Scholarships and Student Funding in Comoros

Comoros digitized its scholarship system in 2024

The National Agency for Digital Development (ANADEN) launched e-Bourse on June 20, 2024, an online portal where Comorian baccalaureat holders and university students, including Comorians already living abroad, submit scholarship applications digitally instead of through paper files. ANADEN built the platform as part of the government's Comores Numerique 2028 digital strategy, aiming to cut processing delays and reduce the informal favoritism that shaped the old paper-based system.

Apply for state scholarship support through e-Bourse rather than a physical office visit. The portal centralizes requests so every applicant goes through the same review process, whatever their region or family connections.

Universite des Comores keeps entry costs low

Studying at the country's public university costs far less than studying abroad. Pre-registration at Universite des Comores costs 25,000 KMF (about $55), paid through the HOLO mobile payment service, whether you're enrolling for the first time, transferring programs, or re-enrolling after a break. The university has not published a complete public breakdown of annual tuition by faculty, so treat the pre-registration fee as an entry cost and confirm full-year charges with your faculty's administration.

Francophone networks fund research and mobility

Universite des Comores belongs to the Agence universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF) , the network linking French-speaking universities. AUF membership gives Comorian students and staff access to joint master's and doctoral programs run with partner universities across the Francophone world, plus digital library resources and research mobility grants tied to those joint programs. AUF funding runs on program-specific cycles rather than one fixed annual scholarship, so ask your faculty secretariat which joint programs are open to your department.

Most students still rely on family and diaspora support

Comoros has no large-scale, needs-tested student loan system on the scale of Kenya's HELB or South Africa's NSFAS. Family income and money sent home by relatives abroad, mostly in France, cover the largest share of student costs for most households. The Comorian diaspora in France runs into the hundreds of thousands, a large share relative to the fewer than 900,000 people living in the country, and one independent analysis of the Comorian economy estimates the remittances that group sends home at around a fifth to a quarter of national GDP, more than the country earns from exports (independent economic analysis ). If you don't secure a scholarship, plan for family or a relative abroad to carry most of your registration and living costs.

What to track

• 📩 Submit scholarship requests through e-Bourse instead of paper forms.

• 🎓 Ask your faculty secretariat which AUF joint programs are open to your department.

• 💵 Budget 25,000 KMF for pre-registration, and confirm full tuition separately.

• ⏱️ Apply early. A digital system still depends on how fast your transcripts and certificates get processed.

Comoros publishes less granular scholarship data than larger education systems in the region. If you can't find a published stipend amount or eligibility threshold for a specific fund, contact the issuing office directly rather than relying on secondhand listings, since many scholarship aggregator sites carry outdated or unverified figures.