African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) 2020-2021 Masters Fellowships for Anglophone African Students

AERC wishes to announce the 2020-2021 Masters scholarships for applicants from Anglophone sub Saharan African countries admitted in to any of the following AERC Collaborative Masters Programme (CMAP) in Economics universities

• Table of Content
• About African Economic Research Consortium (AERC)
• AERC Masters Fellowships
• Requirements for AERC Masters Fellowships Qualification
• Application Deadline
• How to Apply

About African Economic Research Consortium (AERC)

The launch of AERC goes back to the late 1980s, when a small group of Africanists and African scholars began to recognize the disconnect between economic policy making and economic research in sub-Saharan Africa. Available research results, applied to other economies, did not always seem appropriate to the African context. And where such results were available, they were too often not put to use. Their concern swelled into a full-fledged idea; they had a discussion about a vehicle for pooling their expertise and applying it to the development of economic policy capacity in sub-Saharan Afric... continue reading

AERC Masters Fellowships

Requirements for AERC Masters Fellowships Qualification

To qualify for scholarship, applicant must:

(a) Have applied and been admitted to any one of the listed CMAP universities;
(b) Have attained at least a Second Class Honours (Upper Division) or equivalent in Economics or related field from an accredited university;
(c) Female and applicants from post-conflict and fragile states are highly encouraged to apply

AERC wishes to announce the 2020-2021 Masters scholarships for applicants from Anglophone sub-Saharan African countries admitted into any of the following AERC Collaborative Masters Programme (CMAP) in Economics universities:

• Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia
• University of Botswana 
• University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
• University of Cape Coast, Ghana 
• University of Ghana, Legon
• University of Nairobi, Kenya
• University of Mauritius
• University of Namibia 
• University of Malawi
• University of Zimbabwe
• Makerere University

Application Deadline

How to Apply

Interested applicants must submit their applications for admission directly to the respective universities (application procedure can be obtained from the respective university’s website). Upon receipt of an admission letter from a specific university, applicants shall send the following documents to AERC on [email protected] and copy [email protected].

For more details, visit AERC website.