the Rhodes Scholarships for 2011
A scholarship is an award of financial aid for a student to further education. Scholarships are awarded on various criteria usually reflecting the values and purposes of the donor or founder of the award.
Four Indian-American students have been selected for the Rhodes Scholarships for 2011 for studying at the University of Oxford, the award which is widely considered the "world's most prestigious scholarship".
The Rhodes Trust yesterday named Aakash K Shah of New Jersey, Prerna Nadathur & Priya M Sury, and Varun Sivaram of California. Aakash K Shah, Cliffside Park, graduated from Ursinus College and is now in his first year at Harvard Medical School.
Prerna Nadathur, Roseville, is a senior at the University of Chicago where she majors in mathematics and minors in linguistics and philosophy.
Priya M Sury, Roseville, graduated from Washington University in St. Louis in May, summa cum laude, in anthropology and Spanish.
She is currently studying for an MD degree at the University of Minnesota.
Varun S Sivarum, Monte Sereno, is a senior at Stanford majoring in engineering physics and international relations.
A Truman Scholar and junior mentor at Phi Beta Kappa, Varun has won Stanford prizes for excellence in humanities and political science, as well as in engineering.
The thirty-two Rhodes Scholars chosen from the United States will join an international group of Scholars chosen from fourteen other jurisdictions around the world.
The Rhodes Scholarship, named after Cecil Rhodes, is an international postgraduate award for study at the University of Oxford in the UK.
It was the first large-scale programme of international scholarships, and is widely considered the "world's most prestigious scholarship" by many public sources such as Time Magazine and Yale University Press.
In addition to the thirty-two Americans, Scholars are also selected from Australia, Bermuda, Canada, the nations of the Commonwealth Caribbean, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Jamaica, Kenya, New Zealand, Pakistan, Southern Africa (South Africa, plus Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia and Swaziland), Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
Approximately 80 scholars are selected worldwide each year, including several non-US Scholars who have attended American colleges and universities.
The value of the Rhodes Scholarship varies depending on the academic field and the degree (BA, master's, doctoral) chosen.
The Rhodes Trust pays all college and university fees, provides a stipend to cover necessary expenses while in residence in Oxford as well as during vacations, and transportation to and from England.
Mr.Gerson estimates that the total value of the Scholarship averages approximately $50,000 per year.
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Scholarship for phd students from IIITDM
INDIAN INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
DESIGN AND MANUFACTURING KANCHEEPURAM
The Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design and Manufacturing, Kancheepuram (IIITD&M) was established in 2007 by the Government of India as a Centre of Excellence in the emerging areas of Design and Manufacturing. The IIITD&M is presently functioning in the IIT Madras Campus, Chennai and will move to its new campus at Kelambakkam-Vandalur Road, Chennai. The permanent academic, research cum residential campus is about 30 km from Chennai’s International Airport.
The Institute offers Ph.D. programmes in the disciplines of Computer Science and Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Mathematics, Mechanical Engineering and Physics. Strong expertise exists among the faculty on both the theoretical and experimental methods
of research.
The Scholars admitted to the Ph.D. programmes under the regular scheme (fulltime) are eligible for the Half-time Teaching/Research Assistantship (HTRA) under the following regulations:
(a) The scholars should work for 8 hours per week to earn this assistantship.
(b) Renewal of assistantship every semester will be contingent on enrolment,
satisfactory progress in research work and good performance during the preceding semester in the discharge of responsibility as teaching/ research assistant.
a) In Engineering for those with Master’s Degree in Engineering Rs.14,000/- p.m. for first 2 years &
Rs.15,000/- p.m. for next 2 years
b) In Engineering for those admitted directly with B.E / B.Tech degrees
Rs.12,000/- p.m. for first 2 years &
Rs.14,000/- p.m. for next 2 years
c) In Sciences
Rs.12,000/- p.m. for first 2 years &
Rs.14,000/- p.m. for next 2 years