Applying for Scholarships: The Comprehensive Guide

    Updated on: 11 Sep 2023 7 min read

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    What other factors should we take into considerations for an apt scholarship?

    An excellent Letter Of Recommendation can add an x-factor to your candidature. Ask your teachers, mentors, colleagues or coaches to write a good letter of recommendation for you. LoR is basically a letter written by a higher authority besides your family member vouching for your good behavior, good academics, growth and various other qualities of yours. A good LoR differentiates you from other students and therefore increases your chance of getting a scholarship. For more about LoR, you can read here.

    Do organizations outside the universities offer scholarships for targeting studies in the US

    Here are a few scholarship programs that students of Indian nationality can apply for:

    1. GyanDhan Scholarship - To make abroad education more accessible to bright students, GyanDhan provides a scholarship of INR 1 Lakh to 1 student. It is a one-time reward that is offered to a student at the start of the academic year. The selected student gets the scholarship for the postgraduate program, notwithstanding of the course and the country. It’s a merit-based scholarship presented to the student with excellent academic records and caliber. The scholarship is given based on the solitary discretion of GyanDhan.
    2. The Fulbright-Nehru Master’s Fellowships - This fellowship aims at providing aid to Indian students trying to pursue master’s degree in the US in the areas of Arts and Culture Management including Heritage Conservation and Museum Studies; Environmental Science/Studies; Higher Education Administration; International Legal Studies; Public Administration; Public Health; Urban and Regional Planning; and Women’s Studies/Gender Studies.
    3. Obama Foundation Scholars Program - Obama Foundation and the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy, USA hosts this scholarship program. It aims at helping students from all over the world to fulfill their dreams of doing MS from a US university.
    4. RD Sethna Scholarship - This program helps the students to pursue higher studies in the US by providing them with loan scholarships. This enable students to take up higher studies in the fields of scientific, technical, industrial or commercial studies.
    5. Charles Legeyt Fortescue Fellowship - An amount of $24,000 is allocated to the students who apply for this program. This fellowship is available for students pursuing engineering. It is hosted by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering and is strictly for students aiming at US universities.

    There are N-number of such programs, which aim at providing better education to students who dream big. More information about scholarship programs is present in this article. Besides, this you can also browse through the extensive Scholarship Database of GyanDhan, containing more than 2,000 scholarships and find one for you!

     

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