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2:2 BSc with a strong MSc can apply:

Seeking a PhD in AI, machine learning, and similar fields? BAUM TenPers Institute is partnering with some African and European universities and a major donor to recruit a large number of students from a few African countries to pursue a PhD in AI, ML, etc, fully funded.

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Follow the instructions in the link and show your initial interest. You will be contacted in the future to complete a formal application and participate in screening.

We welcome applications from all qualified people, including those with a PhD in other quantitative fields. Women from all quantitative fields are encouraged to apply. BSc degree holders with outstanding academic records (even without an MSc) can also apply.

Please spread the information, apply or ask your students to apply.

Note: Apart from engineering and physical science, we consider actuarial science, economics and finance as quantitative too, including other quantitative business and social science courses. If you studied any of these courses, please apply.

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https://medium.com/@yomiresearch/amos-ishaku-the-borno-student-who-fled-boko-haram-insurgency-to-edo-state-idp-camp-wins-16c65668e8c1


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Amos Ishaku, the Borno Student Who Fled Boko Haram Insurgency to Edo State IDP Camp, Wins Scholarship to Pursue a PhD in Chemical Engineering in the United States


A golden fish, as they say, can never hide in water for too long without being discovered. The story of Amos Ishaku’s resilience and triumph is well-known. However, a new chapter about this promising young man has emerged. From being a refugee in Uhorgua Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) Camp to becoming Edo State University’s Valedictorian for the class of 2023, Amos Ishaku has now received offers from universities around the world to pursue graduate studies. Amos received offers from the University of Illinois Chicago, Carnegie Mellon University, Purdue University, Iowa State University, and the University of Edinburgh.

Following his outstanding academic achievement at Edo State University and having overcome great adversities in life, Amos was approached by the BAUM Tenpers Institute and offered a full scholarship to join the institute’s mentorship program. This program includes online courses in mathematics taught by Professor Fadipe-Joseph of the University of Ilorin and Professor Okeke of the Federal University of Technology Owerri, with tutoring support from Dr. Opaleye from Ladoke Akintola University and Dr. Francis from Federal University of Technology Umudike. Despite not being an engineering school, the BAUM Tenpers Institute was moved by Amos’s life story and wanted to make a difference in his life. He was offered a full scholarship worth $10,000, covering online classes in the institute’s mathematics certificate program, as well as the costs of preparing and applying to graduate schools, among others.

Amos has chosen to attend the University of Illinois Chicago to pursue doctoral studies in Chemical Engineering, a field in which he excelled at the undergraduate level at Edo State University. “We would like to congratulate Amos Ishaku and his mentors and well-wishers, especially Pastor Solomon Folorunsho, coordinator of the IDP facility, whose steadfast faith in Amos and other students at the facility, even in times of great uncertainty, has paid off big time,” said Dr. Kevwe, Senior Research Fellow of BAUM Tenpers Institute based in the US.

The BAUM Tenpers Institute will now partner with Uhorgua Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) Camp and the Home For The Needy Foundation in Benin Edo State to identify and support other outstanding students who are heavily disadvantaged. The medium- and long-term goal will be for the IDP camp alumni who receive this generous support to excel in whatever endeavor they choose to pursue in life, impact Nigeria’s advancement, and give back mandatorily to support the IDP camp: To whom much is given, much is expected.

The BAUM Tenpers Institute, an academic not-for-profit with centers in Virginia, United States, and Lagos, Nigeria, has a reputation for rigorously supporting the students it has committed to. It has supported over 30 documented students to gain acceptance with generous funding into some of the world’s most prestigious universities. It does this by providing full scholarships to attend the online certificate courses it organizes for bright students with shaky prior education and a second round of full scholarships to support applicants applying to graduate school, targeted specifically at students who show the most promise.

The Lagos center of the institute is led by Mr. Anifowose, a veteran in scholarship matters, who personally mentored Amos through the short window of the application process and has been mentoring him since then, while the global Director of Admissions and Senior Program Registrar is Dr. Adaeze, based in the US. According to Dr. Adaeze, “we are impressed by the willingness shown by Amos’s professors at Edo State University in the ways they supported his applications with letters of recommendation, and they did so within the short application window that we had to work with given that we only discovered Amos toward November while many universities had application deadlines of December 5, but I am pleased it all worked out well, with several good offers.”

Successful students in the current cohort of the program will begin applying to graduate school in August this year. “Our institute will continue to support the students we commit to; there is no hidden agenda. Our mission is to elevate people through the liberating power of education, and we will pursue this mission with passion using all the advantages life has given us. We expect, without question, that anyone who has benefitted from our generosity must demonstrate the same passion in advancing humanity through education by supporting our mission,” said Mr. Anifowose.

https://medium.com/@yomiresearch/amos-ishaku-the-borno-student-who-fled-boko-haram-insurgency-to-edo-state-idp-camp-wins-16c65668e8c1