Scholarships- How can Kenyans obtain them?

Just a brief interaction with many Kenyan students and one of the many questions that pops out is how to obtain a scholarship.

True, there are thousands of scholarships out there although many people do not know of the scholarship opportunities available. In this article, we’ll explain scholarships in both Kenyan Universities and scholarships abroad. Unfortunately, we haven’t as yet profiled the scholarships available in middle level colleges.

Scholarships in Kenyan Universities.

Obtaining a scholarship to a Kenyan University may be a hard task in deed. First, nearly all government sponsored students are on some form of scholarship from the Kenyan government. One can also apply for a bursary from the Higher education loans helb (Helb). This is in addition to the loans that Helb usually advances to the University students. While the helb loan has to be repaid back, the bursary doesn’t have to be repaid back. These days, even students enrolled in the parallel degree programs and Private Universities can also apply for the Helb loans.

The rattansi fund also gives out bursaries to needy students. Another scholarship source is the USAID scholarship that usually sponsors a student for the whole undergraduate duration. World Vision is also a reliable source of scholarship. The EABL/ Guinness foundation scholarship can also be applied for. The scholarship covers the tuition fee for the whole undergraduate years. You will however need to study for certain courses in order to be given the scholarship. The degree choices are; Bachelor of commerce, Bachelor of business information technology and bachelor of information technology which are tenable at Strathmore University. You can also pursue a five year bachelor of engineering scholarship and a bachelor of Food Science scholarship tenable at a Kenyan Public University.

Scholarships offered in Universities abroad.

There are many scholarships offered in Universities abroad. For instance, the Ivy League Universities in the US are known to offer generous scholarships to students. You will however need to have outstanding grades or have some athletic, sports or extra curricular talent. In many of the elite Universities in the US, you will not be charged any fees if your family receives an income of less than $60,000 per year.( Less than kshs.400,000 per month.). At Yale University for example, you even get an air ticket to and fro home once per year. The elite Universities in which one can obtain a full scholarship includes Harvard, Yale, Princeton, MIT, Stanford, Brown, Columbia, Cornell, University of Pennsylvania, Dartmouth College, Smith college (women’s only college), mount Holyoke college( women’s only college), Williams College, Middlebury college, Vanderbilt, Swarthmore College, Duke, Xavier University, Rice University etc. You will also need to complete the steps needed to be accepted into these Universities. For instance, some of the steps include submitting the results of the SAT exam, the TOEFL exam, completing the online application process, submitting the teacher’s recommendations and submitting the application essays. It is actually easier to obtain an undergraduate and a PhD scholarship than to obtain masters scholarship.

One can also apply for scholarships in some other Universities as Ritsuimekan Asia pacific University in Japan, which offers a 100% tuition reduction scholarship to deserving students, the Chevening scholarship for masters students wishing to study in the UK, the Rhodes scholarship for masters students wishing to study at Oxford University.
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