Introduction: As part of efforts to achieve the goals of Vision 20:2020 and the Transformation Agenda, the Federal Government of Nigeria is currently developing a critical mass of professionals who would serve as catalysts of change and agents of scientific and technological advancement, as well as sustainable economic development. This is being achieved through the sponsorship of outstanding students for postgraduate studies in the top 25 universities in the world. The PRESSID Implementation Committee now invites qualified candidates to apply for the third edition (2015/2016 academic session).
Value :
The value of each monthly scholarship
Eligibility
Eligibility requirements are as follows:
- be graduates from the 2011/2012 and 2012/2013 academic sessions, who would have completed their National Youth Service by October 2014;
- have obtained First Class Honours degree from any recognised and approved University in the following disciplines and aim at postgraduate degrees in the specified and allied programmes:
- Sciences: Nuclear Physics, Operations Research, Industrial Chemistry, Quantitative Genetics, Biometrics, Molecular Biology, etc; Medicine*: Clinical Sciences, Dentistry, Oncology, Human Genetics, Forensic Medicine, Physiotherapy, Hepatology, Nuclear Medicine, Geriatrics, ophthalmology, etc.;
- Veterinary medicine*: Veterinary Parasitology, Theriogenology, Public Health, etc;
- Basic Medical Sciences: Biochemistry, Physiology, Dentistry, Anatomy, Medical Biochemistry, Human Nutrition, Nursing Science, Anatomic and Molecular Pathology, Biomedical Engineering, Medical Microbiology, Physiotherapy, Pharmacology, etc;
- Pharmaceutical Sciences*: Drug formulations, Natural products, Drug design, Phytochemistry, Ethnopharmacology, Pharmaceutical Microbiology, etc;
- Accounting/Actuarial Science: Financial Accounting, Management Accounting, Forensic Accounting, Petroleum Accounting, Cost & Management Accounting, Environmental Accounting, etc;
- Economics: Econometrics, Development Economics, Micro Economics, Macro Economics, Applied Economics, Labour Economics, etc;
- Engineering: Aeronautical Engineering, Mechatronics, Control Systems, Material Science and Production Engineering, Nanotechnology, Process Engineering, Energy Systems Engineering, Refinery Design and Operations, Subsea Engineering, Thermal Power (Gas Turbine Option), Reservoir Analysis, Drilling Optimization, Chemical Process Dynamics & Control, Process Modelling and Simulations, etc;
- Computing and Information Technology: Intelligent Robotic Systems, Computer Systems and Software Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Cyber-Security, etc.
- not be above 30 years of age by October 2014;
- be computer literate; and
- be ready to be bonded and to work, preferably, as academic staff in any public university or research institute for a minimum period of five (5) years.
Universities that are involved
University of Cambridge
United Kingdom
Harvard University
United States
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
United States
Yale University
United States
University of Oxford
United Kingdom
Imperial College London
United Kingdom
UCL (University College London)
United Kingdom
University of Chicago
United States
University of Pennsylvania (UPenn)
United States
Columbia University
United States
Stanford University
United States
California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
United States
Princeton University
United States
University of Michigan
United States
Cornell University
United States
Johns Hopkins University
United States
McGill University
Canada
ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)
Switzerland
Duke University
United States
University of Edinburgh
United Kingdom
University of California, Berkeley (UCB)
United States
University of Hong Kong (HKU)
Hong Kong
University of Toronto
Canada
Northwestern University
United States
The University of Tokyo
Japan
University of California, Los Angeles
United States
Carnegie Mellon University
United States
University of Washington
United States
Deadline:
18th October 2014
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