The Taiwan International Graduate Program is a PhD program, started in 2002, established 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. Fellowship will be granted for applicants who receive admission. The stipend levels are about US$ 11,000 per year. Additionally, the support will be extended to two more years for those students who perform well academically.
For more details, please visit the TIGP website at: http://tigp.sinica.edu.tw/
TIGP offers nine PhD programs:
- Chemical Biology and Molecular Biophysics http://www.sinica.edu.tw/~tigpcbmb/
- Molecular Science and Technology http://tigp.iams.sinica.edu.tw/MST.htm
- Molecular and Biological Agricultural Sciences http://www.sinica.edu.tw/~ibawww/mba/mba.html
- Molecular and Cell Biology http://www.imb.sinica.edu.tw/mcb/
- Bioinformatics http://tigpbp.iis.sinica.edu.tw/
- Nano Science and Technology http://www.phys.sinica.edu.tw/TIGP-NANO/
- Molecular Medicine http://www.ibms.sinica.edu.tw/mmp/
- Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing (This program will not admit new students in 2011.)
- Earth System Science http://www.rcec.sinica.edu.tw/TIGP-ESS
No application fee is required.