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Brief description The Federal Government has instituted the Presidential Special Scholarship Scheme for Innovation and Development (PRESSID).The Scheme, which sponsors graduates that have obtained First Class Honours degrees from any recognized and approved university, was established in January 2012 and has awarded a total of two hundred and five (205) scholarships under two editions (the 2013/2014 and 2014/2015 academic sessions). The PRESSID Implementation Committee now invites qualified candidates to apply for the third edition (2015/2016 academic session). Eligible Field of Study Eligible candidate would have obtained First Class Honours degree from any recognised and approved University in the following disciplines and aim at postgraduate degrees in the specified and allied programmes: Sciences: Nuclear Physics, Operations Research, Industrial Chemistry, Quantitative Genetics, Biometrics, Molecular Biology, etc; Medicine*: Clinical Sciences, Dentistry, Oncology, Human Genetics, Forensic Medicine, Physiotherapy, Hepatology, Nuclear Medicine, Geriatrics, ophthalmology, etc.; Veterinary medicine*: Veterinary Parasitology, Theriogenology, Public Health, etc; Basic Medical Sciences: Biochemistry, Physiology, Dentistry, Anatomy, Medical Biochemistry, Human Nutrition, Nursing Science, Anatomic and Molecular Pathology, Biomedical Engineering, Medical Microbiology, Physiotherapy, Pharmacology, etc; Pharmaceutical Sciences*: Drug formulations, Natural products, Drug design, Phytochemistry, Ethnopharmacology, Pharmaceutical Microbiology, etc; Accounting/Actuarial Science: Financial Accounting, Management Accounting, Forensic Accounting, Petroleum Accounting, Cost & Management Accounting, Environmental Accounting, etc; Economics: Econometrics, Development Economics, Micro Economics, Macro Economics, Applied Economics, Labour Economics, etc; Engineering: Aeronautical Engineering, Mechatronics, Control Systems, Material Science and Production Engineering, Nanotechnology, Process Engineering, Energy Systems Engineering, Refinery Design and Operations, Subsea Engineering, Thermal Power (Gas Turbine Option), Reservoir Analysis, Drilling Optimization, Chemical Process Dynamics & Control, Process Modelling and Simulations, etc; Computing and Information Technology: Intelligent Robotic Systems, Computer Systems and Software Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Cyber-Security, etc. About Scholarship As part of efforts to achieve the goals of Vision 20:2020 and the Transformation Agenda, the Federal Government of Nigeria is currently developing a critical mass of professionals who would serve as catalysts of change and agents of scientific and technological advancement, as well as sustainable economic development. This is being achieved through the sponsorship of outstanding students for postgraduate studies in the top 25 universities in the world. Scholarship Offered Since: Scholarship Type: Graduate Scholarship Selection Criteria and Eligibility Be graduates from the 2011/2012 and 2012/2013 academic sessions, who would have completed their National Youth Service by October 2014 Number of Scholarships: several Value of Scholarship: full scholarship Duration of Scholarship: For the duration of one academic year Eligible Countries: PRESSID Scholarships are open for citizens of Nigeria To be taken at (institution and country): University of Cambridge -United Kingdom Harvard University - United States Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - United States Yale University - United States University of Oxford - United Kingdom Imperial College London - United Kingdom UCL (University College London) - United Kingdom University of Chicago - United States University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) - United States Columbia University - United States Stanford University - United States California Institute of Technology (Caltech) - United States Princeton University - United States University of Michigan - United States Cornell University - United States Johns Hopkins University - United States McGill University - Canada ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) - Switzerland Duke University - United States University of Edinburgh - United Kingdom University of California, Berkeley (UCB) - United States University of Hong Kong (HKU) - Hong Kong University of Toronto - Canada Northwestern University - United States The University of Tokyo - Japan University of California, Los Angeles - United States Carnegie Mellon University - United States University of Washington - United States Application Deadline: Application closes on 18th October 2014. Offered annually? Yes How to Apply Eligible candidates should submit application online. Click here for details Sponsors: The Federal Government of Nigeria

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