The deadline to apply for Fulbright Advanced Degree Awards 2012 Masters and PhD scholarships has been extended from May 18 to June 15.
The decision was announced by United States Educational Foundation in Pakistan (USEFP) Executive Director Rita Akhtar at a media briefing here on Thursday.
Akhtar said, “We want to encourage students in remote and disadvantaged parts of the country to apply and that is the main reason we have extended the deadline till June 15.”
She said that the Fulbright scholarships are a flagship programme of the US Department of State and are funded by the USAID with an annual spending of $20 million. She added that more than 386 Pakistanis were currently studying in the US through the programme.
In 2012, 134 Pakistanis will get a chance to go to America for further studies. Under the programme, about 123 people were sent last year for further education. Of these 40 per cent were women.
“[The programme is] an example of the US government’s long term commitment to the education of Pakistanis as well as to increase mutual understanding between the two countries,” Akhtar said.
Since USEFP’s inception over 60 years ago, about 4,000 Pakistanis and 800 Americans have participated in different exchange programmes admistered by the foundation, Akhtar added.
She strongly encouraged, women, minorities, people with disabilities, students from the Federally Administered Tribal Areas and other remote or economically disadvantaged regions to apply. Save for clinical medicine, applications from all disciplines are eligible, with those wanting to pursue their degrees in energy, water and agriculture particularly encouraged to apply.
More information about the programmeme is availbale at their website.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 13th, 2011.
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