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programIIT Kharagpur's thrust on funded programmes for international students

India Today (July 29, 2019)

IIT Kharagpur is offering a range of scholarships to boost the presence of foreign students in its campus. The Institute has set up various scholarship programmes funded by its alumni in addition to scholarships offered by Indian Council for Cultural Relations and MHRD's Study in India programme. With this new emphasis on financial aid, the Institute received close to 220 applications from foreign students this year for various degree programmes.

List of foreign countries applying

The Institute received applications from SAARC countries including Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, two ASEAN countries, Vietnam, Laos, and two from Latin America--Columbia, Venezuela, a large number of African countries namely Madagascar, Kenya, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Angola, Sudan, the Central Asian country of Uzbekistan, the Pacific island of Fiji, Middle Eastern nations including Iran, Syria, Palestine and Saudi Arabia, and also from Russia and South Korea. (Read More)