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BRIEF INTRODUCTION

Each year the Scholarship Programs of Soros foundation fund 20 partial scholarships for four years of undergraduate liberal arts study at the American University in Bulgaria (AUBG), located in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria. AUBG is a highly selective, private, residential university awarding Baccalaureate degree that was founded in 1991 subsequent to the fall of totalitarian regimes in Eastern Europe. It is an international institution committed to democratic values and founded on the traditions of academic independence and freedom of inquiry and expression.

Students pursue majors in areas such as applied economics, business administration, computer science, English, history, journalism/mass communications, political science, and Southeast European Studies. English is the language of instruction. Currently, students from Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Croatia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Macedonia, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Romania, and Serbia are eligible to apply for Soros fellowships. Soros fellowships partially cover the cost of tuition, room and board, health insurance, books, and annual travel to the university throughout the four-year course of study at AUBG. On behalf of the Open Society Institute- Budapest, the Mongolian Foundation for Open Society has been running the American University in Bulgaria scholarship Program since 1997. Within the last 6 years, through this program 10 students received scholarship. Two students from Mongolia graduate the AUBG.

For more information about the American University in Bulgaria, visit its website http://www.aubg.bg