Central Bedfordshire College are proud to announce an exciting development with two very exciting links with two American Universities, Tiffin University in Ohio and Belmont Abbey College in North Carolina.
The links will provide Central Bedfordshire College Students a fantastic opportunity to study, train and live in the United States.
Belmont Abbey’s Assistant Soccer Coach, Stuart Gore, visited Central Beds College whilst he was in the UK recruiting in the American off season. Stuart had been reading up on the college’s recent success in all three of their leagues and how the College is currently at the top and phoned ahead to see if he could come and watch the students play and train.
Stuart was that impressed with the talent that the college had to offer he immediately got in touch with his Manger and the link was set up, he also called the head coach Tiffin University, Ohio, and recommended to them that they also could benefit from a link to Central Bedfordshire College and that link has also been established.
Partnership
This partnership between the two universities will allow the Central Bedfordshire College students who meet the strict criteria to study their chosen degree to benefit from a fantastic experience living and studying in the United States. It will also allow them the opportunity to achieve their degree and graduate debt free.
Scholarships
Scholarships are only offered to students of the highest calibre both academically through their sporting excellence, in this case football. The students will receive an academic scholarship and a sporting scholarship which will pay for the majority of their tuition fees. Both of the schools fee are around $20,000 a year and our lucky students will only have to pay approximately $4000 depending on their grades and their footballing ability. On completion of their degree in the states the students will be debt free and be ready to start their careers.
Two students have already been offered scholarships and there is plenty of interest for next year.
Recruitment
Central Beds players will be recommended to the universities by Colin Sharpe the Football Development manager at the college on an annual basis. Stuart and the other American coaches will come over to the college in the off season to take a look at the players for themselves and check their academic grades with the college before the players are 100% selected and offered places. The college will also be invited over to the states to participate in tournaments against other colleges in Ohio and North Carolina.
Future
Overall these links with Belmont Abbey College and Tiffin University will allow Central Bedfordshire College a unique opportunity to send its most talented students to gain an American soccer scholarship in the states. Also this link will also attract more local players to the programme as Central Beds are the only college in the county that can offer such an excellent opportunity.
For more information on this exciting course simply
contact csharpe@centralbeds.ac.uk or visit www.centralbeds.ac.uk/football
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