India Leads in Number of Targeted European Union Scholarships
73 Indian students have received scholarships under the Erasmus Mundus programme. This has been the highest number since its inception 14 years ago.
The Erasmus Mundus programme for postgraduate study will offer help EU institutes of higher learning to expand their horizons. They will be offering grants to students from 128 countries around the world.
India has quickly climbed the ladder in the list. In 2004, only 5 students received the scholarship and the number has not been below 60 students since 2014.
According to the reports, since last year there has been a 15% increase in the number of students getting the scholarships. A total of 73 students got a scholarship this year which is the highest since the programme was introduced 14 years ago.
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Last year India came in at second place while Brazil topped the list with a number of scholarships as high as 79 followed by India with 63. Third in the list was Iran with 59, Bangladesh was fourth with 58 and Mexico was placed 5th with 49 scholarships.
Pavan Sriram, Global Head and President of Erasmus Mundus Scholarships, said that over 1,500 Indian students have benefitted from the same.
The Department of European Studies at the Manipal Academy of Higher Education will introduce the master's programme in European studies. The master programme will provide students with an option to pursue the first year of studies in Manipal and an option to pursue the same in Europe at one of its partner university with scholarship or complete fee waiver.
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More than 3,000 Indian institutes of higher education have become the members of the Erasmus+programme since its inception in 2014.