How to apply for a scholarship

So you have decided to apply for a scholarship lasting one year or longer. This implies a long, difficult and exhausting process. We have put together a time schedule that should help you work your way through the application jungle. Your preparation should start more than one year in advance than the date when you actually want to start your studies. When building this schedule, we have taken into account for reference a university that starts in the autumn (August – October), but many universities around the world admit students also in January and April.

Since you want to study at a university, the first and earliest step should be deciding where you want to study. In some cases, you have friends that went abroad earlier and from the info you have gathered from them and other sources you are certain about the place where you want to study. Happy you. You just saved a lot of work. Let’s see what happens if you don’t get so lucky. First, you should figure out what subject you want to study, like anthropology, mathematics, etc. It should have some connection with the subject you have studied so far, or have a good argumentation for the change of direction you intend. Also decide the kind of program you want to follow: undergraduate, master’s, PhD, etc. If you don’t have a master, you still can apply for a PhD directly, but usually your first years of study will be a master. In US, Master’s programs (MA – Master of Arts, MSc – Master of Science, differs according to the subject) typically last for two years, while in the UK the program lasts for twelve full months, with the summer reserved for writing your thesis. You will of course meet exceptions from this classification. In both cases you will have to write a thesis as part of the graduation requirements. The MPhil is a degree strongly oriented towards research, usually done as the first part of PhD studies. The MBA – Master of Business Administration – is a graduate business studies program with a strong practical orientation. A few years of job experience are normally required when applying for an MBA.

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