The Mastercard TAGDev Scholarship is a fully funded comprehensive scholarship to empower prospective African undergraduates.
The scholarship covers tuition, research costs, workshop and conference costs, living expenses including stipend and hostel, laptop, internship attachment, and entrepreneurship training.
Scholarship Summary
- Host: Mastercard Foundation
- Category: Undergraduate Scholarships | Postgraduate Scholarships | Masters Scholarships
- Eligible Countries: Uganda and Kenya
- Reward: Full Scholarship | Living Stipends | Accommodation | Laptop |Travel Costs
- No IELTS Required
- Deadline: April 1, 2025
Scholarship Details
The Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture (RUFORUM) in partnership with Mastercard Foundation and several other universities in Africa, is offering the Mastercard TAGDev Scholarship.
The Transforming African Agricultural Universities to Meaningfully Contribute to Africa’s Growth and Development (TAGDev 2.0) program seeks to strengthen universities and TVET institutions to better serve communities by skilling and empowering Africa’s young people and their institutions to drive inclusive, equitable and climate resilient transformation of agriculture and agrifood systems.
The program will support young African students that are economically disadvantaged but academically competent to enable them complete their studies.
Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible for this scholarship, applicants must:
- Be a national of Uganda and East African countries implementing the common East Africa Higher Education Protocol (Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi and South Sudan).
- Be economically disadvantaged, from marginalized communities, and/or coming from conflict and post-conflict areas in Uganda.
- Be less than 30 years for undergraduate and less than 35 years for master’s studies at the time of this call.
- Should have completed secondary school and/ or diploma for a Bachelor’s degree application not more than two years from the time of this call. For refugees and internally displaced persons, they should have completed their studies at the previous level at most four years before.
- The applicant should meet admission criteria to the eligible Programmes in Gulu University.
- Demonstrate interest in agriculture, agribusiness and entrepreneurship
- Demonstrate leadership qualities.
- Have commitment to working in agriculture and agricultural value chains.
- Have a strong commitment to community transformation.
- Female candidates are highly encouraged to apply.
Scholarship Benefits
Successful applicants of this scholarship will receive:
- 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
To apply for this scholarship, applicants must prepare:
Undergraduate
- BSc. Agriculture
- BSc. Food Bioscience and Agribusiness
- BSc. Biosystems Engineering
- Bachelor of Science in Food Bioscience and Agribusiness
- Bachelor of Business Administration
- Bachelor of Business Education
Masters
- MSc. Food Security and Community Nutrition
- MSc. Agri-Enterprises Development
- MSc. Agronomy
- Master of Science in Environmental Science and Natural Resources Management
How to Apply
To apply for this scholarship:
- Visit the scholarship webpage
- Applicants are encouraged to fill out the online application and print it out to attach to their application for admission to the university of choice.
- Access the Online RIMS Web Portal
- Create an account Here
- An email will be sent to your valid email address to activate your account
- Click Apply to start filling out the Application Form.
- Remember to save while filling out the form by “Clicking Save Draft”
- Download, print, and submit it with your application form for admission to the University of your choice.
- Depending on the University you are applying to, you may either submit the document in hard copy or simply attach it on the university online portal.
- For any assistance, kindly contact the administrator at mcf@ruforum.org
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