The growth of science and technology in the South has increasingly been hampered by lack of commitment on the part of governments and scarcity of financial resources to support academic activities. There have been very few incentives for the personal and intellectual growth of the scientists, thus leading to brain drain, which has created an intellectual vacuum in the third world. COMSATS has started scholarship programme to address this critical issue. Currently, this programme is sponsoring around 20 students from COMSATS member countries. Initially, scholarships have been announced at the following institutions:

1. HEJ Research Institute of Chemistry, Karachi University, Karachi - Pakistan
2. International Centre of Climate and Environmental Sciences (ICCES), Beijing - China
3. COMSATS Institute of Information Technology (CIIT), Islamabad - Pakistan
4. National University of Science and Technology (NUST), Islamabad - Pakistan
5. Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences (PIEAS), Islamabad - Pakistan
6. Damascus University, Damascus - Arab Republic of Syria