In their goal of promoting international development, many donor organizations and institutions focus on building the capacities of developing nations through higher education. For this purpose, a number of donor agencies offer scholarship programs specifically for developing countries. Some of the most popular and largest of these programs are provided by ADB-Japan, World Bank-Japan, Japan-IDB, and DAAD.

To promote education in their own countries as well as to promote development cooperation, Governments of developed nations are also known to provide scholarships for developing country students. Some of these programs include the Fullbright Foreign Student Program, Netherlands Fellowship Program, Norwegian Quota Scheme, and the Australian Development Scholarships (ADS).

Education grants and awards of Government and donor agencies are often administered through partner Universities or academic institutions. It is also important to know that there are Universities that implement their own scholarship programs for developing countries aside from those that they administer in behalf of donor agencies. Some of the notables ones are the University of Nottingham (United Kingdom), University of Ghent (Belgium), and University of Westminster (United Kingdom).

Thus to help them with their search, developing country students are encouraged to look into:

(a) Universities that have special scholarship schemes for developing countries and
(b) Universities that administer grants/awards of Government and donor agencies.

How then do you find these Universities? You can visit the websites of Universities and see if they have special scholarship programs for developing countries or your own country. Or you can also visit the websites of major donor agencies and find out which Universities are participating in their subsidized education programs.

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