The Dalai Lama Foundation, a foundation established by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, has granted scholarships to thirty graduate and doctoral students of Tibetan origin. Tibet.net reported that the awardees are students enrolled in universities in the United States, Canada, France, Germany, and Switzerland. Each yearly scholarship per student is upto $10,000 [£ 8,200] and the total amount for this year was stated to be worth US$ 239,500 [ £ 196,980].