PhD Programme

PhD Scholarships in Department of Chemistry

• NUS Research Scholarship
• President’s Graduate Fellowship (PGF)
• NUS Industry-Relevant PhD Scholarship (NUS-IRP)
• A*STAR Graduate Scholarship
• NUS Suzhou Research Institute Scholarship
• NUS Chongqing Research Institute Scholarship
• AI Singapore Scholarship
• PhD Scholarship under research grant (contact the proposed supervisor)

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.
• 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.