2021 MOE Taiwan Scholarship Program

2021 MOE Taiwan Scholarship Program

Application Deadline: March 31st, 2021.

Taiwan Scholarship is executed in accordance with the “Taiwan Scholarship Program Guidelines” of the Ministry of Education (MOE) of the Republic of China (Taiwan) to encourage international students (excluding students from Mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau) to undertake degree studies in Taiwan.

The MOE awards outstanding international students the Scholarship to undertake both undergraduate and graduate studies in Taiwan.

The MOE Taiwan Scholarship Program provides the following for each scholarship recipient:

(1) Tuition and miscellaneous expenses (i.e. the course-credit fees, and miscellaneous basic study-related fees): The MOE will pay up to NTD 40,000 each semester for each recipient’s approved tuition and miscellaneous expenses. If these exceed a total amount of NTD40,000, the remaining amount must be paid to the university/college by the student. The “miscellaneous expenses” do not include any of the following: administration fees, thesis supervision fees, insurance premiums, accommodation, or internet access. These are all the responsibility of the scholarship recipient.

(2) Living allowance: The MOE provides each recipient undertaking university undergraduate studies a monthly stipend of NTD15,000; it provides each recipient undertaking a master’s degree or doctorate studies a monthly stipend of NTD20,000..

Duration of Scholarships:

The maximum period of each scholarship is four years for undergraduate programs, two years for master’s programs, and four years for doctorate programs. The maximum length of the total awards for each recipient undertaking a combination of studies is five years.

Annual award periods begin on September 1st, 2021 and continue until August 31st, 2022. Recipients must arrive in Taiwan and enroll at their admitting universities / colleges within this period unless delays have been approved by the relevant institutions and the MOE. If recipients fail to arrive in Taiwan for registration during this period, their award will be revoked with no deferrals.

Subsistence allowances begin from the month of the recipients’ registration at the universities / colleges and end when the award period expires or upon the recipients’ graduation, withdrawal, suspension, expulsion, or revocation of the scholarship.

Eligibility:

Applicants must be Finnish citizens with an excellent academic record, and be of good moral characters.

Applicants are ineligible if they meet the following criteria:
- Are R.O.C. nationals or overseas Chinese students.
- Are already registered or have obtained student status at any university /
college in Taiwan. Graduating students pursuing further studies are exempt
from this rule.
- Have already studied in Taiwan for the same level of degree as the one in
which they currently intend to enroll.
- Are exchange students or dual / joint degree students admitted in accordance
with academic cooperation agreements between local universities / colleges
and international universities /colleges.
- Have been a recipient of the Taiwan Scholarship for over a total of five years.
- Have had, in the past, their Taiwan Scholarship or Huayu Enrichment
Scholarship revoked by the MOE.
- Are recipients of any other scholarship or subsidy offered by the Taiwan
government or education institutions in Taiwan. This excludes subsidies
offered by universities / colleges to cover tuition and other fees exceeding the
scholarship limit.

Applicants should send the following documents by 31 March 2021 to the Taipei Representative Office in Finland. Failure to include any of these documents renders the application incomplete, and the applicant will not be further considered for the scholarship, without further notice:

Required Documents:
A complete scholarship application includes the following materials:
1. Completed Taiwan Scholarship Application Form (application form).
2. A copy of the applicant’s passport or other nationality certificates.
3. A copy of the highest degree and academic transcripts. If issued by
international educational institutions, these documents must be authenticated
by an overseas Representative Office or be sealed and delivered by the
awarding institutions. Documents in a language other than Chinese or English
must be translated into Chinese or English and the translated documents must
be authenticated.
4. Supporting proof of application/admission materials issued by a
university/college in Taiwan (e.g. photocopy of completed application form of
a university/college in Taiwan).

5. Photocopy of a certificate of the acceptable levels of Chinese language
proficiency, if Mandarin will be used for instruction in classes. LEP applicants
do not need to submit the document.
6. Two letters of reference signed and sealed in envelopes (i.e. from the rectors,
professors, or supervisors). Photocopy and email submissions of letters of
recommendation will not be considered.
7.Terms of Agreement
8. A copy of a language proficiency certificate. The individual representative
office shall comply with the following provisions:
A. For applications to not all-English programs:
(a) If the Test of Chinese as a Foreign Language (TOCFL) has taken effect in
the country, a copy of the test results or certificate of Level 3 or above shall
be submitted. Other test results or documents shall not be accepted.
(b) If the TOCFL has not taken effect in the country and if a copy of results org