Masters

Amount:

• A maintenance allowance for a single student (14,900 GBP or 25,700 CAD for 12 months; pro rata for courses shorter than 12 months)
• University Composition Fee
• Round-trip airfare
• Academic development funding
• Family allowance

Deadline: October of each year (for USA applicants); December or January of each year (for all other eligible applicants)

Requirements:

Citizenship: Non-UK citizens

General: must apply to PhD, MSc or MLitt, or one-year postgraduate course in University of Cambridge

Eligibility:

• Must be a citizen of any country outside the UK.
• Must be applying to pursue one of the following full-time residential courses of Cambridge: (1) PhD (3 year research-only degree); (2) MSc or MLitt (2 year research-only degree); (3) one year postgraduate course (e.g. MPhil, LLM, MASt, Diploma, MBA, etc.).

Details:

• Scholarships are awarded to outstanding applicants from countries outside the UK to pursue a full-time postgraduate degree in any subject available at the University of Cambridge.
• The ideal candidate demonstrates academic excellence, leadership potential, a commitment to improving the lives of others, and a good academic fit with Cambridge.
• For PhD students who meet unforeseen circumstances and are unable to complete in three years, some fourth year funding may be provided.

Link:

https://www.gatescambridge.org/

Amount:

• A monthly stipend of 25,000 TWD (1,070 CAD, amounts to 12,840 CAD/year) for the LEP and 30,000 TWD (1,290 CAD/month, amounts to 15,480 CAD/year) for degree programs
• Round-trip airfares

Deadline: February 1 to March 31, annually

Requirements:

Citizenship: Non-Taiwanese

General: eligible for applying for Mandarin Language Enrichment Program or a degree program

Eligibility:

• Must be a high school graduate or above with an excellent academic record, of good moral character and has no criminal record.
• Must be neither a national of the Republic of China (Taiwan) nor an overseas compatriot student.
• Must have never attended an educational institution in Taiwan at the same level of degree or LEP that he/she intends to apply for.
• Must be not an exchange student through any cooperation agreement between a foreign university/college and an educational institute in Taiwan while receiving the Scholarship.

Details:

• The MOFA Taiwan Scholarship encourages outstanding students to pursue academic degrees in Taiwan.
• Applicants can apply for either the non-degree Mandarin Language Enrichment Program (LEP) (Recipients may take the LEP for a maximum of one year at Mandarin-teaching institutions affiliated with a university or college accredited by the Ministry of Education) or a degree program (an undergraduate, master or doctoral degree, excluding in-service programs).
• The duration can be one year (for non-degree LEP), two years maximum (for Master’s program), or four years maximum (for undergraduate or doctoral program).

Link:

http://tafs.mofa.gov.tw/SchDetailed.aspx?loc=en&ItemId=15

Amount:

• A monthly stipend of 15,000 TWD (640 CAD, amounts to 7,680 CAD/year) for undergraduate program students, and 20,000 TWD (860 CAD, amounts to 10,320 CAD/year) for postgraduate students.
• Tuition

Deadline: February 1 to March 31, annually

Requirements:

Citizenship: Non-Taiwanese

General: eligible for two-to-five-years degree programs

Eligibility:

• Must possess a high school diploma or higher.
• Must have performed well at his/her most recent academic institution and be of good moral character.
• Must be neither a Taiwanese national, nor an overseas Taiwanese compatriot.
• Must have never enrolled in an educational institution in Taiwan for the same level of degree as the current application.
• Must not be an exchange student through an academic cooperation agreement between an overseas university/college and an educational institute in Taiwan.

Details:

• The MOE Taiwan Scholarship encourages outstanding students to pursue academic degrees in Taiwan.
• The duration can be two years maximum (for Master’s program), or four years maximum (for undergraduate or doctoral program), five years maximum (for any combination of programs).

Link:

http://tafs.mofa.gov.tw/SchDetailed.aspx?loc=en&ItemId=18

Amount:

• A monthly stipend of 12,000 TWD (510 CAD, amounts to 6,120 CAD/year) for undergraduate students, 15,000 TWD (640 CAD, amounts to 7,680 CAD/year) for master's students and 17,000 TWD (730 CAD, amounts to 8,760 CAD/year) for doctoral students
• Tuition
• Housing
• Insurance
• Round-trip airfares

Deadline: March 15, annually

Requirements:

Citizenship: Non-Taiwanese

General: eligible for two-to-five-years degree programs

Eligibility:

• Applicants should be nationals of countries with which the R.O.C. has diplomatic relations or developing countries friendly to Taiwan. For more detailed information, please visit the TaiwanICDF website.

Details:

• The International Cooperation and Development Fund (TaiwanICDF) works with prestigious universities in Taiwan to select students to receive full scholarships for undergraduate and postgraduate programs taught in English.
• The duration can be two years maximum (for Master’s program), or four years maximum (for English-taught undergraduate or doctoral program), five years maximum (for for Mandarin-taught undergraduate program).

Link:

http://tafs.mofa.gov.tw/SchDetailed.aspx?loc=en&ItemId=13

Amount:

• Depending on the project, ranging from 2,000 USD to 12,000 USD.

Deadline: September, annual.

Duration: unspecified.

Eligibility:

• Scholars from low- and lower middle-income countries of Southeast Asia and South Asia. When evaluating proposals from Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, and India, the review committee will prioritize applicants who come from regions and/or institutions with resource and infrastructure constraints.
• Individual and Collaborative projects.
• Scholars, students, independent researchers, and public intellectuals, who are based in low- and lower medium-income countries as well as those who come from and may be living in post-conflict areas or areas where conflicts are still ongoing.
• Both AAS and non-AAS members.

Details:

• The proposed short- and long-term research grants will support academic projects that advance the fields of the humanities and the social sciences in under-represented regions of Asia. In the humanities, they may include research focused on history, philosophy, religion, languages, literature, and fine and performing arts. In the social sciences, they include − but are not limited to − the disciplines of anthropology, archaeology, economics, geography, law, politics, psychology, sociology, etc.
• Grant program encourages individual and group projects (such as those bringing senior and junior scholars together) that will explore the mainstreamed subjects of:

1. Development
2. Democracy
3. Human Rights
4. Gender
5. The Environment
6. Forest Conservation in the Philippines

• These themes may be researched on their own, or, in combination with one another, or in ways that cut across the humanities and social sciences.
• The program also welcomes proposals for special initiatives aimed at the recording, preservation, and dissemination of endangered languages, oral histories, and traditional knowledge. Funding may be used for:

1. Research essential for postdoctoral scholars and Ph.D. and master’s students’ thesis, dissertation, and/or book projects.
2. For manuscript revisions and journal articles in the humanities and social sciences,
3. Small scholarly seminars and pedagogical workshops.
4. Translation.
5. Curriculum development.
6. Textbooks projects that facilitate the dissemination and implementation of the research results.
7. Documentary films and visual arts projects.

Link:

https://www.asianstudies.org/grants-awards/cultivating-the-humanities-social-sciences-initiative/