The SEARCA Masters (MS)/PhD Scholarship Programme has a goal to response the global needs of Southeast Asia’s agricultural scientist and professionals to sustain international developmental issues. In Philippines, the University of the Philippines (UP) Los Baños, UP Diliman, and UP Visayas are the host institutions. The fields of study the program offers includes agriculture and related fields (biological sciences, social sciences, economics and statistics, forestry and fisheries, environmental sciences, agro-industrial technology and engineering, biochemistry and development management). It opens to all Southeast Asians who should be regular employees of academic or research institutions or government agencies. The benefits would cover the tuition and other school fees, books and supplies allowance, thesis/ dissertation support, health insurance, travel allowance including international and domestic transportation, and a stipend of $400/month for food, boarding and emergency expenses. The said scholars must have a topic of research for their thesis that relevant to or in line with any of the priority thrusts of SEARCA namely the agricultural competitiveness, sustainable land use and water management and biodiversity conservation.
Application Procedure:
Applicants may submit their applications to their countries’ respective Ministries of Education, Higher Education, Agriculture, Forestry, Fisheries, Environment and Natural Resources, or Rural Development. Ministries will screen and endorse their applications and will be the one to submit the list of qualified applicants not later than July 30. Application could be also made online using the online application form. But for detailed information about how to apply on the scholarship, please visit their official website given above.
