2025 Taiwan Scholarship Application Guidelines
- Purpose:
The Taiwan Scholarship Program is designated to encourage promising students from United States to pursue their degree in Taiwan to familiarize themselves with the academic environment in Taiwan and promote communication, understanding and friendship between Taiwan and Kuwait.
- Award Value:
1. Tuition fees: The MOE will provide each recipient with tuition fees amounting up to NTD$40,000 per semester. If the total amount of the fees should exceed NTD$40,000, the remainder of the costs shall be the recipient’s responsibility. Tuition and academic fees do not include administration fees, thesis advising fees, insurance premiums, accommodation or internet access fees, all of which shall be paid by the recipients.
2. Subsistence allowance:
— Undergraduate studies: a monthly stipend of NTD15,000
— Postgraduate studies (Master, Doctoral): a monthly stipend of NTD20,000
(Exchange rate approximately 1 KWD = 106 NTD)
- Duration of Scholarships:
The maximum period of each scholarship is four years for undergraduate programs, two years for master programs, and four years for doctorate programs. The maximum total period that any one person may hold a Taiwan Scholarship is five years.
- Eligibility: An applicant must meet all of the following criteria
1. Be a Kuwaiti citizen.
2. Be a high school graduate or above, have excellent academic performance in his/her most recent formal educational study experience, be of good moral character, and not have any criminal records.
A person in any of the following categories is ineligible to apply:
1. An R.O.C. national or an overseas Chinese student.
2. A person who already has and is continuing to maintain student status at any university/college in Taiwan or who has already registered to begin studies at such a university/college. This restriction does not apply to a student who will be graduating after completing a degree that year. They may apply for a Taiwan Scholarship to pursue a higher degree.
3. A person who has already studied in Taiwan for a degree at the same level as the one in which they currently intend to enroll.
4. An exchange student or dual/joint degree student who has been admitted to a university/college in Taiwan in accordance with an academic cooperation agreement between that university/college and an overseas university/college.
5. A person who has already been a Taiwan Scholarship recipient for a total of five years.
6. A person who has ever previously had their Taiwan Scholarship or MOE Huayu Enrichment Scholarship revoked.
7. A person who has received any other scholarship or subsidy from any Taiwan government institution (organization) or any education institution in Taiwan, apart from any subsidies provided for a Taiwan Scholarship recipient by their university/college to cover the outstanding amount if the total amount of their tuition and other fees exceeds the scholarship limit.
8. A person who has a Taiwan Alien Permanent Resident Certificate.
- Application Procedure:
— Where to apply?
Kuwaiti citizens with official residency please submit your application to:
Taipei Commercial Representative Office in Kuwait
— What materials are needed?
1. A completed and signed application form.
2. One photocopy of passport or other nationality certificates.
3. One photocopy of the highest-level diploma.
4. One copy of an official complete grade transcript, in one of the following forms:
— authenticated by an overseas Representative Office / Embassy of Taiwan R.O.C.
— or be sealed and delivered by the awarding institutions.
5. A photocopy of admission application materials to universities/colleges in Taiwan (e.g., photocopies of application fee remittance, application form, receipt of application from universities/colleges, email confirmation).
6. Two recommendation letters, signed and sealed in envelopes by the recommenders themselves, can be sent in the applicant’s package along with all other documents or mailed directly to our office.
7. A complete and signed Taiwan Scholarship Terms of Agreement.
8. A copy of a language proficiency certificate:
(1) For applicants to undertake a program not completely taught in English: A copy of the Test of Chinese as a Foreign Language (TOCFL) test score report or certificate of Level 3 or above shall be submitted.
(2) For applicants to undertake a program completely taught in English, the TOCFL requirement may be exempted. However, applicants who submit TOCFL certificate or test score report will be considered with priority.
— When to apply?
The application period is from February 1st through March 31st, 2025. Application documents (including reference letters) must be completely mailed to TECRO by March 31st, 2025, by post mark. Applications after March 31st, 2025, will not be accepted.
*Applications must be completed in full. All incomplete applications will not be considered, and persons submitting incomplete applications will be withdrawn from the selection process without further notice.
- Related files:
MOE Taiwan Scholarship Application Form
MOE Taiwan Scholarship Program Terms of Agreement
A list of university, college offering degree programs taught in English(2025.01.03)
