Print This PageEligibility for Monsanto's Beachell-Borlaug International Scholars Program
Successful applications will:
- Focus on a critical constraint affecting rice or wheat production
- Demonstrate student’s proven track record of successful study and the accomplishments of the supporting professor
- Include an element of experiential learning in a world area other than where applicant’s previous experience has occurred
- Contain a letter of commitment to pursue work in a public institution in applicant’s home country/region
- Include study at a participating university with a reputation for quality science and financial management and controls
To be eligible, applicants must:
- Have a Master’s Degree or equivalent in Plant Breeding and Genetics or related area
- Be enrolled or accepted in a Ph.D. rice or wheat breeding program and meet all entrance requirements
- Be advised by a professor at the university where the degree will be awarded
- Be eligible to attend school in a foreign country
- For students enrolled in universities in Australia, Canada, Western Europe and the U.S., the collaborating institution’s professor/scientist must be located in a developing country and not in Australia, Canada, Western Europe or the U.S. For students enrolled in universities from all other countries, the collaborating institution’s professor/scientist must be located in Australia, Canada, Western Europe or the U.S. Collaboration with CGIAR center scientists/professors augment the quality of the application but do not fulfill the developed country requirement of the program.
Applicants previously enrolled for their Ph.D. would be eligible for nomination to the program. Such applicants would have two or more years left on their dissertation research before completing their Ph.D. program.
