The NGS Scholarship is awarded to talented students with an aptitude for innovative, high calibre PhD research.
**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.
Eligibility Criteria
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).
Offered Benefits
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.