The Lakshmipat Singhania Education Foundation’s (LSEF) and University of Massachusetts-Amherst (UMass) have once again come up with the much-awaited LSEF-UMass Scholarship 2022. This time LSEF-UMass is providing scholarship of Rs 20 lakh each to 15 students for MS (Data Analytics and Computational Social Science), MS (Applied Economics), and Master of Public Policy programmes from UMass Amherst, a public university in the US.
Students in this programme undertake two years of post-graduate studies, with the first year at the host institution in India — JK Lakshmipat University, Jaipur and the second year at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, leading to dual degrees.
The applicants need to be Indian citizens, who have completed (or will complete before July 2022) a minimum of three years of Undergraduate (bachelor) degree in any discipline from an accredited institution or University in India, are eligible to apply.
The applicant should also need to have studied Mathematics as a subject up to a minimum of 12th grade or equivalent and also have secured a minimum of 75 per cent marks in their Undergraduate degree, 12th and 10th grades (or equivalent).