President's Science Scholarship Awarded to STEM Graduate Students... 2 Million KRW Monthly for Doctoral Candidates
The Ministry of Science and ICT announced on the 30th that it will recruit 120 recipients for the newly established Presidential Science Scholarship for STEM graduate students.
The application period is from February 13 to 26, and after document screening in mid-March and in-depth interviews at the end of March, the final selected candidates will be announced around the end of March.
The Presidential Science Scholarship previously provided national scholarships to outstanding STEM undergraduates, but from this year, the scope has been expanded to graduate students. This year, the national scholarship for STEM graduate students will select approximately 70 doctoral candidates and 50 master's candidates. At least 20 students will be selected from non-metropolitan area graduate schools (excluding the four major science and technology institutes and Pohang University of Science and Technology).
Selected doctoral candidates will receive 2 million KRW per month for up to 8 semesters, and master's candidates will receive 1.5 million KRW per month for 4 semesters. Recipients can receive this scholarship concurrently even if they receive other scholarships or government/private support such as research and development (R&D) project participation allowances.
The selection fields for scholarship recipients will apply 17 fields classified according to the academic discipline classification system of the Basic Research Division of the National Research Foundation of Korea, and the selection evaluation committee will utilize a pool of experts in each of the 17 fields to ensure expertise and fairness.
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The Ministry of Science and ICT stated that it will directly select candidates based on the individual capabilities of applicants rather than their advisors, and will diversify support policies for STEM graduate students by introducing a national scholarship that does not require any reciprocal obligations such as additional project participation.
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