The ITRI Graduate Scholarship Program pays full scholarship for MS graduates to get their PhD in Taiwan at National Chiao Tung U or National Tsing Hua U, particularly in the areas of Information and Communication Technologies, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Optoelectronics and Photonics.

The thesis topic can be aligned with the long-term R&D needs of ITRI and local industry, and a job opportunity at ITRI awaits after PhD is completed. Potential project areas include Wireless Sensor Networks, All-IP Networking System & Services, Broadband Wireless Communications, and WiMAX on High-Speed Rail.

ITRI is Taiwan’s leading applied technology research institute, while NCTU and NTHU are two of its top science and engineering schools.

For full details and application information, please visit the Program Website at this link.

Contact: itriphd[ at ]itri.org.tw

The Taiwan International Graduate Program is a Ph.D. program, started in 2002, by Academia Sinica, the foremost research institution of Taiwan. In cooperation with top universities in Taiwan, Academia Sinica offers advanced, inter-disciplinary Ph.D. Programs, in nine fields that span the natural and physical sciences, as well as computational linguistics. TIGP students will learn in all-English teaching and research environments, and enjoy access to world-class faculty and state-of-the-art research facilities at Academia Sinica and partner universities. All applicants who are admitted to TIGP will receive a fellowship from Academia Sinica. Stipend levels are about USD 11,000 per year, and will be awarded for the first three years.

TIGP Application Announcement for 2009
TIGP is now accepting applications for admission to the 2009 fall semester, and applications are due before 31 March, 2009. TIGP offers the following nine Ph.D. programs:

1. Chemical Biology and Molecular Biophysics
2. Molecular Science and Technology
3. Molecular and Biological Agricultural Sciences
4. Molecular and Cell Biology
5. Bioinformatics
6. Nano Science and Technology
7. Molecular Medicine
8. Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing
9. Earth System Science

No application fee is required. Please send the completed application to:

Admissions Office
Taiwan International Graduate Program
No. 75, Lane 12, Section 2, Academia Road , Nankang District,
Taipei City11529 , Taiwan, R. O. C.

TIGP now also offers the option to apply online for admission to the program. If you wish to learn more about our online application system, please via the website at http://db1n.sinica.edu.tw/textdb/tigp/

For more information, please contact Nancy Yang/ Alice Lee at +886-2-27898050/ +886-2-2789-9696.
Email:nancyy[ at ]gate.sinica.edu.tw / alicelee[ at ]gate.sinica.edu.tw

Closing date: 31 March, 2009

TIGP website: http://tigp.sinica.edu.tw/applying.html