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What is the Ehsaas undergraduate scholarship program?
What is the Ehsaas undergraduate scholarship program
This is the largest ever needs-based undergraduate scholarship programme in the history of Pakistan. Under this programme, every year, 50,000 students from low-income families will be awarded scholarships for 4-5, year undergraduate degree programmes
What will the scholarship cover
Scholarships will cover 100% of the tuition fee and living stipend (PKR. 40,000 per year)
Who can apply?
All students with family income less than 45,000, studying in any year of an undergraduate programme in public sector universities are eligible to apply.
At least, 50% scholarships have been reserved for female students. Two per cent scholarships will be exclusively awarded to students with disabilities
What are the selection criteria?
Selection will be merit and needs-based, i.e. based on the student’s GPA and family income.
Which universities are covered under this programme?
Students of all public sector universities will be eligible to apply if they fulfill the eligibility criteria
What is the geographic spread of this program?
All four provinces (including FATA), AJK and GB
For how long can a student get this scholarship?
The student’s academic performance will be monitored and subject to satisfactory academic progress, scholarship recipients will continue to receive scholarship throughout their undergraduate programme
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How will the tuition fee and stipend be paid?
The tuition will be paid directly to the University whereas the living stipend will be paid in the bank account of the student after necessary verifications
How will transparency be ensured
Details of the scholarships will be available on the Ehsaas as well as HEC web-portals.
How is this different from other Scholarship programmes running in the country?
This programme represents three major paradigm shifts in the scholarship policy of the government. First, this is the largest-ever needs-based scholarship program. It is reserved for students from low-income families, in order to enable them to aspire for higher education. Only a very small percentage of previous scholarships given by the government/HEC were needs-based.
Second, it is the largest-ever national scholarship program. In the last 14 years, HEC has awarded a total of 30,000 undergraduate scholarships, while this scheme will give 50,000 scholarships, every year.
Third, this scholarship focuses on enhancing the earning potential of the recipients. Past scholarships were aimed at postgraduate programs, i.e., they assumed that students would pay for undergraduate education on their own. The Ehsaas scholarship funds under-graduate education, which is the surest way to enable people to rise out of poverty, and which contributes the most to income generating potential.
What is the funding envelope for this program
Annually, a minimum of Rs. 5 billion will be allocated for the programme.
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