Overseas Scholarships
Posted by Celine WanHello all,
It has been a long time since I last posted about education or anything serious, mainly because I was in university. Now that it is summer break, let me just update you all with stuff pertaining to education.
This post will be about overseas scholarships to fund your studies to the UK or US. Based on my observation, most corporate scholarships provide funding to UK and/or US because most “top 10 universities” tend to be from these countries. Please note the emphasis on “most, not all.”
Anyway the purpose of this post is because I noticed that it’s quite difficult to find all available scholarships that fully fund students abroad for their undergraduate studies. Weird, because even though there are many main websites that give you these, they are in a website that gives about hundreds of other different kinds of academic funding: some may just be partial scholarships; some are actually locals; some are to countries or courses you are not familiar with; some have already passed their deadlines or haven’t opened; and some may no longer exist such as Axiata. I don’t blame these service websites because it is only politically correct to list all available scholarships in Malaysia. In any case, if you intend to find the conventional “full scholarship to top university with Asian-approved course scholarship,” you’re in luck because I just shortlisted some of the most popular scholarships for you to apply to!
UK & US Full Scholarships for Malaysian Students / PicCredit |
Below is my own version when it comes to full scholarship compilations based on popular scholarships that students tend to choose (disclaimer: popular country and popular course doesn’t mean it’s the best choice for you). I have included the most updated scholarships available to my own knowledge, so there may be a few more scholarships that fully fund students abroad. Below are the scholarships that I actually see Malaysian students in the UK (namely London) actually hold— from year one till graduation—so it’s a very credible indicator that students actually go abroad fully funded by them. I excluded university-specific sponsorships and partial bursaries because students who really need financial assistance tend to look out for the services provided by the scholarship bodies as compiled by me.
Name of Scholarship
|
Website
|
Bond
|
Deadline (Based on 2014)
|
Course
|
Other Details
|
Khazanah Scholarship
|
Yes
|
March
|
Almost any course
|
Various Courses accepted
|
|
Shell Overseas Scholarship
|
No
|
February
|
Engineering (not limited)
|
Various Courses accepted
|
|
Jabatan Perkhidmatan Awam (JPA) Scholarship
|
Yes
|
July
|
Any Course
|
Application period for 7 days
|
|
Petronas Education Sponsorship Programme
|
Yes
|
June
|
Engineering (not limited)
|
Various Courses accepted
|
|
Bank Negara Malaysia Sponsorship Programme
|
Yes
|
March
|
Economics or Law
|
Application period for 7 days
|
|
Maybank Foundation Scholarship Award
|
Yes
|
March
|
Social Sciences & Technology
|
Various Courses accepted
|
|
Sime Darby Foundation Education Scholarship Programme
|
Yes
|
NA
|
Almost any Course
|
Usually Pre U sponsored first
|
|
Education Sponsorship Programme (ESP)
|
Yes
|
July
|
Social Sciences & Technology
|
Various Courses accepted
|
|
Maxis Undergraduate Scholarship
|
Yes
|
May
|
Social Sciences & Technology
|
For Maxis customers
|
|
Astro Scholarship Award
|
Yes
|
April
|
Not specified
|
For Astro customers
|
|
UEM Scholarship
|
Yes
|
April
|
Economics or Engineering
|
Application from Pre U only
|
|
Tenaga National Berhad Scholarship
|
Yes
|
March
|
Engineering
|
Civil, Mechanical, Electrical only
|
|
Securities Commission
|
Yes
|
April
|
Economics or Law
|
Various Courses accepted
|
|
Bank Pembagunan Scholarship
|
Yes
|
July
|
Social Sciences & Technology
|
Various Courses accepted
|
|
MyBrainSc Scholarship
|
Yes
|
January
|
Science or Maths
|
Degree, Masters, or PhD
|
|
Jeffrey Cheah Foundation-Sunway Group Scholarship
|
Yes
|
NA
|
Social Sciences & Technology
|
Various Courses accepted
|
|
Gamuda Scholarship Award
|
Yes
|
April
|
Engineering
|
Civil, Mechanical, Electrical only
|
|
MARA Scholarship
|
No
|
March
|
Any Course
|
Bumiputera only
|
Criteria of my filter: UK or US (most common countries to be sponsored); courses varies based on company’s need but they tend to be the conventional “Asian-approved” courses if you get what I mean (e.g Maths, Science, Econs, Law, Finance, Engineering, Medicine).
Lastly, it is worth to note the flexibility of these scholarship providers. There are many, many cases where these scholarship bodies fund students outside of the intended course they prefer to sponsor. For example there are a few students sponsored by BNM to study engineering, including me. Country of sponsorship is also something you can possibly alter. I am in no position to talk about other popular study destinations such as Australia, Canada, or Singapore because this is my own experience when dwelling in the scholarship-mania.