The Future Scholars Scholarship is administered by Egypt’s Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, with funding support established through the Central Bank of Egypt. It enables academically strong students with demonstrated social need to pursue bachelor or licentiate study at participating Egyptian national universities.
Supported fields include medicine, nursing, veterinary medicine, engineering, computing and artificial intelligence, applied arts and design, agriculture, tourism, hospitality, and archaeology. The first cycle ran in September 2025, and second-cycle applications for the 2026/2027 academic year closed on 4 September 2026.
Benefits & funding
- Full tuition coverage through graduation, subject to continued compliance with the scholarship requirements.
- Accommodation and living expenses through graduation.
- Study at a participating Egyptian national university in one of the fields listed by the program.
Eligibility
- Applicants must be Egyptian nationals.
- Applicants must have completed Egyptian general secondary education or STEM education at a government school and meet the announced academic threshold for the relevant faculty.
- Applicants must either benefit from the Takaful and Karama social-support initiative or have received a Ministry of Education fee exemption.
- Applicants must have good conduct and must not have been dismissed for academic or disciplinary reasons.
- Applicants may not hold another scholarship funded by another organization at the same time.
- The student and a parent or guardian must provide the required documents and sign the application declaration.
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Eligible nationalities
Egypt
Education required
High School
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Application process
- 1When the portal opens, sign in with the student’s national identification number and the password printed on the secondary-school certificate.
- 2Complete the application on a computer and select from the study preferences displayed according to the student’s governorate and academic score.
- 3Upload the student’s and guardian’s identification documents and the signed declarations; documents must be PDF, images must be JPG, and each file must not exceed 1 MB.
- 4If selected, sign the scholarship agreement and open an account with a bank licensed by the Central Bank of Egypt to receive accommodation and living payments.
Program timeline
Applications opened for the first cycle.
Sep 9, 2025
Applications closed for the first cycle.
Sep 14, 2025
Candidate names were announced for the first cycle.
Sep 18, 2025
Second-cycle applications closed at 7:00 p.m.
Sep 4, 2026
Date not published
Program start and end dates.