The International Amigo Scholarship is awarded each year to the international students of The University of New Mexico in the USA. It is a type of fee-waiver of the non-resident portion of students towards their tuition.

• Awarded to international students
• Renewable scholarship each semester
• Covers the non-resident portion of the tuition fee
• Application deadline for the fall semester is February 28th and for the spring admission semester, it is September 30th.
• Eligible only for full-time graduate degree program students at the University of New Mexico.

• Applicants of the International Amigo Scholarship are required to complete their graduate admission at the University of New Mexico and satisfy the renewability requirements of the scholarship in order to receive the continuing benefit of the scholarship, during their course of study.

International Amigo Scholarship requires applicants to fulfill the following eligibility requirements:

• Applicants must be seeking admission to a Master's or Ph.D. program at the University of New Mexico.
• Previous university grades should be a minimum of 3.0
• The nomination of the applicant's graduate program
• Full-time in-person graduate degree program students are eligible
• A student should have a non-immigrant student visa status to the USA (Preferably visa holders- F1, J1)
• A student should be doing UNM research, project assistantship or teaching.
• No previous attendance at the current application degree level at UNM.

All the graduate students of the University of New Mexico will be considered for the International Amigo scholarship as soon as they accept a place to a UNM graduate program and the nomination is done by the respective department.

• There is no separate application required for the International Amigo Scholarship.
• Applicants are selected by the academic departments of the university
• It will be awarded in departmentally-representative fashion.
• A department can receive no more than 10 total Amigo offers, once the nomination priority deadline passes.

The International Amigo scholarship will be awarded by nomination priority, before February 28th for fall semester admissions and before September 30th for Spring semester admissions. Since the International Amigo scholarships are limited in number, therefore the Graduate departments are told to submit nominations.