NUS Graduate School for Integrative Sciences and Engineering in Singapore 2020

The NGS Scholarship is awarded to talented students with an aptitude for innovative, high calibre PhD research.

Terms

• Monthly stipend, up to 4 years of the PhD studies, OR up to date of graduation, whichever is earlier, of
  • S$3,500 for Singapore Citizens, plus Central Provident Fund (CPF) contributions at a rate pegged to the prevailing employer’s contribution rate set by CPF
  • S$3,200 for Singapore Permanent Residents
  • S$3,000 for International students
• Full tuition fee subsidy for 4 years.
  
• Other allowances include
  • computer allowance
  • book allowance
  • conference allowance.
• Student must commit to PhD from the outset, cannot exit with MSc.
  

Eligibility

• Opens worldwide.
• Graduates with a passion for cross-disciplinary research in science, engineering, computing, and related aspects of medicine.
• Graduates with at least 2nd Upper Honours, or equivalent qualifications.
• GRE is
  • compulsory for all applicants, Please note it cannot be substituted by GATE.
  • compulsory for NUS and NTU Masters students and graduates.
  • only waived for NUS, NTU and SUTD Bachelor degree holders and final-year undergraduates.
• TOEFL / IELTS (either can be used) is only compulsory for applicants whose
  • native tongue
  • medium of undergraduate instruction is not in English

Conditions

• Students are not eligible for the President’s Graduate Fellowship (PGF).
• Award is renewable, subject to satisfactory academic performance of CAP ≥ 3.8 at the end of every semester.
• Applicants doing a Masters programme at the point of application
  
  • before matriculating in NGS for PhD at NGS.
  • must have officially completed the Masters programme, and
  • must have been conferred the Masters degree
  Applicants who have submitted their Masters thesis only, but who
  
  • have not officially graduated from the Masters programme, and
  • have not been conferred the Masters degree
  must therefore defer their admission (from matriculation to registration) into NGS, until the Masters degree has been officially awarded.
• Applicants
  
  • required to serve any bond after graduation from existing (be it Bachelor / Master’s) programme,  and who intend to commence their NGS’ PhD immediately after official graduation
  • serving any bond at the point of application to NGS’ PhD
  should declare such information in the Questionnaire section of the application form.

Supervisors

NGS members in NUS and Duke-NUS in integrated research programmes.

Application

Please follow the application instructions HERE in its entirety.

Important

• Only online applications via https://inetapps.nus.edu.sg/GDA2/Home.aspx are accepted.
• You must also complete a critical Google Questionnaire.
• Your application is only considered COMPLETE after you
  • submit your PDF dossier
  • submit your hardcopy package
  • complete and submit  your Google Questionnaire
• Please refer to the application instructions HERE for comprehensive details.

For NGS Scholarship – specific enquiries, please contact Ms Anuradha Chandra <ngsack@nus.edu.sg>.

Closing Date

• Only COMPLETE (with all required documents) application(s) received BEFORE the application deadline will be processed.
• Completed / Incomplete application received AFTER the application deadline will be automatically considered for the next Intake.

Intake	Closing Date
August Semester 1	Application opens on 1st Septembercloses on 15th December

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