IESCO Scholarship in Malaysia (ISM)
ISM Program

IESCO Scholarship
in Malaysia (ISM)

Empowering excellent students from conflict-affected zones to pursue higher academic milestones across top-tier universities in Malaysia.

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Program Overview

About the ISM Scholarship

The IESCO Scholarship in Malaysia (ISM) purposefully targets bright, underprivileged youths hailing from regions disrupted by conflict. We build pathways for sustainable career development, focusing our active recruitment modules primarily towards students from Palestine, Yemen, and vulnerable Rohingya communities.

Criteria

Entry Requirements
& Required Documents

Eligibility Criteria

  • Exemplary moral standing and proven good conduct.
  • Possession of an active, full-time admission offer letter from a recognized Malaysian institution.
  • Maintained a baseline CGPA of 2.80 or higher (or regional equivalent).
  • Open to active students within Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD programs.
  • Must not currently hold any external concurrent scholarship grants.
  • Verified financial hardship preventing standard tuition settlement.
  • Demonstrated prior engagement in community volunteer frameworks is heavily favored.

Required Documents

  • Complete scan of a valid international passport.
  • Recent passport-format photograph against a crisp white background.
  • Official Student Pass copy or structured Visa Approval Letter (VAL).
  • Certified prior graduation degree certifications and English transcripts.
  • Most recent academic semester grade slip (for enrolled ongoing applicants).
  • High School graduation credentials (exclusive to upcoming Bachelor applications).
  • Official university confirmation/unconditional placement offer.
  • Recent institutional or personal verified financial status declarations.

Application Pipeline

How to Apply

An organized, clear, phased approach towards securing your educational funding.

1

Secure Offer

Apply to your target Malaysian university to obtain your unconditional offer letter and early Visa Approval Letter (VAL).

2

Portal Filing

Register your user account directly inside the official digital ISM Scholarship portal and fill out your application data.

3

Panel Review

Your academic background, socioeconomic profile, and submitted documents pass through structural auditing arrays.

4

Finalization

Approved scholars receive dynamic correspondence detailing onboarding packages and direct institutional support paths.

Core Purpose

Strategic Pillars

Program Objectives

  • Provide financial security to high-achieving, impoverished individuals.
  • Shield nearing-graduation students from abandonment due to funding crises.
  • Encircle civil networks around inclusive global instruction paths.
  • Relieve heavy educational micro-debts suffocating families within zone borders.

Crucial Structural Notices

Formal application windows are securely fixed between April 20, 2024, and May 5, 2025. Delayed server intakes will NOT be registered. Submissions showing incomplete files or lacking verifiable proof automatically forfeit matching review sequences. Please note that individual allocations remain active for one scholastic cycle only.

Fuel Tomorrow’s
Innovators

Your generous support directly seeds institutional funds, ensuring a continuous pipeline of sustainable academic allocations for marginalized regions globally.

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Universities Partners - ISM Scholarship

Our Partner Universities

International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM)

Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris (UPSI)

Universiti Teknologi MARA

Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM)

Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM)

Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia (USIM)

University Sultan Zainal Abidin (UniSZA)

Universiti Sains Malaysia

Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM)

Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia

Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM)

Universiti Malaysia Kelantan (UMK)

Universiti Malaya (UM)

Universiti Malaysia Pahang (UMP)

Universiti Malaysia Perlis

Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)

Universiti Putra Malaysia

Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM)

Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka

Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka (UTeM)

Universiti Utara Malaysia

Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM)

Universiti Tenaga Nasional

Universiti Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN)

University Teknologi Petronas

University Teknologi Petronas (UTP)

Multimedia University

Multimedia University (MMU)

Albukhary International University

Albukhary International University (AIU)