Application Opens on 1 September 2024
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Eligibility & Conditions

Eligibility
Conditions

Top Honors from your University

Some reference scores as a guide:
CAP1 ≥ 4.00/5 or its equivalent (≥80%), or GPA2 ≥3.2/4 in relevant disciplines

Scholarship dependent on academic performance

CAP1 ≥ 3.8 every semester

1Cumulative Average Points   2Grade Point Average

Masters Degree

  • If you are currently pursuing a Masters Degree, you must be officially conferred with the Masters Degree before matriculating at NGS.
  • If you have submitted your Thesis but NOT conferred with Masters degree, admission to NGS will be deferred until your Masters degree is officially awarded.
  • You will not be allowed to exit with Masters Degree.

Bonds
If you are under any bond, you must declare in the application and seek to defer the bond before commencing graduate program at NGS.

You will also not be eligible for the President’s Graduate Fellowship (PGF).

Application Procedure

What You Need to Know

  • In “Search for Programme”, look for
    • “Faculty”: “NUS Graduate School” (regardless of the faculty affiliation of your Proposed Supervisor and/or of your interested fields of research 
    • “Programme”: “Doctor of Philosophy in Integrative Sciences and Engineering”
  • Applications with COMPLETE information in GDA3 and uploaded documents will be given priority and processed faster 
  • Only COMPLETED (with all required documents) application(s) received BEFORE the application deadline will be processed.
  • Applications received AFTER the application deadline may be processed for the next available intake, which may not be the upcoming intake in NUS academic calendar. 
  • Incomplete applications will NOT be processed.
  • Each applicant should nominate a minimum of 2, but not more than 4, Referees. The “NUS Graduate Admissions System (GDA3)” will generate emails to your nominated Referees to request completion of an online Referee Report template, which will have a validity period of 14 days.

Submission Deadline


August 2025 Intake

Application
opens : 01 September 2024
closes: 15 December 2024

You Will Need to Upload:

Checklist of Documents To Be Uploaded in PDF:

  • Statement of Purpose*
  • Research Proposal*
  • Academic Transcripts and Certificates*
  • Evidence of Academic Awards & Honours
  • Publications
  • GRE (STRONGLY ENCOURAGED) & TOEFL/IELTS (COMPULSORY for applicants whose language of UNDERgraduate instruction is not English)
  • Abstract of Independent Research
  • Personal CV
  • Any other supporting documents that may enhance your application​
  • Color Scan of Singapore NRIC* (Singaporean and Singapore PR) / Passport (International Applicants); not compulsory for international applicants without passport at the point of application submission

*Compulsory

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NUS Graduate Admissions System (GDA3)