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Thursday, June 4, 1998
Set your "sites" on a scholarship in the United States
For Indians to pay for studies in the United States could be prohibitively expensive as cost of attendance in the US universities ranges between $13,000 and $30,000 a year. But the good news is that most universities award full or partial scholarships to qualified students, waive tuition fee or offer part-time employment in university work or study programmes, which might be in the form of research or teaching assistantships.Many universities have special endowments for foreign students. While the best source of information on financial aid and other facets of higher education in America is the US Educational Foundation In India (USEFI), the Internet is also an outstanding source of information which is utilised lavishly by educational institutions. One of the following web sites may have the information you need. Financial aid resources: Financial Aid for International Students (www.finaid.org/finaid/focus/itl-stud.html)
International Education Finance Corporation(http://members.aol.com/IEFC)
NAFSA Association of International Educators (www.nafsa.org/nafsa/students/students. html)
The College Board Web Site (www.collegeboard.org/ie/html/index000.html)
Peterson's (www.petersons.com/stdyabrd/ sasector.html)
Yahoo Financial Aid Information (www.yahoo.com/Education/Financial Aid/)
SPIN SEARCH {Sponsored Programs Information Network}(www.drda.umich.edu/drda /online/ online.html)Resources for scholarships, grants and fellowships: National Science Foundation World Wide Server (www.nsf.gov)
Amherst College Foundation and Corporate Support Funding Information Office (www. amherst.edu/develop/resources/resmenu.html)
MacArthur Foundation (www.macfdn.org): This site offers a scholarship search. Please read the information provided here carefully. You may not have to pay for this service. A link to this service is also available from the UMKC Financial Aid Office home page.
Fellowship office of theNational Research Council (www.edu/fo.index.html): This is a search for fellowships which are open to international students such as the Howard Hughes Medical Institute pre-doctoral fellowship in biological sciences.
Financial Aid Information (www.finaid.org): A great source of general information.
Fast Web (www.fastweb.com): This is a database of 180,000 private scholarships. It E-mails you data on grants that match your profile updated daily. It asks you questions about yourself and then matches just one downside.Other selected Internet resources: American Universities (www.clas.ufl.edu/ CLAS/american-universities.html): A single source link to the home pages of hundreds of American colleges and universities. Links to lists of international and community colleges are provided as well.
MIT Media Laboratory (www.media.mit.edu/): The laboratory comprises both a degree-granting academic programme and a research programme organised in three areas: learning and commonsense, perpetual computing and information and entertainment.
SRI International -- Policy Division (www.sri. com/policy/): Founded as the Stanford Research Foundation in 1946, SRI is an independent, non-profit research, technology development and consulting organisation. The Policy Division includes a center for technology in learning and a center for education and human services.
US Department of Education (www.ed.edu): This comprehensive site provides information on the department's programmes priorities and services. Newsletters, journals, research syntheses, reports, guides, strategic plans, annual reports and studies are also available in full text. Since the site contains over 400 links to departmental resources, it is searchable and browsable. -- compiled by Soumya Sarkar Copyright © 1998 Indian Express Newspapers (Bombay) Ltd.
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