Kenyan University scholarships- Are they really available?

It is fairly easy for an extremely talented student to secure a scholarship to an Ivy League institution in the US than it is for the same student to secure a full scholarship to Kenyan University. This trend, known as brain drain, has seen many brilliant Kenyan minds ply their trade away from the country, in effect enriching other countries while the country confronts many issues bedeviling it. To be sure, almost every student in Kenya’s public Universities is on some scholarship of some sort from the government. The government basically subsidizes about kshs.70, 000 per year of government sponsored student.

However, individual scholarships that are awarded on merit by Kenyan Universities are few and far between. The private Universities have a few of these, but they are few and far between. For instance, Strathmore University in conjunction with EABL, offers the Guinness scholarship for undergraduates wishing to pursue courses in business and information technology.

The Kenyan Universities would have in effect borrowed a leaf from their US counterparts, by giving some selected students full scholarships (especially for masters), and then getting the bragging rights once these students innovate something worthwhile or create world beating companies.

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