Category Archives: master’s

DAAD MASTER OF INTERNATIONAL AND DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS (MIDE)

Application Deadline: 31 August, 2024

LOCATION: Germany

HTW Berlin, the largest university of applied sciences in Berlin, offers an 18-month full-time Master’s degree programme in “International and Development Economics” (MIDE), taught entirely in English. Designed for students from developing and transitional countries as well as from Germany and other developed countries with a special interest in the economic challenges facing “third world” countries, the programme prepares students to work in areas related to global economic affairs and development.

ELIGIBILITY:

Bachelor’s degree*

Proficiency in English

The first degree must be equivalent to a three-year German Bachelor’s degree (180 ECTS). It is highly recommended that applicants get in touch with the MIDE office (mide@htw-berlin.de) to find out whether the degree from a foreign country is equivalent.

Applicants with three years of study (180 ECTS) or the equivalent either must study an additional 30 ECTS at the university or prove that they have completed at least one year’s professional employment or training since graduating. Applicants with an equivalent of three and a half or more years (210 ECTS) of study do not need to prove professional experience or take additional modules.

Applicants for a DAAD scholarship must come from a developing country and have at least two years of professional experience since graduation, but should not have graduated more than six years ago.

BENEFIT:
Approx. 900 to 1,000 EUR monthly.

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UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE DORCAS MCCLEAN SCHOLARSHIP

Application Deadline: 12 August, 2024

LOCATION: Australia

The Dorcas McClean Scholarship, worth up to $40,000, supports candidates for admission to an approved institution at the university of Melbourne. This opportunity is open to both domestic and international applicants.

ELIGIBILITY:

Applicants must be between 17 and 25 years of age Domestic and international students

Undergraduate, Honours, Graduate coursework, Graduate research for Future and Current study

be a violinist aged no older than 25 and no younger than 17 (as of 2 February 2025), and resident in Australia for no less than two years at 2 February 2025.

eligible for admission to a course of study at an institution approved by the Academic Board on the recommendation of the head of the school of Music in the faculty; or

under the supervision of a teacher approved by the Academic Board on the recommendation of the head of the school of Music; or

be a graduate or undergraduate of the University.

BENEFIT:

A one-off payment of up to $40,000 towards studies at another institution approved by the University of Melbourne. Runner-up and third-placed candidates will receive $10,000 and $5000 respectively.

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