Scholarship programs

of the Higher Education

Commission (HEC)

Pakistan

Scholarship programs
of the Higher Education Commission
(HEC) of Pakistan
Since 2009, Campus France has been in charge of scholarship programs,
funded by the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan, Ministry of Higher
Education in Pakistan.
The main program, called Ms leading to PhD , was created for the training
of future experts in hard sciences and social sciences and allows students
in M2 and PhD to study abroad for 3 or 4 years.
English-speaking countries were until now the most common choice
for HEC scholars but since 2015, a growing number of Pakistani students
choose France.
More than 90 students are currently studying in French Higher Education
institutions through different scholarship programs:
Program Ms leading to PhD;
Engineering Program;
Balochistan Program for the students coming
from this economically deprived area.

Priority fields of study: economics, political sciences,

management, pharmacology, engineering sciences, biology

Step 1

Selection
process

HEC calls for applications: applicants for a

Masters 2 must have completed 16 years of
education, 4 of which must have been at an
institution of higher learning (Baccalaurat +
4 in the French system);
applicants for a PhD must have completed
18 years of education, 6 of which must
have been at an institution of higher
learning (Baccalaurat + 6 in the French
system).

Step 2
Written tests are
organized by HEC.

Services provided

HEC programs in numbers

Campus France handles the management of HEC programs to offer students

the following services:
Payment of a monthly stipend of 1,000 ;
Assistance in obtaining an acceptance letter in a M2 or PhD;

More than

40

higher education
institutions are partners
(universities, laboratories
or schools).

Transfer and train tickets to their city;

Accommodation in a student residence;
Refund of registration and tuition fees;
Enrollment of students over the age of 28 in the Campus France private
insurance plan/refund of the yearly cost of enrollment in a student
insurance plan for students under the age of 28;
Monitoring of academic performance through a yearly progress report.

93

students are currently enrolled

in HEC programs.

In 2014,

5,000

students answered the call for applications.

Step 3
Selected applicants
are interviewed during
sessions organized
jointly by HEC, the
French Embassy
in Pakistan, and
representatives of
French universities.

Step 4
HEC draws up the
final list of selected
applicants for the
placement of students
in French Higher
Education institutions.

Step 5
French language courses
are set up for students in
the Alliances Franaises
of Islamabad, Karachi
and Lahore prior to their
departure. Language
training in France is
provided to a small
number of candidates
under social sciences.

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en Sciences Sociales
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Curie

Universit Charles de Gaulle

Lille 3

Universit Paris Descartes

Universit Paris Diderot
Paris 7

Universit Paris-Est Crteil

Universit Panthon
Sorbonne
Universit Sorbonne
nouvelle

LILLE

Universit de Lorraine

Institut Gustave-Roussy

Centrale Supelec

GR-IAE Universit Rennes

cole des Hautes tudes
en Sant Publique

Universit de Strasbourg

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CHATENAY MALABRY
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LE MANS

PARIS

NANCY

STRASBOURG

CRTEIL

Universit du Maine
Universit de Bourgogne

DIJON

Universit de La Rochelle

LA ROCHELLE

LYON
CLERMONTFERRAND

Universit Bordeaux
Montaigne

Universit Claude Bernard

Lyon 1
Universit dAuvergne

GRENOBLE

BORDEAUX

IAE Grenoble
Universit Joseph Fourier

MONTPELLIER
Universit de Pau
et des Pays de lAdour

PAU

AIX-EN-PROVENCE

TOULOUSE
Aix-Marseille Universit

cole nationale vtrinaire

de Toulouse
Sciences Po Toulouse
Universit Toulouse I
Capitole

Contact us:
Mathilde MALLET, mathilde.mallet@campusfrance.org
Hlne Jarry, hec.pakistan@campusfrance.org

Universit de Montpellier

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