Application Deadline: December 10, 2016
Are you a student from Sub-Saharan Africa who has demonstrated academic talent and a personal commitment to giving back to your country, but you face significant economic barriers to higher education? If so, we invite you to apply to the MasterCard Foundation Scholars Program.
If you are selected, you will receive a scholarship equivalent to the costs of attaining a Bachelor’s degree, including travel, tuition, textbooks, housing, food and living expenses. You will also receive financial, academic, social and post-graduation support which will enable you to gain the experiences and skills you need to succeed.
The University of Toronto and the MasterCard Foundation have partnered to offer the MasterCard Foundation African Scholars Program. The program provides full scholarship opportunities at the University of Toronto for economically disadvantaged youth who have excellent academic potential and a strong desire to create lasting development within their respective regions.
Eligibility
The MasterCard Foundation Scholars Program is open to students who are residents and citizens of a Sub-Saharan Africa country. You must be a first-time applicant to the University of Toronto who has not yet begun university study elsewhere. If you are a transfer student, you are not eligible for the program.
In order to be eligible, you must meet all of the following criteria:
- Be a resident and a graduating high school student of a country within Sub-Saharan Africa
- Demonstrate financial need correspondent to that of the lowest two quintiles of your country
- Have very strong academic results within your school system
- Have a record of leadership and extracurricular involvement
- Maintain a strong desire to return to Africa to assist and work towards enhanced regional socioeconomic development
- Be graduating from a recognized secondary school, or have completed the necessary academic requirements
- Fulfil the necessary English requirements (dependent on country)
Please note that both academic and English requirements differ based on the country and educational system you are coming from.
Benefits:
- The scholarship will provide full expenses related to travel, tuition, books, food, housing, living expenses and any other program related expenses, for the duration of a four year undergraduate program.
- Throughout the duration of the student’s undergraduate career, there will be a variety of academic and personal supports including mentoring and transition assistance programs. In addition, there will be internship, placement and travel opportunities included in the program.
How to apply
This scholarship opportunity is available for first-entry undergraduate programs in either the Faculty of Arts & Science or the Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering at the St. George campus.
Applications for the 2017-2018 academic year are now open. The deadline to apply is Deadline to apply is December 10, 2016.
A completed application includes the following components:
- A completed online application – all applicable sections must be filled out, including contact information, financial information, personal details and responses to essay questions.
- Financial documents – upload a scanned copy of financial documentation.
- Transcript – upload a scanned copy of your secondary school transcript and any other academic information.
- Two references – provide the names and contact details of two individuals who will serve as your referees. We will contact your referees directly and ask them to submit their letter of reference through a secure website.
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243 comments
Would like to study masters in arts
Please do you offer postgraduate in law. Thanks
Minimum entry for application please, advice ,and duration?
Are there no postgraduate opportunities similar to this one??
am interested in a masters program,any room for that?
I am really in need of this Toronto University scholarship. I will highly appreciate if i am selected.
Hi,I’m Queen Bianca fro Zimbabwe.l want to apply for Toronto too but l can’t seem to get to correctly fill the academic section well please help.which format do l use for time period.if l put month and year its denying,how do l complete that section?
Thanks much for thinking about African students.My daughter would love to do masters in Ecotourism and hospitality. Is it available?
Are there any post graduate scholarship programmes
how grateful I will be if given the opportunity to attain the scholarship, I really need to study to your university under this program. is there development course? am from Malawi
I am very much interested,but there is no time.
i am interested for the mastercard scholars program
Hello.i ‘ m so intersed with your opportinity.i wish to participate in your scholarship,i ‘m Burundian thanks
My daughter dream has always been to study in Canada but I cannot afford it. She’s a 16years old plus wanted to study law with a good WAEC and NECO result in one sitting. She got an admission into Babcock University but I could not afford the fees, moreover she was an under age then. Please confirm if Nigeria is among the qualified Africa country so that I can apply.
on her behalf.
hello; I am very interested
What an opportunity once again for Africans, let’s grab this opportunity with both hands guys.am more than intrested myself
Good day Sir/madam,
I must say that am impressed and inspired by such a life building initiative. I am a Cameroonian who is business inclined Accounting and finance, I wish to findout if business students are eligible for this scholarship offered in Canada? reason been that only the faculty of science, art and engineering are been mention for the scholarship. Please i do wait on your kind reply.
Hi am Kenneth Baguma a Ugandan i managed to do my diploma and i could not do my degree program due to financial strains and i wish to continue am i eligible to apply
Thanks
Very interested in degree in law, will be gratefull if u consider me for your 2018 intake. Tinotenda Nechibvute
Thank you so much for the opportunity. I’m interested in the program too. I’m a Kenyan residing in its capital Nairobi and was kindly asking whether i’d find your offices here too..and If there is one,then the address would do me good too. Thank you in advance.
I find this programme interesting and would be blessed to be a part of it for my benefit and my countries as well. Thank you in advance for considering my reply, hope to hear from you soon. Kind Regards Richmond
Please can the use only school transcript without using West Africa examination certificate because I have not yet written it and your deadline is on 10th December
My name is henry am pleased to know about this opportunity , do you offer courses in global logistics .
Can’t say anything….this is really nyc …..
This is good for our continent Africa. Thank you initiators,
Please I want to know if master’s program in Agriculture is inclusive. From Nigeria.
Hie I’m currently on my 2nd yr of my honors degree in HRM, was asking if I could transfer and still continue from 2nd yr on another university abroad…
please is there any online courses which are free and how can enroll it
Very interesting I hope to do MSC there
Am very interested and hoping my application will be accepted
It’s amazing how Nigerians are trying to hog it but they don’t qualify. The advert said under-graduate sub-Saharan Africa . Most of you who commented don’t qualify. Why do Africans believe they must always tell some pitiful scary story to get favour. Africans stop it, and it’s not always about God. Before you comment, or comment at all and southern Africans apply.
Hello,
Please are there any post graduate scholarship program?
If yes, please am very much interested
Thank you
how long are these courses
How many students are selected for the scholarship
I am interested but how do I apply
Are there any online business programs being offered whilst you are zimbabwean citizen
Is medicine available?
Do you also offer scholarships for masters/postgraduate degrees? If you do, may I kindly have the details so that I can apply.
Interested in Masters degree programmes, any link, Field of Social Sciences
I would like this initiative but it seems that I’m not qualified as I already have a university degree and an informal job experience in accounting. That not withstanding, I’m very interested in this program.
Very much interested in your offer. Would be grateful if you consider my application.
From: Lydia Mtero
Any health related course or catering course, then is Nigeria inclusive. Thanks
Do you offer scholarships to those who graduated some years back..
I am interested in the scholarship and would like to pursue a career in Actuarial Science. I hope I will be able to benefit from this program as I have tried other avenues that have given undesired feedback.
Thank you
Tanzanians are legible to apply? If yes is there a international Relations course?
Di you offer post graduate programmes
My name is Kennedy from Kenya. My plan is to do a online course on project planning. Do you have such a course? And if yes what can I do to start.
Thus the scholarship cover degree in nursing
I am interested .how do I go about it
Good day am a final year nursing student graduating in 2017 and which to study master in public health in your institute don’t know if that is possible
Hello,Are Nigerians eligible for the scholarship program?
Yes Nigeria is a sub-Saharan African country.
hello im interested
Thank you very much for this great opportunity. Please I want to know if someone that already have national diploma in financial accounting can also apply.
hello i finished my high school this year am from Rwanda am interested can you help me how i can apply thanks as am waiting your positive response