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The Crown Prince’s International Scholarship Program (CPISP) has started the assessment process for 1360 scholarship applicants from government and private schools, as well as Bahraini students studying abroad.

The Program, in cooperation with the Bahrain Institute of Banking and Finance (BIBF), has begun administering qualifying tests at the BIBF headquarters to assess candidates’ English language proficiency and critical reasoning skills.

Speaking on the process, the CPISP Executive Director of Finance and Administration Affairs, Mrs. Shatha Ahmed Ali, noted that the qualifying tests measure the students’ English language proficiency, in addition to assessing verbal, numerical, and diagrammatical reasoning skills through three critical reasoning tests. For applicants currently studying outside of Bahrain, the Program arranged for applicants to take the tests under supervised conditions at an appropriate location.

The CPISP Executive Director of Finance and Administration Affairs highlighted that the next phase will be for the Program to select a minimum of 80 candidates based on the results of the qualifying tests and their Grade Point Average.  The candidates, who will be announced before the end of June of this year, will then undergo various training and preparation courses for standardized testing throughout the summer and the next academic year, ahead of the final scholarship recipients being selected in April 2027.

The CPISP Executive Director of Finance and Administration Affairs confirmed that the Program received a total of 1423 applications during the submission period from 1 – 15 March 2026. The Program’s application criteria include Bahraini citizenship, a GPA of 97% or higher, and enrollment in the 11th grade (or equivalent), with graduation in 2027.