NGS Scholarship (NGSS)

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 and NTU Bachelor degree holders and final-year undergraduates.
• TOEFL / IELTS (either can be used) is only compulsory 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.
• Applicants doing a Masters programme at the point of application
  
  • must have officially completed the Masters programme, and
  • must have been conferred the Masters degree
  before matriculating in NGS for PhD at NGS.
  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
  and/or
  
  • serving any bond at the point of application to NGS’ PhD
  should declare such information in the Questionnaire section of the application form.

Successful applicants should automatically, in their own initiative, apply for deferment of serving of the bond.  The official memo documenting the approval of deferment of bond service should be submitted to NGS at least one month before matriculation into NGS’ PhD.

 

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
BEFORE the application deadline.

• 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
January 2018 ( AY2017/18 Semester 2)	Special extension for PhD (Data Science) only 9th October 2017
August 2018 ( AY2018/19 Semester 1)	Application opens on 1st September 2017 closes on 15th December 2017