Funding and Scholarships

Funding Opportunities

For outstanding master’s and PhD students to pursue their
full-time graduate studies in Sociology and Anthropology at NUS

Scholarships

Scholarships are typically available each academic year.

Interested applicants are strongly encouraged to check latest updates regarding these scholarship opportunities on the respective NUS websites.

President’s Graduate Fellowship (PGF)

The President's Graduate Fellowship (PGF) is awarded to incoming PhD candidates who show exceptional promise or accomplishment in research. PGF recipients can be from any nationalities.

· Each PGF carries a monthly stipend, tuition fee subsidy, a one-off air travel allowance, and a one-off settling allowance.
· The PGF is initially awarded for one year and renewable each semester based on the scholar’s performance. The maximum award is four years.
· PGF recipients typically demonstrate exemplary academic record (i.e., top performance in undergraduate/graduate studies), strong research potentials (i.e., credible signs of research ability, interests that might lead to a path-breaking piece of work), strong ethical characters and high potential to succeed at NUS.

Research Scholars (RS)

A limited number of Research Scholarships (RS) is available for PhD (all nationalities) and master’s (Singapore citizens/permanent residents only) candidates.

· Each RS carries a monthly stipend plus a tuition fee subsidy.
· The initial duration of the RS is one year and renewable based on the scholar’s academic performance. For PhD candidates, the scholarship is valid until the completion of the fourth year of their program, while for master’s candidates, it is valid until the completion of the second year.
· RS applicants must be university graduates with at least Second Class Honours (Upper Division)/Honours (Distinction) or equivalent.

The Harvard-Yenching institute (HYI) and NUS Joint Scholarship

The Harvard-Yenching Institute (HYI) and NUS Joint Scholarship is awarded to eligible PhD candidates who will spend the first 38 months at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, NUS (financed by NUS), while the remaining 10 months will be spent at Harvard University (financed by HYI).

· Each HYI-NUS Joint Scholarship carries a monthly stipend, tuition fee subsidy, and one round-trip economy airfare between Singapore and USA.
· Applicants for the HYI-NUS Joint Scholarship must be nominated by their home university, which has to be one of HYI partner universities in Southeast Asia (Vietnam, Thailand and Cambodia). They will also need to hold a teaching position or possess teaching experience at one of these partner institutions and are assured reemployment after graduation from NUS.

Joint NUS-King’s College London PhD Programme

NUS Research Scholarships are available for eligible PhD candidates to pursue the Joint NUS-King’s College London PhD Programme.

· Applicants of the joint PhD Programme are required to write to NUS and KCL potential advisors to ascertain their interest/suitability in your research topic.
· Each candidate of the NUS-KCL Joint PhD Programme will be registered in one home university but guided in their work by faculty members from both NUS and KCL, and examined to the standards of both.
· Scholarship holders will receive a monthly stipend and tuition fee subsidy.