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Graduate Office
Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore 117543
Singapore
Email: dbsbox6@nus.edu.sg

Admission 

We follow the admission guidelines established by the university. Generally students are admitted with NUS Research Scholarship (RS). Research Scholars will be given a monthly stipend and a full tuition fee subsidy. For Research Scholars in a Ph.D. programme, monthly stipends for Singapore citizens, Singapore Permanent Residents and foreigners are currently S$2,300, S$2,200 and S$2,000, respectively. After Ph.D qualifying examination, the stipends are topped up with additional S$500. The minimum requirement for admission with Research Scholarship is a B.Sc. degree (equivalent four years of undergraduate programme).

Local students - GRE requirement is waived for students graduating with honours degree from NUS or NTU

Overseas students should provide scores of GRE (minimal requirements: verbal, 500; quantitative, 700; written analytical, 3.5) or GATE (minimum 90 percentile). Applicants who did not have their earlier education in the English language should also provide TOEFL scores (minimal requirements: internet-based test, 85; paper-based test, 580; computer-based test, 260).  

For admission without Research Scholarship or self-financed students, students with NUS degree should have an Honors degree of minimum 2nd lower division. For students with an International degree, certificates of financial support are required.  

Shortlisted foreign candidates are generally required for interview either by telephone or in their home countries.  

For application, please contact:
Graduate Office
Department of Biological Sciences
National University of Singapore
Singapore
Email: dbsbox6@nus.edu.sg

There are two intakes to our graduate program, following the practice at the Faculty of Science. Application deadlines are:

updated: Sept 2009