New Uzbekistan Scholarship

What makes this program distinctive is its funding mechanism: rather than creating a brand-new budget line, the scholarship redirects state grant quota seats that go unused each year in bachelor's programs at public universities. Uzbekistan allocates a large number of tuition-free 'grant' seats to its own top-scoring students every admission cycle, and in practice a portion of these seats are never filled. The New Uzbekistan Scholarship formalizes the reallocation of up to 500 of these unused seats annually to talented foreign applicants instead of letting them lapse.

From the 2026/2027 academic year onward, foreign applicants are expected to apply through a new centralized digital system built on the 'Study in Uzbekistan' platform, replacing the previous university-by-university application process for state-quota seats. This is intended to make the process more transparent and easier for international applicants to navigate, since previously foreign admission to Uzbek state universities was fragmented across dozens of individual institutional procedures.

For Pakistani students, this scholarship is worth watching closely because Uzbekistan has rapidly expanded its English-medium offerings in medicine, engineering, IT, and business over the past several years, and tuition and living costs in Tashkent, Samarkand, and Bukhara remain a fraction of Western Europe or North America. Because the program is brand new, the exact list of participating universities, the subject-wise seat breakdown, and the finalized application calendar for the platform were still being rolled out at the time of writing — prospective applicants should treat this as an emerging opportunity and confirm live details before applying.