to receive added financial support
Yale and CONACYT (Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologica), Mexico's National Council of Science and Technology, will establish a scholarship program that will provide an unprecedented level of support for Mexican students pursuing doctoral studies at the University.
Mexico City-CONACYT Director General Jaime Parada and President Richard C. Levin signed a Letter of Intent to create the program during the latter's trip to Mexico May 13-14. The initiative is the most generous scholarship program for Mexican doctoral students that CONACYT has ever forged with a U.S. university.
"Yale University has offered a new level of support for Mexican students pursuing graduate education at one of the world's outstanding universities," said Parada. "We welcome this new stage of cooperation and the opportunity to strengthen our ties, because we share a common interest of improving productivity through education."
The Letter of Intent states that the University will provide students from Mexico accepted into any of Yale's doctoral programs with a generous financial aid package that covers the full cost of tuition and provides annual stipends of $15,000 and free comprehensive medical care.
In addition, qualifying students will receive funding for summer research from Yale during their first two years. CONACYT will provide each student the opportunity to secure an additional loan of $5,000 every year. The loans will be forgiven if a student returns to Mexico to work in science and technology.
"Today, more than 30% of Yale's graduate students come from outside the United States," Levin said. "This agreement with CONACYT affirms Yale's commitment to becoming a global university and strengthens our existing ties with Mexico. Yale accepted 12 graduate students from Mexico this spring, and this new agreement will ensure that the numbers of students from Mexico at Yale will grow."
CONACYT's mission is to strengthen scientific development and to guide the technological modernization of Mexico. It is also Mexico's foremost agency supporting graduate education and research.
Yale has a long relationship with Mexico. Students and scholars from Mexico have come to Yale for more than 130 years to pursue a wide range of undergraduate and graduate studies. In the last decade alone, students from Mexico pursued studies in 16 fields ranging from economics and engineering to environmental and biomedical sciences. The new agreement replaces a 1992 CONACYT-Yale University Fellowship that evenly divided the tuition and medical fees for graduate students from Mexico between CONACYT and Yale.
Former Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo received his M.A. in 1976, M.Phil. in 1977 and Ph.D. in 1981 from Yale, and Yale alumni from Mexico include distinguished scientists, cabinet ministers and central bank governors.
In addition to providing generous financial aid to doctoral candidates from abroad, Yale has made international undergraduate students eligible for the same extensive need-based financial aid available to students from the United States.
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