Where would you like to go to college?

Brazil has recently announced that it will be awarding 75,000 scholarships for young Brazilians to attend the best universities of the world!

“During the 2009–10 academic year, Brazil a nation of almost 200 million people, had fewer than 9,000 students at U.S. universities; China, by contrast, had more than 127,000, India 100,000 and South Korea 72,000. That’s a big reason that more than a third of the world’s research and development takes place in Asia today while less than 3% of it goes on in Latin America. As a result, countries across the region are working to get more of their best and brightest into top-flight institutions like Harvard, Stanford, Oxford and the Sorbonne. Ecuador last month announced its largest scholarship program yet, hoping to send more than 1,000 students overseas, while Colombia in 2011 will place more people abroad than in the past 18 years combined. Chile is expanding its own program to offer 30,000 scholarships by 2018, and even tiny El Salvador now has a study-abroad project.”

So where are you planing to apply?

For a copy of the article and to find out more about these programs, you can read more here http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2094119,00.html?xid=newsletter-daily

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