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Entrance Scholarships for Outstanding Overseas Students
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1. This document is based on the “Guidelines for granting international student scholarships for colleges and their Chinese language teaching institutions from the Ministry of Education”, with the purpose to encourage outstanding foreign students to study in the university and to help solve their living difficulties in Taiwan, thereby speeding up the university’s internationalization process. |
2. Amount:(1) Undergraduate and Master students shall receive NT $30,000 per semester.(2) Ph.D. students shall receive NT $40,000 per semester.
(3) The Scholarship will be disbursed the following semester. |
3. Funding and quota:(1) The scholarships are funded by the Ministry of Education and related school expenses.(2) The number of scholarships granted each year may vary according to the Ministry of Education’s annual budget. |
4. Application Eligibility:(1) Foreign students with formal application and enrollment of TKU, and in accordance with the Ministry of Education “International students Undertaking Studies in Taiwan”.(2) In the following semester, applicants must be students of foreign nationality who are not receiving government scholarships or the TKU Tuition Waiver Scholarship.(3) Completed at least one semester in TKU, scored 80 points or more in the current semester for Conduct, must be of good behavior, does not have any bad records and who satisfied the following criteria:
(4) Applicants must view participation in “Chat Corner” as a priority in the period in which they are receiving the scholarship. |
5. Application Process:(1) The scholarship is open for application in the fourteenth week of each semester, with the deadline in the sixteenth week. Students need to submit online application to the Office of International and Cross-Strait Affairs (OICSA). Once completed, all application documents must be submitted to the Office of International and Cross-Strait Affairs (OICSA) the week before the final semester examination.(2) All scholarship applications and their supporting documents will be evaluated by the Overseas Student Scholarship Review Committee. |
6. Documents required:(1) Chinese transcripts for every academic year (OICSA will collect students’ transcripts from Office of Academic Affairs, students do not need to hand in.)(2) Proof of priority participation in 20 hours of TKU Office of International and Cross-Strait Affairs (OICSA) activities for the previous semester—not required for first time applicants (activity content and times shall be determined by the OICSA, which will assume a supervisory role during such activities).
(3) Low-income Certificate if any, for audit purposes (4) Proof of excellent performance (e.g. journal publications, awards, extracurricular activities) and other documents that may be helpful. |
7. Scholarship recipients must prioritize participation in TKU activities for 20 hours per semester. Activity content and times shall be determined by the OICSA, which will assume a supervisory role during such activities. |
8. Students who did not complete their registration in the following semester will not be awarded the scholarship. Scholarship disbursement that has been awarded will be taken back. |
9. The above regulations take effect from the date of their promulgation, after being approved by the International and Exchange Student Committee. The same applies to any amendments made thereafter. |
TKU Foreign Students Financial Aid
1. The purpose of this document is to help foreign students solve their living or school’s difficulties in Taiwan.
2. Those who applied for the scholarship will have to do English or other language teaching, translation, or other relating work arranged by the Office of International and Cross-Strait Affairs (OICSA).
3. The number of scholarships granted each year may vary according to the school’s annual budget.
4. Funding:Each student will receive NT $10,000 per month, up to three months.
5. Application Eligibility:
- Foreign students with formal application and enrollment of TKU, and in accordance with the Ministry of Education “International students Undertaking Studies in Taiwan”.
- Those who already received Taiwan Government Scholarships, TKU Entrance Scholarships and The Outstanding Foreign Student Scholarship are not qualified to apply.
- For freshman that do not have any score record need to submit Chinese or English proficiency certificate and other documents. Those who already completed at least one semester in TKU, scored 80 points or more in the current semester for Conduct, must be of good behavior, does not have any bad records and who satisfied the following criteria:
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- Undergraduate students must take the minimum credits comply with the “TKU Regulations on Student Course Selection” per semester, with an average academic grade of 60 or above for the current semester and keep a clean behavioral record.
- Graduate students must take at least 4 credits per semester, with an average academic grade of 80 or above for the previous semester. From their sixth and fourth years of study respectively, PhD candidates and graduate students will not be eligible to apply for this scholarship.
- Graduate students who are working on their master or doctoral dissertations and are unable to provide an academic record for the previous semester should submit recommendation letters from their advisors of the departments or graduate institutes at which they are enrolled, as well as a dissertation plan. This should include: your research motivation, research structure, sources of research materials, research outline, research references, and etc. Graduate students who are working on their dissertations without taking at least 4 credits can only apply for the scholarship twice.
6. Audit criteria:All scholarship applications will be evaluated by the Overseas Student Scholarship Review Committee based on the students’ whole performance and language ability documents provided by the applicants.
7. Those who receive the scholarship are required to do English teaching or translation work for 30 hours per month. (please provide a photocopy of a valid Work Permit)
8. The above regulations take effect from the date of their promulgation, after being approved by the International and Exchange Student Committee. The same applies to any amendments made thereafter.
Tamkang University’s Chang Yeo Lan Scholarship
1. Application Eligibility:Newly-admitted overseas students are automatically included in the list of candidates for “Tamkang University’s Chang Yeo Lan Scholarship”.
2. Amout& Numbers of Recipient:
Bachelor’s Program: each receives NT$50,000.
Master’s & Doctoral Program: 10 students as a principle, each receives NT$100,000.
Please refer to the following document for detailed information: Yeo Lan Scholarship for TKU Overseas Students.
Tamkang University Chang Yeo Lan Scholarship Management Implementation Guidelines |
Tamkang University Incoming Exchange Students Scholarship
1. This scholarship was initiated to encourage students from Tamkang University’s (TKU) partner universities to study at TKU, and to enhance the academic cooperation between TKU and partner universities as well as promote the university internationalization.
2. Funding: Each student will receive NT $10,000 per semester, up to one academic year.
3. Quota: The number of scholarships granted may vary according to the university’s annual budget.
4. Application eligibility:
- This scholarship is open to the exchange students from the partner universities that have had an established academic collaboration agreement with TKU, but not applicable to the students from Mainland China partner universities. To be eligible, undergraduate students must maintain an average academic grade of 65 or above (or GPA 2.5); graduate students must maintain an average academic grade of 75 or above (or GPA 3). Students must also display good conduct and keep a clean behavioral record.
- For new students, the scholarship is open for application when students apply for admission to TKU. For students who have enrolled in TKU, they can send in their scholarship applications three weeks before the final examination week in the first semester and the application deadline is one week before the final examination.
5. Required documents:
- Application Form
- Official academic transcript from home institution. (Students currently study at TKU do not need to hand in. TKU will collect students’ transcripts from the Office of Academic Affairs.)
6. Applicants must view participation in “Chat Corner” as a priority in the period in which they are receiving the scholarship.
7. Based on the principle of equal reciprocity, if partner universities grant scholarships to exchange students from TKU, the latter will respond in kind by apportioning an equivalent number of scholarships to exchange students from such universities. The remaining scholarship places will then be open for regular scholarship application.
8. All scholarship applications and their supporting documents will be evaluated by the Overseas Student Scholarship Review Committee.
9. The above regulations take effect from the date of their promulgation, after being approved by the International and Exchange Student Committee. The same applies to any amendments made thereafter.