APPLICATION FOR EDUCATIONAL PATHWAYS INTERNATIONAL (EPI) SCHOLARSHIPS FOR 2023/2024 ACADEMIC YEAR

Educational Pathways International is a foundation that offers scholarships for 

brilliant but needy students to enable them pursue University education in their own 

country.

ELIGIBILITY: The scholarship is opened to brilliant but needy undergraduate students 

of UDS reading full time programmes. 

APPLICATION FORM and other detailed information can be obtained from the UDS 

website at www.uds.edu.gh

CLOSING DATE FOR SUBMISSION: Monday January 31, 2024.

PLEASE NOTE: No applications would be accepted after the deadline.

How to Apply 

EPI offers University scholarships to Ghanaian student of serious financial need who, 

on the basis of academic achievement, intelligence, personal recommendations, and 

other supporting materials, can be considered “gifted”

EPI accepts applications from students accepted and registered at the University for 

Development Studies, Tamale. 

Scholarships are highly competitive and require the submission of a formal 

application which includes written essays describing why the applicant feels he/she 

should be considered for the program and how upon graduation he/she will make a

difference within his or her home country. Finalists are interviewed after two 

priliminary selection processes by a panel consisting of EPI staff and personnel from 

UDS. 

The scholarship will cover tuition, books, as well as room and board, and a little extra 

will be awarded until completion as long as excellent academic standards of at least a 

‘B’ CGPA (3.5 GPA) continue to be met.

You are eligible to apply if you:

1. Are a level 100 student.

2. Reside in an impoverished part of the country.

3. Attended a less endowed school (GES approved)

4. Are able to demonstrate limited family income and/or insufficient funds to cover most 

or all educational related expenses.

5. Have the will to succeed (determination, perseverance and success in other pursuits)

6. Obtained an aggregate of 11 or better at the WASSCE

7. Confirm that you are not currently receiving support through any other scholarship 

program and pledge not to accept any other scholarship while in the EPI pro

Deadline for the submission of the applications is Monday January 31, 2024.

For enquiries call the Directorate of International Relations and Advancement (DIRA) 

on 0372095761 or send e-mail to: international@uds.edu.gh