Why there is a rise in number of Indian students, especially women, winning Erasmus scholarships | Education News,The Indian Express
According to data shared by an EU official, the representation of women has been between 43 per cent and 46 per cent of the applications in the last eight years. And, in terms of scholarship winners, 52 per cent of women students get it on average.
There has been a sharp rise in the number of Indians winning the Erasmus Mundus Joint Masters scholarships and India has ranked first among 167 countries for the second consecutive year in 2022, data from the European Union shows. As many as 161 Indian students, including 88 women candidates, have been awarded the prestigious scholarship for degree programmes this year.
European Region Action Scheme for the Mobility of University Students (Erasmus) is a programme funded by the European Union to support education for students across the world. It also encourages partnerships between global universities. Erasmus+ scholarships cover participation costs, travel costs, and the living allowance of the recipients.
Data from Erasmus shows that over the last five years, out of 165 countries, scholarship applications from across the globe increased by 37 per cent and by a whopping 87 per cent from India.
When it comes to winning scholarships, performance by Indians has been more than double of their global peers. While there has been an increase of 69.99 per cent globally, India has seen a rise of 151.56 per cent—on average, the number of successful Indian applicants has gone up by 27 per cent every year.
Noticeably, there has been a considerable increase in the number of Indian women winning the scholarship in 2021 and 2022. In 2021, of the 153 Indian students who were awarded the Erasmus+ scholarship, 74 were women, and 88 Indian women won the scholarship out of 161 applicants this year.
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