Dominican Government International Scholarships 2023

[NALs]

From January 31 to February 21, 2023 is the inscription for Dominican government international scholarships to study in accredited universities outside the DR such as any in the USA, Canada, Spain; Mexico, Argentina, etc and this include any of those countries top universities such as the Ivy Leagues of the United States.

The application is entirely free.

A QR code is included below to access via a smartphone or direct from a computer at becas.gob.do.

Those not approved for a Dominican government international scholarships can re-apply the following year.


Basic Requirements
- Dominican Nationality
- Grades of at least 80 in a scale of 100 or 3 in a scale of 4 (the same grades requirements for masters and/or PhD degrees). Not specified, but can be from public or private schools.


Additional Requirements for Masters Degrees
- Copy of the cédula (front and back)
- Official grades legalized by MESCyT.
- Copy of the diploma legalized by MESCyT.
- Resume (2 pages at most)


Additional Requirements for Doctorates/PhD Degrees
- Copy of the cédula (front and back)
- Copy of the diploma legalized by MESCyT.
- Official grades legalized by MESCyT.
- Copy of the Masters degree legalized by MESCyT.
- Official grades of the Masters degree legalized by MESCyT.
- Resume (2 pages at most)


Additional Important Information
- Candidates are not excempt from the admission processes of the universities they apply to.
- All admission prerequisite of the university the apply to must be met by the candidate. The Dominican government will not do anything on your behalf regarding this. This also includes being fluent in the language taught in the university outside Spain and Spanish speaking countries.
- To start the study depends on the universities applied to.
- Changes of university or major will not be allowed once the scholarship is granted by the Dominican government.


Procedure to Adquiring a Dominican Government International Scholarship
- The document in becas.gob.do must be entirely completed by the candidate.
- The first step to filling the document is the obligation of entering the cédula number. Without this the document can't be filled.
- As soon the personal information of the candidate are in, he/she will receive an email with a user name and password with which they can enter the system and give following to their approval process for a Dominican government international scholarships.

 

[Lucifer]

These instructions are missing the most important part: connection to a member of the upper echelon of govt.

Most applicants will get their hopes up, and waste their time in the process, since the scholarships will be distributed among the big shots' family members.

Then they'll return with a master's from an Ivy League school, and the press will eat it up: "So and so is brilliant: he went to Harvard."

 

[aarhus]

These instructions are missing the most important part: connection to a member of the upper echelon of govt.

Most applicants will get their hopes up, and waste their time in the process, since the scholarships will be distributed among the big shots' family members.

Then they'll return with a master's from an Ivy League school, and the press will eat it up: "So and so is brilliant: he went to Harvard."

Is that really how it works?

 

[CristoRey]

Is that really how it works?

Unfortunately.
Same applies to some of these business loan programs as well.

 

[Kipling333]

A major problem is acceptance of the student by the foreign University because degrees from Dominican Universities are not highly regarded abroad.So,if a person has finished his bachelor degree in the DR in say Medicine or Law, it counts for little outside the DR. It seems that it is far easier if the applicant is a top rate tennis or golf player, swimmer or athlete so he can enter an American University with a sports scholarship. In addition, there are entry exams for some of the top Universities in Colombia and Argentina which are conducted in Santo Domingo at the consular offices but these have a large amount of questions that do not specifically relate to the desired course. Even if a student does succeed in obtaining a position in a Masters or Doctorate course, why would the student wish to return to the DR where he or she could only earn a small percentage of that to be earned in a developed country. Still, free application and worth giving it a go !!

 

[NALs]

This was the last event from about August 2022 where over 10,000 scholarships were granted by the Dominican government with many of the beneficiaries in the audience.

Some of the beneficiaries, all required to dress in white and black. Quite noticeable is that women are much more than men.

Notice the wheelchair. Being handicap doesn't disqualify from getting a Dominican government scholarship.

 

[NALs]

This one is also from August 2022 concerning the Dominican government granting scholarships to study abroad only.

 

[aarhus]

I am going to give Nals the benefit of doubt here. That maybe there are some who legitimately get to study Internationally who didn’t have connections. And came from poverty.

 

[NALs]

This one is not from the Dominican government, but rather from Banco Popular. They are offering 50 scholarships that can be used in 8 Dominican techical schools and universities.

- 13 scholarships for ITLA.
- 3 for PUCMM.
- 4 for Chavón School of Design (one of the top schools of design in Latin America).
- 4 for Loyola (higher education).
- 10 for Loyola (technical school).
- 4 for UNIBE.
- 5 for UCNE.
- 7 for UCE.

