{"id":14379,"date":"2015-05-08T09:33:05","date_gmt":"2015-05-08T09:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/postgraduate\/?p=1278"},"modified":"2015-05-08T09:33:05","modified_gmt":"2015-05-08T09:33:05","slug":"my-jai-hind-college-scholarships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/2015\/05\/08\/my-jai-hind-college-scholarships\/","title":{"rendered":"My Jai Hind College scholarships"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tAnirudh Bhardwaj, an MA Producing Film & Television student from India, tells us his scholarship story…<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\"Anirudh-1-ed\"<\/a>Getting a Master\u2019s Degree in Film was something I always joked about, never seriously considering leaving a budding production company of my own back home in Mumbai to struggle in a foreign country earning a degree that I didn\u2019t feel I needed. In fact even when I was filling out my application to universities in the UK, I wasn\u2019t really serious about actually taking up any offers. Having confessed to this you can imagine how far getting any sort of scholarship was from my mind back then.<\/p>\n

After completing my undergraduate degree with a distinction, I started my own production company in Mumbai and worked for two years doing small corporate ad films and short films. In this time I realised that I needed formal training if this was something I wanted to take seriously. As the size of the projects grew, so did my mistakes and in April of 2014, I took my first serious look at taking up any postgraduate offers that came my way.<\/p>\n

I was adamant that I wanted my degree from the UK and more adamant that it be from one of the top universities for my field. I narrowed it down to BU for its unique blend of film theory and practice which was something I was specifically looking for.<\/p>\n

It is very expensive for an Indian student to come and study in the UK. The only way I was going to be able to afford it, was if I got a substantial scholarship. I looked up the list of scholarships on the BU website and had a detailed discussion on this subject with the BU representative at the education fairs in India at the time.\u00a0 I knew this was going to be a major hurdle as the amount of international students applying for scholarships is quite large. Having gotten my acceptance letter from the university, I applied to all the scholarships that I was eligible for, hoping to bag at least one so as to ease some financial pressure.<\/p>\n

It was a very tense few weeks that followed as rejection would mean I would have to make do with an MA that was not from one of the top universities for my field. As it happened, I was awarded an almost 50% scholarship in total which gave me some breathing space financially and also gave my confidence a huge boost, which was an equally major thing, as living alone in a completely foreign country is a daunting task.<\/p>\n\"Anirudh-2-ed\"<\/a>\n

In hindsight, I feel that my prior experience in the field was a major reason for me getting awarded the scholarship.\u00a0 \u00a0Another advantage I had was that I had done my undergraduate degree from a college that was affiliated to BU and having completed that degree with a distinction held me in good stead.<\/p>\n

Life at BU has been a roller coaster ride. As a Master\u2019s student, you get thrown in the deep end from the get go and that carries on as long as your course does. That isn\u2019t a bad thing though, as you become accustomed to making the best of any kind of situation. The course is quite intense and time flies. It feels like just yesterday that I was doing my Induction Project, but in truth it was way back in September of last year.<\/p>\n

My number one tip for anyone looking to get a scholarship at BU is to have a good amount of experience in their field of study. Grades, Distinctions & IELTS scores help, but I feel that for a Master\u2019s application, it is imperative that you have enough work experience behind you to be able to hold your own in a conversation with your peers.<\/p>\n

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Anirudh is currently studying MA Producing Film & Television<\/a> and was awarded the Postgraduate International Partnership Scholarship Jai Hind College, India<\/a> and the International Partnership Scholarship Jai Hind College, India. \u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Jai Hind College is a current education partner with BU and therefore offers scholarships to any current student or alumnus of that College.<\/p>\n

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Anirudh Bhardwaj, an MA Producing Film & Television student from India, tells us his scholarship story… Getting a Master\u2019s Degree in Film was something I always joked about, never seriously considering leaving a budding production company of my own back home in Mumbai to struggle in a foreign country earning a degree that I didn\u2019t… Read more » about My Jai Hind College scholarships<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1096,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1658,1663],"tags":[877,1711,130,48,295,785,1975,2048,2186,255],"class_list":["post-14379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-archive","category-postgraduate","tag-bournemouth","tag-anirudh-bhardwaj","tag-bournemouth-university","tag-bu","tag-funding","tag-international-student","tag-jai-hind","tag-masters","tag-postgraduate-study","tag-scholarships"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1096"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}