National ICT R&D Fund is offering fully funded scholarships for talented students

ISLAMABAD (MEDIA)

Ministry of Information Technology initiated National Information and Communication Technology ICT&D Fund in order to accelerate the development of ICT infrastructure for research, development and educational purposes.

National ICT R&D Fund is offering fully funded scholarships for talented students from rural/non-metropolitan areas of Pakistan with the objective to develop human resource capacity in ICT fields in Pakistan.

The Prime Minister’s National ICT Scholarship Program 2011 (Extended for Spring 2012) will provide fully funded 4 year undergraduate degree scholarships in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) related disciplines in the top ICT universities of Pakistan, and hence enhance capacity in the best ICT related educational institutions.

This program is run with the financial collaboration of Public Sector Development Program (PSDP) of Government of Pakistan.

The program has been successfully in operation since 2006. In order to accelerate the process and to cater the students who could not benefit for fall 2011, the program of the year 2011 has been extended for Spring 2012.

This year there will be no ICT Scholarship Award Test and it is the responsibility of a candidate to get admission at any of the Participating Universities.

The potential participating universities are:

  • Bahria University, Islamabad
  • Balochistan University of IT, Engineering & Management Sciences, Quetta
  • Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan
  • COMSATS Institute of Information Technology
  • Hamdard University, Karachi
  • NED University of Engineering and Technology, Karachi
  • Institute of Business Administration, Karachi
  • Institute of Business Administration, Sukkur
  • International Islamic University, Islamabad
  • The University of Balochistan, Quetta
  • Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology (SZABIST), Islamabad