Over 3.000 Paraguayans studied abroad through Becal - .::Agencia IP::.

The National Postgraduate Scholarship Program Abroad "Don Carlos Antonio López" (Becal, its acronym in Spanish) has already selected 3.051 Paraguayans nationwide to accomplish their dreams of studying at the best academic centers of the world through 109 calls made since 2015.

Asunción, Agencia IP.- The National Postgraduate Scholarship Program Abroad «Don Carlos Antonio López» (Becal, its acronym in Spanish) has already selected 3.051 Paraguayans nationwide to accomplish their dreams of studying at the best academic centers of the world through 109 calls made since 2015.

63% of the benefited are women, according to the data at the end of September of this year. Currently, 1.554 returnee scholars have received training in different fields. Likewise, there are 765 scholars worldwide who are pursuing their master’s, doctorate, and Ph.D.s, and undergraduate students are studying a semester abroad.

Through the eight years of the Program, 1.545 scholarships were given at a graduate level abroad, 480 scholarships for English, French, German, or Portuguese languages at Paraguay, destined to undergraduate students who wish to pursue a masters abroad; 412 for teacher training abroad, 340 doctorates, 242 for undergraduate international mobility, and 32 for the post-doctorate at the bests foreign academic centers, reported the Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF).

The science fields that the scholarship recipients studied or are still studying, in the first place, is Education, with 976 scholarships awarded, followed by Social Sciences, which includes Psychology and Cognitive Science, Economics and Business, Sociology, Law, Political Science; Social and Economic Geography; Media and Communications, among others, with 632 scholars; Humanities with 573; Engineering and Technology with 376; Medical Sciences with 189; Exact and Natural Sciences with 183; Agricultural Sciences with 122, respectively.