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RM1.24 billion for 1500 students for overseas study (average of RM826,667 per student).
The 1500 students were from a pool of 10,114 applicants (14.8% chance of getting selected). A total of 465,853 students sat the SPM examination last year and PSD received 18,844 applications for scholarships. Of this, 10,114 students met the minimum qualifications and criteria set by PSD.
The 1500 students are based on 4 categories: (i) academic excellence; (ii) racial ratio; (iii) Sabah and Sarawak bumiputra; (iv) socially disadvantaged group.
If you are selected under the (i) option: Academic excellence, it would be based on: academic performance (85%), co-curricular activities (10%) and Public Services Department interview (5%). No info on the other categories criteria is revealed.
Out of the 1500 students, 56% (840 students) will be given option to study critical courses such as medicine, dentistry, pharmacy and veterinary medicine. Balance 44% (660) will study engineering, architecture, accounting, law, biotechnology, agro-sciences, science, and information and communications technology.
Those offered scholarships in critical fields such as medicine, dentistry and pharmacy will go to Australia, New Zealand, India, the Czech Republic and Poland. Twinning programmes will be conducted with institutions such as the Penang Medical College, Melaka Manipal Medical College and International Medical University.
Students chosen for engineering degrees will go to institutions in France, Germany and the US.
Separately, there’s another 100 scholarship for top scorers who opt to study locally at Universiti Sains Malaysia, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Universiti Putra Malaysia and Universiti Malaya.
AND, another 1900 students will be offered place to study in IPTA and local branches of selected IPTS (University of Nottingham, Monash University, Swinburne University of Technology and Curtin University of Technology). These are the students who did not get the overseas scholarships offered to 1500 students.
Then, there’s another statement saying scholarship worth RM1.2 billion is to be offered to 10,500 students (RM114,286 per student) undertaking degree programs. No details on selection criteria, which IPTA/IPTS etc.
So, all in all, about 14,000 students will get scholarship. I wonder if it includes those under MARA sponsorship or not.
The Star: Govt offering scholarships worth RM1.24b to 1,500 top SPM students
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