The Mandela Institute for Development Studies (MINDS) Postgraduate Scholarship Programme 2025 for Leadership Development (Funded)

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Application Deadline: Ongoing

Applications are actually open for the 2025 MINDS Scholarship Programme. The Scholarship Programme allows African college students to study in an African nation aside from their home nation and on this approach immerse themselves in richness and variety that the nation and its communities has to supply. By broadening entry to training, we see the growth of openness to concepts and the creation of a community of like-minded leaders who will assist promote the efficiency and tangible progress of our continent. There is little doubt {that a} extra built-in African financial system of world scale will speed up development, generate optimistic outcomes and profit all its communities.

Eligibility Criteria

MINDS Scholarships are awarded to meritorious candidates following a rigorous choice course of.  To be thought of for a MINDS Scholarship, you need to:

• Be a nationwide of an African nation, residing in any African nation
• Have been formally accepted by a number of MINDS most well-liked establishment/s outdoors of your nation of citizenship and/ or residency
• Have been formally accepted by a number of MINDS most well-liked establishment/s to pursue postgraduate research inside the following yr
• Have obtained no less than 70% in every topic/ course within the final two accomplished years of study
• Produce proof of demonstrated management skills or potential guided by the questions/ necessities set out within the application kind
• Submit an entire on-line application kind (see under) with the required supporting documentation.

Programme Details

MINDS’ presents scholarships to Africans who want to pursue post-graduate research inside Africa, outdoors of their very own nations. Through tailor-made management growth actions, the MINDS Scholarship Programme goals to nurture leaders who’ve a continental growth mindset; leaders who will facilitate higher cohesion and cooperation between African nations.

MINDS Scholarships are relevant to full-time research of a one or two-year Honors or Master’s diploma at one of many MINDS most well-liked establishments (listed under). MINDS doesn’t prescribe the course to be studied.

The Scholarship will cowl some or all the bills under, relying on whether or not a partial or full scholarship is awarded:

• Tuition
• Accommodation and meals
• One return ticket per period of research
• A hard and fast stipend.

Individuals with a Pan-African outlook, demonstrated management capacity and a very good tutorial document who want to study on the African continent, outdoors their home nation are invited to apply for the scholarships.

List of Preferred Institutions:

To be eligible to obtain a MINDS Scholarship, an applicant will need to have been accepted to study at one of many following establishments:

EAST AFRICA

• African Leadership University, Rwanda
• Carnegie Mellon University in Rwanda, Rwanda
• Makerere University, Uganda
• Strathmore University, Kenya
• Universidade de Cabo Verde, Cabo Verde
• Université Libre de Kigali, Rwanda

SOUTHERN AFRICA

• African Leadership University, Mauritius
• University of Cape Town, South Africa
• University of Mauritius, Mauritius
• University of Witwatersrand, South Africa
• Universidade Agostinho Neto, Angola

NORTH AFRICA

• Al Akhawayn University, Morocco
• Université Cadi Ayyad, Morocco
• Université Mohammed V, Morocco
• Cairo University, Egypt
• Ain Sharms University, Egypt
• Alexandria University, Egypt
• Assiut University, Egypt

WEST AFRICA

• University of Ibadan, Nigeria
• Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology, Ghana
• Pan-Atlantic University (Lagos Business School), Nigeria
• University of Development Studies, Ghana
• Institut National Polytechnique Félix Houphouët-Boigny, Ivory Cost
• Cheikh Anta Diop University, Senegal
• University of Ghana, Ghana

Application Procedure:

MINDS is at present receiving purposes from college students who begin their research within the coming tutorial yr. Interested people are invited to submit purposes as quickly as they obtain official acceptance from a MINDS most well-liked college at which they want to study. Applications shall be processed within the order they’re acquired.

If you meet the eligibility standards above, you may submit your application by clicking on the hyperlink under. Please have the next paperwork scanned, saved and prepared for importing. All paperwork uploaded should be in PDF format. Each attachment ought to not exceed 2MB in measurement.

• A duplicate of the info/ bio web page of your passport.
• An authorized tutorial transcript/ outcomes slip of the final two years of study.
• A duplicate of the official acceptance letter from the college. The letter should:
  • Be addressed to the applicant.
  • State the diploma which the applicant has been accepted to study.
  • State the tutorial yr at which the diploma will begin.
  • State the period of the course (e.g. one yr).
• A duplicate of a legitimate study allow or visa OR proof of application. (Optional)
• An in depth CV/ Resume of no more than 4 (4) single sided pages.
• Two reference letters (of no more than 3 pages every) addressing the applicant’s demonstration of integrity, their competency and/or potential as a pacesetter and their dedication to the event of the African continent.

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the MINDS Scholarship Programme