Sample of Interview questions

Icebreaker questions

The interviewer will want to make you feel comfortable and get to know you

• Tell me more about yourself/your family?
• If you were to choose one word to describe yourself what would it be?
• Have you ever travelled to a foreign country before?

Understanding your goals

These questions are to get a better insight about your choices

• Tell us about your achievements/best student memories
• What are your career goals?
• Why have you chosen to study abroad rather than in Nepal?

Questions based on university and course

• Why did you choose our university?
• Have you applied accepted to any other grad schools?
• Why have you chosen this particular course/major?

Questions to assess your personality

• What do you do outside of academics?
• How do you respond to challenges, tell us one in your past?
• What are the areas that you feel you can improve yourself on?

Questions based on your application

• You wrote in your SOP that you like rock climbing (or anything else), where did you go last?
• Tell us about recent advancement in your field of study
• One of your recommendation letters was from X? Tell us about…

Scholarship based questions

• Why do you deserve this scholarship?
• What will you do if you don’t receive it?
• Do you know about the founder of the scholarship? How do you fit its values?

Come prepared with your own questions

The university representative will usually ask you if there is anything you want to ask. Be prepared.

• What is the day-to-day like in the course I want to take?
• What are the next steps and is there a deadline when I will know my admission status?