To be eligible for the Scholarships, students must be admitted to a specific postgraduate program at one of Google DeepMind’s partner universities. Each partner university establishes the criteria for admission and nominates eligible newly admitted students for the Google DeepMind Scholarships.

Interested students must apply for admission at one of the universities below.

Africa

• University of Witwatersrand (South Africa)
• Makerere University (Uganda)

Additional African scholarships not administered via IIE:

• Please note in 2025, Stellenbosch University will be offering and administering Google DeepMind -funded Master’s Scholarships directly
• The African Institute for Mathematical Sciences’ (AIMS) ‘AI for Science’ Master’s program offers its own Google DeepMind-funded Scholarships. For details, please visit https://ai.aims.ac.za/

Europe

• Sofia University (St. Kliment Ohridski) (Bulgaria)
• École normale supérieure Paris-Saclay (France)
• Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece)
• University of Warsaw (Poland)
• Technical University of Cluj-Napoca (Romania)

Middle East

• Istanbul Technical University (Turkey)

North America

• McGill University (Canada)
• University of Toronto (Canada)
• University of Alberta (Canada)

South America

• UNICAMP Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Brazil)
• Universidad de Los Andes (Colombia)