Full ride scholarships for international students

mom2collegekids
Sun, 23 Sep 2018 14:08:53 +0000

When you say, “full ride,” what do you mean? Do you mean funds for tuition, room, board, books, fees, health insurance, personal expenses, air travel from India??? Are you saying that your family can’t contribute anything?

To be honest, unless your family can contribute at least $20k per year, you’re not likely going to find what you want. You may find some “free tuition” offers, but you’d still have to pay for room, board, books, insurance, personal expenses, and air travel. And you’d have to show the money before you’d be given a visa. You wouldn’t be able to work here to help with expenses. And you wouldn’t likely be allowed to stay here over summers…which adds to the airfare needs. Even if you were, you’d be on the hook for all expenses. But usually the education visa you’d be granted would demand that you leave after classes ended in May/June.

There may be some lesser known, lower level schools WITH engineering that might give you tuition, room, board and maybe books, but you’d still need about $8k to cover personal expenses, health insurance, and air travel.

You can look at UAH. But again, you’d have to pay a good bit. Has excellent engineering. https://www.uah.edu/admissions/undergraduate/financial-aid/scholarships/freshmen
UAH would give you full tuition, but if you applied soon, they’d likely give you more than that as an eng’g student.

You can also look at UAlabama. You’d get nearly free tuition plus 2500 per year (so very close to full tuition) .

There just aren’t a bunch of entities here willing or able to fund college educations for int’l students. Heck, there aren’t that many who’ll fund for American students.