The scholarships can be used for over 50 majors including accounting, photography, economics, financial management, marketing, industrial engineering, fine arts, business administration, etc.

 

[NanSanPedro]

That's a nice list but I'm disappointed that I couldn't find "Teoría de la danza lésbica".

 

[NALs]

Pesos Pesados is not from the Dominican government, but they are offering 5 scholarships that will cover all educational costs (including the non-refundable admission fee of RD$1,500.) It doesn't matter if a person already has a university degree, etc. The person must have a Dominican high school degree with a GPA of 80 (B) or above. Must have a legitimate Dominican cédula. Scholarships apply to completi g the course at the Santo Domingo or Santiago campuses starting in September 2023.

- 2 scholarships of Small and Medium Business Administration.
- 1 scholarship of Integral Logistics.
- 1 scholarship of Multiplatforms Applications Development.
- 1 scholarship of Publicity and Digital Mediums.

These scholarships re approved by MESCYT and backed by TEP-PUCMM.

Applying is open until June 25, 2023.

All the requisites and applying for any of them is through the website www.PesosPesados.do.

 

[NALs]

Here is an interesting story of Yadira Marte. This interview took place on August 18, 2023 for the podcast Politiqueando RD.

In the beginning, she explains her origins (from a humble family in Navarrete near Santiago city), but that she was able to go to the United States to study in two universities (Northeast WisconsinTechnical College and the University of Wisconsin at Merinett, both in Wisconsin) due to a scholarship she applied for in the DR. The scholarships covered all costs. Out of a total of 1,040 (400 were from different municipalities in the Cibao) she was one of the 42 choosen. She represented Santiago. She studied Small Business for Women and Retail Management. After she completed her studies, she return to the DR and for over a decade has her own successful business in the Caribbean Industrial Park (aka, a free trade zone park) in Santiago.

She is better known for her videos regarding several social and political issues affecting the DR.

The point here is of another Dominican not from a rich family, not with a priviledged last name that within the DR applied for scholarships past her high school graduation* and with them further her education and now is a successful business woman in the DR.

* She earned her high school degree from the Liceo Pedro María Espaillat, again not one of the schools with such names such as Carol Morgan, New Hotizons, Babeque, etc and still got the scholarship, still got her university education and still became the founder of what would become a successful business in Santiago. There is no excuse for any good Dominican student from any schools in the DR to not apply for all the scholarships they can apply for. You csn be from a humble and apply.

 

[pularvik]

I have a nurse that comes to my house daily to provide services. Problem is, she doesn’t speak a word of English. So, when she wants to tell me something she calls her sister who speaks perfect English to translate. One day I asked her where her sister lived and she said “in Russia”! Her sister went to med school in the DR . Then she applied for one of these scholarships to complete her doctorate. She is in Russia for 4 years, all expenses paid. I was astonished! She was in the DR for 6 weeks this summer, lovely young woman!

 

[Lucifer]

Here is an interesting story of Yadira Marte. This interview took place on August 18, 2023 for the podcast Politiqueando RD.

In the beginning, she explains her origins (from a humble family in Navarrete near Santiago city), but that she was able to go to the United States to study in two universities (Northeast WisconsinTechnical College and the University of Wisconsin at Merinett, both in Wisconsin) due to a scholarship she applied for in the DR. The scholarships covered all costs. Out of a total of 1,040 (400 were from different municipalities in the Cibao) she was one of the 42 choosen. She represented Santiago. She studied Small Business for Women and Retail Management. After she completed her studies, she return to the DR and for over a decade has her own successful business in the Caribbean Industrial Park (aka, a free trade zone park) in Santiago.

She is better known for her videos regarding several social and political issues affecting the DR.

The point here is of another Dominican not from a rich family, not with a priviledged last name that within the DR applied for scholarships past her high school graduation* and with them further her education and now is a successful business woman in the DR.

* She earned her high school degree from the Liceo Pedro María Espaillat, again not one of the schools with such names such as Carol Morgan, New Hotizons, Babeque, etc and still got the scholarship, still got her university education and still became the founder of what would become a successful business in Santiago. There is no excuse for any good Dominican student from any schools in the DR to not apply for all the scholarships they can apply for. You csn be from a humble and apply.

Like most applicants, Yadira Marte probably wrote about her dreams of being selected, so that she could advance her dreams of helping the downtrodden and the have-nots.

