Posted at 1:39 AM Sunday, August 8, 2010 by Khan
USAID Funded Merit and Need Based Scholarships

Eligibility Criteria

  • Financial assistance & scholarships are available to study at graduate level(MBA/MS (Agriculture)}.

  • The eligibility for the program is assessed on the neediness of the candidate & his/her family background.

  • Student should be able to compete for securing admission in the approved discipline at the participating institution as per admission policy of the institution and be enrolled in Graduate (2 Years) programs.

How to Apply

HEC & USAID looks forward to support needy students in sharing educational expenses. However please note that under this scholarships scheme the funds are not transferred directly to students by HEC or USAID. The payment is made to needy students through participating institutions .Please note the partial scholarship for already enrolled students is currently not covered under this project.

Scholarship Award Process

  1. After securing admission, a student has to fill out scholarship form provided by the Scholarship Aid Office of the participating institutions and submit it along with the supporting documents at the institution.

  2. Data and supporting documents of the potential candidate are reviewed by Institutional Scholarship Award Committee (ISAC).

  3. The ISAC recommends potential candidates to HEC Scholarship Management Committee (SMC).

  4. The cases are presented to Scholarship Management Committee (SMC) that approves the cases after through review. The committee includes top Executives of HEC, representatives from the participating institutions, eminent scholars and a senior member from USAID, Pakistan. After finalization of awardees’ list, the scholarship fund for the selected students are transferred to participating institutions for onward disbursement to students.
Introduction

HEC aims to elevate the socio-economic position of the needy & deserving students by providing access to quality education through needs-based scholarships. Government of Pakistan has also duly acknowledged the financial constraints barring students from acquiring higher education and has thus earmarked substantial funds for the improvement of education sector.

In pursuance of the Government’s initiative of providing financial relief to meritorious but deprived students, an agreement of US$ 7.33 million in July 2004 is signed with United State Agency for International Development (USAID) to provide grant for scholarships in the field of Agriculture and Business Administration at undergraduate & graduate level.

Objectives

Scholarship Details

The scope of the project includes 1407 number of scholarships for the students who meet the eligibility criteria. The scholarships are bifurcated as follows:

Under-graduate Graduate
Agriculture (756) 285 471

Business Administration (651)

 240 411

 Total 1407

The Merit and Needs based Scholarship Project has been in operation since 2004. Eleven (11) public & private institutions are participating in the program while more than 990 scholarships have been successfully awarded at the participating institutions.

*The undergraduate scholarship slots have been fully utilized only graduate level {MBA/MS (Agriculture)}scholarship slots are currently available

Scholarship Offering

Comprehensive scholarship is offered under the program. The scholarship provides funds for the following expenses:

1. Tuition fee, 2. Lodging
3. Transportation, 4. Books
5. Incidental costs.

Students at both private & public sector institutes have found the scholarship extremely helpful in sustaining their educational expenses.

Terms & Conditions

Participating Institutions

Eleven leading national institutes are participating under the current phase of Merit and Needs based Scholarship Project. Details of the participating institutions are as under:

Agriculture

  1. University of Agriculture, Faisalabad.

  2. NWFP Agriculture University, Peshawar.

  3. Sindh Agriculture University, Tandojam.

  4. University of Arid Agriculture, Rawalpindi

    Business Administration

  5. Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad.

  6. Institute of Business Administration (IBA), Karachi.

  7. Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology (SZABIST), Karachi.

  8. Institute of Business Administration (IBA), Sukkur.

  9. Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), Lahore.

  10. Balochistan University of Information Technology & Management Sciences, Quetta.

  11. Institute of Management Sciences, Peshawar.


    All candidates who have secured admissions at the participating institutions and intend to apply for said scholarship program may contact the below mentioned focal persons of the participating institutions regarding further information:

    S#

    Institution Name

    Focal Person Name

    Telephone Number

    Ext

    E-Mail

    1

    University of Agriculture, Faisalabad.

    Brig.(Retd) Muhammad Javed Anwar

    041-9200161-70

    2003 & 3605

    dd_uaf@yahoo.com

    2

    NWFP Agriculture University, Peshawar.

    Prof. Dr. M. Afzal.

    091-9216532

    mafzaldt@yahoo.com

    3

    Sindh Agriculture University, Tandojam.

    Mr. Muhammad Iqbal Solangi

    0221-766356/ 765870

    316

    planning@sau.edu.pk

    4

    University of Arid Agriculture, Rawalpindi. .

    Dr. Ikram Ali

    051-9062202, 9290406,

    fao@uaar.edu.pk; ikram@uaar.edu.pk

    5

    Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad.

    Ms. Farah Naz

    051-90642005

    zulfiqar@qau.edu.pk

    6

    Institute of Management Sciences, Peshawar.

    Mr. Shaheryar Khan

    091-9217452/ 9217404

    sheheryar@imsciences.edu.pk

    7

    IBA, Karachi.

    Mr. Moeed Sultan

    021-9243414, 111422422

    270

    msultan@iba.edu.pk

    8

    SZABIST, Karachi.

    Mr. Anwar-ul-Haq

    021-5830447-8, 111-922-478

    anwar@szabist.edu.pk

    9

    IBA, Sukkur.

    Mr. Zahid Hussain Khand.

    071-5630272,5633490

    zahid@iba-suk.edu.pk

    10

    LUMS, Lahore.

    Ms. Shamaila Kanwal

    042-5722670-9

    2869

    shamaila@lums.edu.pk

    11

    BUITMS, Quetta.

    Mr. Muhammad Shah Khan

    081-2880585/880432

    465

    muhammad.shah@buitms.edu.pk