Flanders offers scholarships to top foreign universities

The Flemish Government in Belgium has announced that it will put aside €2 million (US$2.3 million) every year for scholarships for students in the region who have been accepted into renowned universities abroad, reports The Brussels Times.

For most people, simply gaining a place at high-ranking universities like Yale, Oxford or Harvard would be unlikely. But when the high fees and living costs are factored in – often totalling hundreds of thousands of euros – this opportunity becomes nigh-on impossible. This is why, as of the 2022-23 academic year, the region is launching a two-year scholarship programme that will help support the ‘very best students’ – between 20 or 30 per year, depending on the costs that the scholarship will cover.

“This a good policy because studying at such top universities strengthens students considerably and it will mark them out on the labour market,” Herman Van Goethem, dean at the University of Antwerp, told Radio 1.
Full report on The Brussels Times site