The MasterCard University of California, Berkeley Scholarships for African Students will provide holistic support – financial, academic, social, and career counselling – to students from Sub-Saharan Africa from 2020 to 2028.
Eligibility:
- Applicants must be a Sub-Saharan African student.
- Applicants must first be admitted to UC Berkeley to be considered for the Scholarship.
- Applicants must be extremely talented individuals who have no other means of acquiring the further education required to help realize their dreams and ambitions.
- Applicants must be extremely talented individuals who have no other means of acquiring the further education required to help realize their dreams and ambitions.
Eligible Countries:Â Sub-Saharan African countries
Type:Â Masters
Number of Scholarships: Not specified
Value of Scholarship:Â Fully-funded scholarship
*MBA students need to secure additional funding from Haas Business School through obtaining Haas scholarships, which requires meeting the Round One or Two application deadline. We encourage you to contact us if you are interested to learn more details about this unique process.
Eligible Fields of Study: Graduate Scholars are pursuing or have earned Master’s degrees in:
- Architecture (M.Arch) – Our priority is the two year, not three year program. Contact us
- Art (MFA)
- Business Administration (MBA)*
- City & Regional Planning (MCP)
- Development Practice (MDP)
- Education (DMS, EMST, or MUSE)
- Energy & Resources (ERG)
- Engineering (M.Eng, MS)
- Master of Engineering (M.Eng), various concentrations
- Master of Science Civil and Environmental Engineering (MS)
- Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (MS)
- Mechanical Engineering (MS)
- Master of Development Engineering (M.DevEng)
- Master of Design (M.Des)
- Folklore (MA)
- Journalism (MJ)
- Information Management & Systems (MIMS)
- Public Health
- Masters of Public Health (MPH), various concentrations
- Masters of Science (MS), Environomental Health Sciences and Epidemiology
- Masters of Arts (MA), Biostatistics
- Public Policy (MPP)
- Social Welfare (MSW)
- LL.M. Programs – Traditional and Thesis Track only
Method of Application: Apply Here
Application Deadlines:Â Masters: Varies by Program (Deadlines of applicable Fields of Study fall between November 2022 to January 2023).
