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University of Global Health Equity (UGHE) is a health sciences university in Rwanda. An initiative of Partners In Health, UGHE is a private, not-for-profit, accredited institution. It is located in RWANDA, Northern Province, Butaro.

UGHE is connected to HARVARD Medical School, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and Tufts University in the USA.

SCHOLARSHIP BENEFITS:
UGHE believes that a student’s financial capacity should not determine her or his ability to become a global health leader, and the University was founded on the principle that its graduates should use their knowledge to positively impact the development of Rwanda and beyond.

Under Umusanzu (Kinyarwanda for “contribution”):
• Students will not pay tuition to enroll in the MBBS/MGHD program. The University will pay for tuition, housing at the UGHE dormitories, food, local health insurance, all academic related costs, including projects and field trips.
• All students will receive a laptop for the duration of their studies, loaded with all necessary course software.
• Students are provided with all academic content in the form of books, manuals, online tools, and video and audio recordings throughout the program.
• Students will be employed upon their graduation to serve as a doctor to serve as a doctor for a designated years’ of service among the vulnerable population, under an agreement with the Ministry of Health and UGHE. This is done under Umusanzu years of service, as determined by their employers.

LIST OF AVAILABLE PROGRAMS AT UGHE:
• Bachelor of Medicine
• Bachelor of Surgery
• Master of Science in Global health delivery
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ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA:
• All students from Burundi, DRC, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Sudan and Tanzania. Non-Rwandan nationals with refugee status in Rwanda and from all African countries will be considered.
• All international students who did not complete an examination offered by the Rwandan National Examination and School Inspection Authority (NESA)/REB/WDA should apply for NESA equivalency review through Irembo.gov.rw.
• Only candidates who completed high school in 2023 and 2024 can apply. Also, those who applied last year and didn’t get in can re-apply.
• Students must have done a combination including CHEMISTRY and BIOLOGY in High school with at least an A score in these subjects.
• National exam scores with an overall aggregate score of at least 50 with two principal passes in Biology and Chemistry from the following subject combinations, or equivalent:

Physics-Chemistry-Biology (PCB)
Math-Chemistry-Biology (MCB)
Biology-Chemistry-Geography (BCG)
Chemistry, Biology and Agriculture (CBA)
Chemistry, Biology and Food & Human Nutrition (CBN)
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• UGHE also accepts applicants with a Bachelor’s degree in any of these specialities for this intake: Nursing, Laboratory Science, Pharmacy, Radiography, Anesthesia, or other fields closely related to health care and meet the eligibility criteria outlined above. In addition to meeting the criteria outlined above, candidates falling under this category must also have demonstrated work experience in health sciences or global health capacity in Burundi, DRC, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Liberia, Lesotho, Malawi and Sierra Leone.
Note that, All applicants with an undergraduate degree should apply and submit their Equivalency certificates for their A’level or high school leaving certificates which have at least grade ”C” in any A-level subject combinations that includes Biology and Chemistry principal subjects.
• Completed Applications must be accompanied with notarised copies of academic documents,
• Applicants whose first language is not English or who did not go through an education system with English as a medium of instruction will be required to provide evidence from a recognized English language training institution that they have sufficient command of English language to cope with the program.
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WHAT IS THE ADMISSIONS PROCESS?
Applications are submitted online. Each applicant is asked to submit their National Exams results. In addition to demographic information, applicants are required to submit their PERSONAL STATEMENT (Essay) : After the Admissions Committee reviews all applications, select candidates are invited to sit for an online ENTRANCE EXAMINATION, and a subset of those candidates are invited for ADMISSIONS INTERVIEWS.

HOW TO APPLY FOR SCHOLARSHIP?

You have to complete an online application which has to be submitted once using one email address. Failure to follow this instruction, will lead to your application being disqualified. See the Application link at the bottom.
Note that you must inform your teachers to submit the two recommendation letters on your behalf. Check out our guiding video on youtube on how to invite your teachers via the link at the bottom.

APPLICATION DEADLINE: Applications will close on 17 January 2025 at 5:00 PM (Central Africa Time)

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