Makerere University
Department of
Computer Science
Update Jan 3, 2025
Google DeepMind and Makerere University will renew the collaboration to fund two (2) new scholarships in the field of Machine Learning in the academic year 2025/2026. The new scholarships build on the previous scholarships that were awarded in the academic years 2021/22, 2022/23, and 2024/2025.
The scholarships will support students who wish to study the MSc. Computer Science programme (Track: AI and Data Science) taught in the Department of Computer Science at Makerere University in the academic year 2025/2026. The scholarships are open to students from Uganda. The scholarship package will include full financial support for tuition, stipend, equipment, AI conference participation, and mentorship. Read more about the scholarship.
Which programmes are eligible?
MSc in Computer Science (Track: AI and Data Science). Students must first secure admission to the M.Sc. Computer Science programme at Makerere University before applying for the scholarship.
What does the scholarship cover?
How many scholarships are available?
Two (2) Google DeepMind scholarships are available for the 2025/26 academic year.
Eligibility
The scholarships are open to students who are citizens of Uganda.
Applying for the scholarship
You first apply for admission to MSc Computer Science before applying for the scholarship. At the time of scholarship application, you are required to provide proof of application for admission (not proof of admission). However, to be awarded the Google DeepMind scholarship, you must provide proof of admission to the MSc Computer Science programme of Makerere University.
Google DeepMind Scholarship application form : Deadline June 30, 2025 .
About Google DeepMind
Google DeepMind is a world-leading AI research lab with British heritage and an international team, committed to building AI responsibly, delivering scientific breakthroughs, and creating products that improve billions of lives. The unit’s breakthroughs over the last decade include AlphaGo - the first computer program to defeat a Go world champion, Transformers - neural networks that underpin all modern language models, AlphaFold - an AI system that predicts 3D models of protein structures enabling further scientific advancement, and Gemini , a family of versatile AI models built from the ground up for multimodality, seamlessly combining and understanding text, code, images, audio and video.