Robert Gordon University (RGU), Scotland, says it is offering 1.5 million pounds scholarships to Nigerian students to study in Aberdeen in the North East of Scotland.

The university made the announcement in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) by its Senior Communication Officer, Ms Anna Duthie, on Thursday in Abuja.

Duthie said the scholarship was part of RGU’s commitment to attract top students from across the world to Scotland in order to provide diverse university community and multicultural learning environment.

She added that the scholarships were in different categories ranging from 500 to 15,000 pounds.

According to her, the scholarships have variety of forms such as offering of discount on courses, funding of first year of study and covering of full cost of degrees.

“Talented students from around the globe have the opportunity to benefit from a number of scholarships being offered by RGU across a wide range of subjects at undergraduate and postgraduate level courses,’’ she said.

Duthie quoted Prof. David Ashall, Dean of Students’ Recruitment, RGU as saying, “Promoting international diversity is hugely important to the university community.

“We are proud to offer highly valuable scholarship opportunities to students from around the globe.

“Our scholarship opportunities exist to attract the most talented and hard working professionals from around the world to RGU and help to ease the financial implications of studying overseas.

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