PhD Scholarships in Department of Chemistry
Application information
Admission requirements:
For more information, please visit the graduate studies website or contact the department.
- A Bachelor’s (Honours) degree or a 4-year Bachelor’s degree
- Candidates applying for Research Scholarships must have obtained a bachelor’s degree with at least a 2nd Class Upper Honours, or its equivalent.
- For all PhD programmes, a candidate whose medium of undergraduate instruction is not English is required to submit TOEFL (with the minimum score 85 for the internet-based test) or IELTS (with the minimum score 6.0) scores.
- TOEFL/ IELTS scores and score reports, if required for the PhD and MbR applications, must be valid. For the validity of TOEFL/ IELTS scores and score reports, please refer to: https://www.science.nus.edu.sg/graduates/msc-by-research/faq-for-phd-and-msc-by-research-programmes/.
- Applicants must submit the English-translated versions of required documents (e.g. degree scroll, transcript), as well as their original versions, in their applications. Such translations must be done by the applicant’s university. For Chinese applicants, the English versions of the CHSI or CSCSE verification documents would alternatively be acceptable.
- For all PhD programmes, candidates are strongly encouraged to submit GRE (minimum score of 320 [Verbal+ Quantitative] and 3.5 [Analytical Writing]).
Awards:
Dean Graduate Fellowship (DGF)
- Selected from those with RSB, SINGA, IRP in admission per AY (top 20%)
- There is no need for students to apply for DGF. Selection is done by FOS.
- GAP hours remain unchanged – total 416 hours (for IS)
- Stipends in years 1-4, increase by 600 S$ per month
- SC: S$3,400 +CPF 578; SPR: S$3,000; IS: S$2,800
FoS PhD Conference Award (FPCA)
- Support PhD students at FoS to attend conferences to present their research
- Each PhD can only be awarded once during his/her PhD candidature
- To be decided by FoS Graduate EXCO
- Up to S$3,500 per award by claim for attending a conference
- Usually for year-3 and year-4 PhD students
Two rounds call of application per AY
- For January intake: 1 January to 15 May (of the previous year)
- For August intake: 16 May to 15 November (of the previous year)
- Please choose up to 3 proposed PhD supervisors from the “Faculty” and “Jointly Appointed Faculty” sections only, from https://chemistry.nus.edu.sg/about-us/our-people/
Best Poster Awards
- Selection is done during the Graduate e-Poster Symposium for year-3 students.
- Best Poster Awardees will get a monetary prize.
