National Tsing Hua University Scholarship 2027: fully funded study in Taiwan

Taiwanese institutions are advertising more than two thousand scholarship places for the coming academic year, and National Tsing Hua University in Hsinchu is one of the addresses worth knowing about. It funds international students at every level, from a first degree through to a doctorate, and it does not ask you to hold any particular passport.

The date is the part to write down first. The university's form closes on 30 September 2026, for a semester that begins in the spring of 2027. Everything in this article is arranged around that date, because a perfect file that arrives on 1 October is not a file at all.

The scholarship at a glance

What the scholarship pays

The money arrives in two parts. The first is the waiver of tuition and credit fees, which is the larger of the two and the one that decides whether a degree abroad is possible at all. The second is a stipend paid to you while you study, so that being funded means being able to live there rather than only being able to enrol.

Two things about that table. The doctoral figure is published as a range rather than as a number, so plan around the bottom of it and treat anything above as good news. And at master's and bachelor's level the monthly and the annual figures are two ways of describing the same award, not two awards you can add together.

One rule sits above all of it: you may not hold this scholarship at the same time as another one. If you are already funded, or expect to be, deal with that now rather than after an offer arrives.

Who can apply

• You hold a nationality other than Taiwanese. Every other nationality in the world is accepted, which is rarer in scholarship terms than it sounds.
• You are in good physical and mental health.
• You do not hold another scholarship at the same time.
• For a bachelor's programme, you have completed your secondary education.
• For a master's programme, you hold an undergraduate or bachelor's degree.
• For a doctoral programme, you hold a master's degree.
• Your application form is complete and accurate, and it carries every supporting document the university names.

Which colleges take which level

Not every college opens at every level, and this is the first thing to check before you write a single line. Applying to a college that does not run your level is a month of work spent on an answer that was decided before anyone read your study plan.

Hsinchu Teachers College carries a note on both lists. At bachelor's level the Department of Special Education is named separately from the rest of the college. At graduate level the college is listed with Special Education, Physical Education and the Graduate Institute of Mathematics and Science Education. If one of those is your department, read the university's own programme page rather than the summary above.

The documents to prepare

Eight items, and the difficulty is not in any single one of them. It is that four of the eight depend on somebody else: a former university, a registrar, two professors and a passport office all have to move before you can submit.

The one contradiction worth knowing about

The official material says two things that do not sit comfortably together. The document list asks for an English proficiency certificate. The how to apply note says that an acceptance letter, IELTS, GRE and TOEFL are not required.

Both can be true at once if the university accepts a wider range of proof than those three tests: a letter from an institution that taught you in English, for instance, or a school certificate naming the language of instruction. What you should not do is decide the requirement has gone away. Send the strongest proof of English you already hold, and check the page for your own programme before you conclude that you have nothing to send.

How to apply, step by step

Seven weeks separate this article from the closing date. Here is what fits inside them, in the order that keeps the slowest items moving first. Steps one to four are yours; the submission is ours.

1. Today

   Open your PolyGrants file

   Free, about five minutes, and no payment details are asked for. It gives you an adviser and a checklist built from your own answers rather than from a generic list.

2. This week

   Ask for your two recommendation letters

   This is the item that depends on other people, so it is the item to start first. Give each professor the deadline, an early version of your study plan and a reason they can quote.

3. August to September 2026

   Get the diploma and transcript verified

   Official stamps, and translation where your documents are not in English. Your adviser reads the whole set before anyone official does.

4. September 2026

   Write the study plan with your adviser

   In English or in Chinese. It is the one document that is entirely yours, and the one that decides between two applicants whose marks are identical, so your adviser works through it with you rather than around you.

5. Before 30 September 2026

   We submit, once you have approved it

   Your adviser assembles the file, shows you the finished application, and sends it to National Tsing Hua with the scholarship box ticked. Nothing leaves without your approval, and you can see what was sent in your account.

6. After the closing date

   The university decides

   The answer arrives in your PolyGrants account and your adviser explains what it contains. National Tsing Hua publishes its own result dates for each round, and nothing has been announced for spring 2027 yet.

7. Spring 2027

   The semester begins

Applying through PolyGrants

You do not have to work out a foreign university's portal, its deadlines and its document rules on your own, in a language that is not yours. One free PolyGrants application covers this scholarship: you answer the questions once, your adviser turns those answers into the file National Tsing Hua actually asks for, and we submit it.

That preparation is the part that decides most applications, and it happens long before a committee reads anything.

• Your adviser reads your documents before the university does. Most refused files are not weak, they are incomplete: a missing stamp, a transcript that disagrees with the diploma, a date that contradicts another date.
• Your adviser works on the study plan with you. Not instead of you, which a committee notices and which would be dishonest, but by asking the questions that turn a page of ambition into a plan somebody can say yes to.
• PolyGrants is published in fifteen languages and the site opens in yours by itself, so the form, the guidance and every message reach you in a language you actually think in. Your adviser answers on WhatsApp in that language too.
• The same free application keeps working after Taiwan. It is matched against the admission and scholarship opportunities we hold with nearly six hundred partner organisations in seventeen countries, so a no from Hsinchu is not the end of your year.
• You are told honestly what your file is competitive for. Sometimes that is Taiwan. Sometimes it is a country you had not thought about, with a deadline that has not passed yet.

Taiwan is one of the seventeen destination countries on the PolyGrants application, so choosing it is a single tap in the form. Put it at the top if Hsinchu is where you want to be, then add the other countries you would accept. Your adviser works the whole list rather than only the top of it, which is how one application becomes several chances.

Applying from your country

This scholarship is open to every nationality except Taiwanese, which is unusually wide. PolyGrants works most closely with students in the countries below, and each one has a page of its own explaining how its school system, its grades and its documents translate into an international application.

• West and Central Africa: Republic of the Congo, DR Congo, Cameroon, Senegal, Ivory Coast, Gabon, Benin, Togo, Mali, Burkina Faso, Guinea, Niger, Chad, Nigeria and Ghana.
• East and Southern Africa: Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, Ethiopia, Somalia, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Angola, Mozambique, Madagascar and South Africa.
• North Africa: Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Egypt.
• Asia and the Caribbean: India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nepal, the Philippines and Haiti.

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What PolyGrants costs

Nothing, until there is something to pay for. Creating your account is free. Completing the application is free. Having an adviser read your documents, correct them and answer your questions is free. There is no subscription and no deposit, and we never ask for payment details to get started.

The fee, between USD 85 and USD 300, is attached to a positive answer that PolyGrants obtains for you, and it falls due only if you decide to accept that answer. You see the exact amount before you decide, and you have five working days to pay it once it is published. Declining costs nothing, and letting the window close costs nothing.

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Frequently asked questions

PolyGrants is an independent application service. It acts for you, the applicant. It is not affiliated with National Tsing Hua University, is not endorsed by it and does not speak on its behalf; the university's seal appears here because this article is about its scholarship. Every figure, condition and date above is set by the university and can be changed by it, so confirm them on its own admissions pages before you rely on them.