Today, she is a Haitian-hating politician, who also hates Dominicans who defend the plight of our less-fortunate neighbors.

 

[El Hijo de Manolo]

Like most applicants, Yadira Marte probably wrote about her dreams of being selected, so that she could advance her dreams of helping the downtrodden and the have-nots.

Today, she is a Haitian-hating politician, who also hates Dominicans who defend the plight of our less-fortunate neighbors.

No Dominican I ever met cares for the Haitians. Certain groups of the population tolerate them for their acceptance of low wages, such as construction and sugar cane sectors. That's not even including the history of bad blood between the two neighbors.

 

[NanSanPedro]

I've met tons of Dominicanos/as in churches that accept Haitianos/as as brothers and sisters in Christ.

 

[El Hijo de Manolo]

I've met tons of Dominicanos/as in churches that accept Haitianos/as as brothers and sisters in Christ.

Hey, I didn't say me personally. The Bible teaches us love and tolerance. In fact I had a Haitian neighbor a few years back very good looking young lady, whose gringo bf had bought her an SUV and paid for the apartment. Every so often I would visit with her and her girlfriend to work on foreign relations. They were nice folk!

 

[NALs]

Like most applicants, Yadira Marte probably wrote about her dreams of being selected, so that she could advance her dreams of helping the downtrodden and the have-nots.

Today, she is a Haitian-hating politician, who also hates Dominicans who defend the plight of our less-fortunate neighbors.

She does have an anti-illegal immigration from Haiti stance, but I have never heard her as a "Haitian-hating politician." She does criticize Dominicans that look away from the illegal Haitian immigration problem, but that comes with the course.

I see her as a younger version of Consuelo Despradel, except that Consuelo recognizes she was a Marxist and criticizes many Dominicans that criticize her due to her anti-illegal Haitian immigration stance. She has said on seversl occasions how among the criticisms towards her are "racist" or what I think is the most of all "every morning she eats a Haitian for breakfast" (lol) among other things. Her criticisms towards those that criticize her, especially the ones that respond with the two criticism already mentioned, has lead her on many occasions to let people know that her first husband and with whom she had all her daughters was black, that during her Marxist years she was the one that would take the letters and messages from the Dominican Marxist Party to their equivalent in Haiti and vice versa, that she knew and was friends with the entire Haitian Marxists working on toppling the Duvalier's regime abd replacing it with a Marxist one (she also said every single Marxist Haitian she knew were captured, tortured and killed by Duvalier.)

There are many other things she has said such as when one of her daughters was still a baby, her then husband disappeared for several consecutive months. She thought he had abandoned them leaving her as the only responsible parent for upbringing her daughter. Later he reappears and she learns he was sent on a secret mission to North Korea where he along with several other Dominicans were receiving training to topple Balaguer's government and put in place a Dominican Marxist government. He told no one of the secret mission before leaving, not even his wife and that level of secrecy was common practice among the Marxists.

 

[NALs]

Btw, today she is no longer a Marxist because seeing what Cuba has become and the fiasco in Venezuela, she realizes the DR is better compared to both of them. She also had a change of opinion of Balaguer, who one of their goals was to kill him, when she saw him putting in place certsin government programs that essentially were some of the things the Marxists wanted, such as breaking up extremely large landholdings by few rich families and giving their unused land to poor would be farmers without land. Plus, the land some poor subsistence farmers were farming on was owned by these rich families despite they didn't produced anything on them and everything produced there was by these poor farmers purely for subsistence. Balaguer badically took part of that unused land owned by the rich and gave them to the poor subsistence farmers already farming in that land.

One time she said in an interview: "Look what Cuba has become. Look at Venezuela. The DR to be like them? No, no, no. That's not the country that they told me this would become (during the years she was a Marxist.)"

 

[Lucifer]

Consuelo Despradel has made an about-face and embraced the mighty dollar, much like many of those Berkeley idealists of the 1960s: Today she's a firm supporter of the PLD and its cabal, while laughing all the way to the bank thanks to the publicity dollar she receives form different govt. institutions, regardless of which party controls the coffers.

While Despradel was in the trenches during the last years of Trujillo's regime, and later combating Balaguer's relentless persecution of her leftist comrades, Yadira, on the other hand, is hell-bent on surpassing Luther's 95 Theses: She's in constant complaint mode, forever hating all things Haitian and/or Dominicans who lend them a hand.