Mexico Government
Excellence Scholarships

Mexico offers one of the most accessible government scholarships in the world. Citizens from more than 170 countries are eligible, and the scholarship covers tuition, a monthly stipend, and medical insurance. The agency behind it is AMEXCID — the Mexican Agency for International Development Cooperation — which sits inside the country's foreign affairs ministry (SRE). The full program name is Becas de Excelencia del Gobierno de México para Extranjeros, though most people just call it the Mexico Government Scholarship or the AMEXCID scholarship.

What makes this scholarship genuinely different from most others is that it does not work like a traditional scholarship application. You do not apply to AMEXCID first and then find a university. The process runs in the opposite direction: you first get admitted to a participating Mexican university, obtain a formal acceptance letter from them, and then you apply to AMEXCID using that letter as part of your application. If you send AMEXCID an application without a valid university acceptance letter, it gets rejected immediately.

This single point of confusion is responsible for more failed applications than anything else. Most scholarship guides bury this information or skip it entirely. We put it at the top because it determines whether you can even apply in the first place.

Beyond the application sequence, there are a few other things the official website either does not make clear or only mentions in fine print: the monthly stipend does not cover housing, medical insurance does not kick in until your seventh month in Mexico, and the return airfare is only provided when you complete the scholarship — not when you arrive. This guide covers all of it.