NGS Scholarship (NGSS) for PhD Research – Singapore

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

• Monthly stipend of S$3,200 up to 4 years of the PhD studies, or up to date of graduation, whichever is earlier.
• Other allowances include
  1. computer allowance
  2. book allowance
  3. 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 students applying from overseas. Only strongly recommended for graduates from local institutions, e.g. NUS or NTU.
• TOEFL is compulsory (ONLY applicable for applicants whose native tongue or 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.

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

Application: Click here to apply online*. All supporting documents, together with a printed copy of the application form are to be submitted by post to:

NUS Graduate School for Integrative Sciences & Engineering (NGS)
Centre For Life Sciences (CeLS)
28 Medical Drive, #05-01
Singapore 117456

* ONLY Online Applications are accepted. For instructions and application procedures, please click here.

Application

• opens on 1 September 2014
• closes on 15 November 2014

For more details, visit: http://www.nus.edu.sg/ngs/NGSS.html