MTN Scholarship Scheme 2024
Apply For The MTN Nigeria Foundation Science and Technology Scholarship
MTN Scholarship Scheme is currently open for application from eligible applicants for the 2024 academic session.
MTN Nigeria Foundation Science and Technology Scholarship
The scholarship Scheme was established by MTN Nigeria Communications Limited in July 2004 to drive MTN Nigeria’s Corporate Social Investment (CSI) initiatives aimed at improving the quality of lives in communities across the country.
This foundation invites applications from high performing full time second year students studying in public tertiary institutions (universities, polytechnics and colleges of education) in Nigeria. The scholarship provides financial assistance to students who might otherwise be unable to pay for their tertiary education and aims to recognize and reward academic excellence.
Impact of the Scholarship
The Foundation is funded by up to 1% PAT (Profit after Tax) from MTN Nigeria and deploys a unique brand of wide impact and project-driven corporate social investment programmes which have won several accolades.
It has also created a vibrant network of local and international partner organisations through which its various projects are executed.
Through its efforts, the MTN Foundation has made huge impact and has become a model for good corporate citizenship, endorsed by a wide variety of stakeholders, Government, Regulators, Tax authorities, and the beneficiaries of its numerous projects.
The scholarship is renewed every year until graduation for existing awardees provided they have maintained a minimum of 3.5CGPA/3.0GPA or its equivalent (Second Class Upper/Upper Credit) while new applications when advertised are welcome from full time students in their second year and second semester of study.
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Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants must be Nigerian
- Applicants must be full time third year students studying in public tertiary institutions (universities,
polytechnics and colleges of education) in Nigeria. - Applicants must have maintained a minimum CGPA of 3.5 or its equivalent (second class upper/upper credit)
- Applicants from public Polytechnics must have a minimum Grade Point Average(GPA) of 3.0(upper credit)from
the Ordinary National Diploma programme and must have secured admission into the Higher National Diploma(HND). - Direct entry level students must have a minimum Grade Point Average (GPA) of 3.0(upper credit ) from the OND programme and must have secured an admission into 300level/3rd year in public university
Field/Area of Study
Applications are welcomed only from students studying any of the following courses:
MTN Scholarship Scheme Eligible Courses |
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| Accountancy/Accounting | Electrical/Electronics Engineering |
| Agric. Extension and Rural Development | Electronics and Computer Technology |
| Agricultural Science | Electronics Engineering |
| Agronomy | Engineering Physics |
| Animal Breeding and Genetics | Industrial Mathematics |
| Animal Nutrition | Industrial Physics |
| Animal Production and Health | Information Technology |
| Aquaculture and Fisheries Management | Mathematics |
| Applied Physics | Mechanical Engineering |
| Architecture | Metallurgical and Materials Engineering |
| Chemical Engineering | Petroleum and Gas Engineering |
| Civil Engineering | Physics Electronics |
| Computer and Electronics | Geophysics |
| Computer and Information Science | Physics/ Computational Modeling |
| Computer and Mathematics | Pure/ Applied Physics |
| Computer Engineering | Statistics |
| Computer Science | Statistics and Computer Science |
| Electrical Engineering | System Engineering |
How to Apply For MTN Nigeria Scholarship Scheme
Interested and qualified candidates should visit MTN Nigeria Foundation official website for additional information and to apply
Note
Candidates are required to upload a copy of their recent passport photograph (maximum file size of 600kb)
Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted and MTNF bears sole responsibility for final selection of successful beneficiaries.
Application Deadline
Application for the Scholarship scheme will most likely commence between September 2024/October 2024
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