Scholarships and Financial Schemes

 

The University offers financial assistance to full-time graduate research students through its research Scholarships. The scholarship for MSc and PhD are 2 and 4 years respectively. The types of scholarships available are:

 

NUS Research Scholarships (RS)

These scholarships are open to all PhD graduate students. It is tenable for 1 year in the first instance and is renewable annually, subject to satisfactory progress. Each scholarship carries :

• For PhD the monthly stipend for Singapore citizens, Singapore Permanent
  Residents and foreigners are currently S$2,800, S$2,400 and S$2,200   
  respectively
• A monthly top-up of $500 for PhD candidate upon passing the PhD Qualifying Exam
• No travel or other allowances are provided.

In return, scholarship recipients are required to render a nominal 6 hours of work per week without remuneration. The work rendered will be in the nature of research or teaching or department work as dictated by Thesis Advisor and Vice-Dean (Research).

More details are available at

NUS Research Scholarship (with GAP) : https://nusgs.nus.edu.sg/nus-research-scholarship-terms-conditions/
NUS Research Scholarship (GAP exempted) : https://nusgs.nus.edu.sg/nus-research-scholarship-terms-conditions-gap-exempted/

Other Financial/Loan Schemes

Other forms of scholarships and schemes are available for specific programmes. A list of such schemes are available at

https://nusgs.nus.edu.sg/scholarships/

Details of Tuition Fee Loan Scheme can be found at https://nusgs.nus.edu.sg/tuition-fee-loan-scheme/