The Google Deepmind AI Scholarship offers students of African origin fully-funded awards covering full tuition fees, relocation stipends, equipment, and research costs.
Students benefit from full scholarships by studying at AIMS which gives them continuous access to computing, the internet, and electricity as well as close interaction with full-time tutors and visiting professors from across the world.
Scholarship Summary
- Host: Google
- Category: Postgraduate Scholarships | Masters Scholarships
- Eligible Countries: African Countries
- Reward: Full Scholarship | Tuition fees | Relocation costs | Monthly Stipends | Travel Costs
- Deadline: March 21, 2025
Scholarship Details
Google is offering fully funded scholarship opportunities through its Deepmind program at the African Institute of Mathematical Sciences to interested candidates.
Applications for the 2025 AIMS Google DeepMind Scholarships are open to students from across Africa who are passionate about mathematics, artificial intelligence, and machine learning.
The AI for Science Master’s program is a stream in AIMS South Africa‘s Master’s degree in Mathematical Science, made possible through a partnership with Google DeepMind.
Eligibility Criteria
To apply for this scholarship, applicants must:
- Be residents in Africa at time of application
- Be citizens of any country in Africa
- Nave completed a four-year undergraduate degree or a three-year undergraduate degree with an honors year by August 2025 (or December 2025 for southern African applicants.
- Not have held a previous scholarship to study at an AIMS center.
- Applicants undergraduate degree could be in physics, mathematics, statistics, computer science, engineering, or any other discipline with a strong computational and mathematical component.
Scholarship Benefits
Successful applicants of this scholarship will receive:
- A scholarship to fully fund their postgraduate degree at a partner university (up to two years)
- Stipend to cover housing and living costs
- Stipend for travel and relocation costs to attend the partner university
- Access to AI-related academic conferences and Google DeepMind events
- Insights and guidance from a mentor at Google DeepMind
Required Documents
To apply for this scholarship, applicants must prepare:
- Application Form
- Your curriculum vitae
- A motivation letter of around 500 words
- Academic transcripts
- Written mathematics questions (to be found on the application site)
- Coding problem (to be found on the application site)
How to Apply
To apply for this scholarship:
- Register at apply.aims.ac.za and upload the required documents (mentioned above) there before 11:59 PM on 21 March 2025.
- The online application includes a dozen short mathematics questions and one coding problem. It’s not an exam, but the questions give the selection panel some insight into how you approach problems.
- The final round consists of short online interviews in May 2025.
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