Islamabad - COMSATS Institute of Information Technology (CIIT) has disbursed Rs 800 million as scholarships among its students during current financial year.
The financial support was disbursed this year among 6,500 students by CIIT to ensure the right to quality of higher education to the deserving students who are unable to pay fees, sources in the CIIT disclosed.
One out of every five students enrolled received some kind of financial assistance as the CIIT believes no student should be deprived of the right to quality higher education due to their inability to pay the fees, they said.
Since its inception, the CIIT has disbursed and amount in excess of Rs 2 billion in various forms of financial aid, mostly in the form for full or partial scholarships, to its students.
Impressed by the achievement of an A-level student Waqas Ali from Sindh, who recently made headlines by winning a global Microsoft (MS Office) competition and beating 600,000 participants, CIIT offered to fully fund his education at the Institute.
Waqas Ali, who hails from Mirpur Mathelo in Ghotki district, participated in the “PowerPoint 2013” competition at the Microsoft Office Specialist World Championship (MOSWC) and won the bronze medal. In the final round, held in Dallas, Texas (USA), 145 students from 47 countries participated.
The CIIT has offered Ali a fully-funded scholarship from its endowment fund to pursue a four-year bachelor degree in Computer Science, at the Institute, after successfully completing his A-levels, in pursuit of its policy to attract outstanding talent.