According to Fox Boston, 125 college students from Nigeria who received full
scholarships from the Nigerian government will be attending college in Boston
in the fall. The students are set to attend Northeastern University, and roughly half of them arrived in Boston
on Monday May 26th.
The U.S. Pathway
Program, which consists of a consortium of American universities offering
an academic
preparation program that becomes a pathway to a college degree, and
the Nigerian government are working to fund the students' scholarships, which
include money for tuition, books, room and board.
Fifty-three of the 125 students selected to participate in
the program arrived in Boston on Monday accompanied by a Nigerian presidential
adviser. They wore green and white colored scarves that represented the
Nigerian flag. The students came from some of the most deprived regions of
Nigeria, according to a press release about the program.
The soon-to-be Northeastern attendees are required to
complete a summer bridge term at Northeastern before they join the University’s
sophomore class in the fall.
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