Out of 8,000 international applicants, only 95 people were selected to receive the 2025 Gates Cambridge Scholarship and a Filipino international student in Toronto, Niño Jan Pol Dosdos, is among them.

“I’m still absorbing the news,” Dosdos says. “For one, I am the first in the family to earn a university degree and now a Gates Cambridge Scholar.”

The full scholarship at the University of Cambridge Graduate Studies will help fund Dosdos’ master’s degree in Philosophy and Anthropological Research. It’s a nine-month program that could have cost him almost £55,000 or close to CAD 100,000.

“In my Gates Cambridge interview, they asked me what was something unique about me, and I told them, my work in the community preceded my academic pursuits,” Dosdos says.

The scholarship, known to have an

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