[Singapore] National Infocomm Scholarship (NIS)
Application Deadline : 15 March 2012.
Introduction
With infocomm, the future is a mere touch away. And with the National Infocomm Scholarship (NIS), your dream of shaping and leading it becomes possible. To develop your abilities to their fullest potential, the NIS provides you with both the prestige of a government scholarship and valuable private sector work exposure, through a partnership with the top names in the industry.
The National Infocomm Scholarship offers you more than one route to becoming an infocomm leader. If you seek a scholarship that offers you greater choice, scope and flexibility during your course of study, NIS is the one for you. With 3 scholarship categories, each brimming with possibilities, you can carve a unique and exciting route to becoming an infocomm leader.
Programme Description
With the National Infocomm Scholarship, there’s more than one route to becoming an infocomm leader.
If you seek a scholarship that offers you greater choice, scope and flexibility during your course of study, NIS is the one for you. With 3 scholarship categories, each brimming with possibilities, you can carve a unique and exciting route to becoming an infocomm leader.
The 3 scholarship categories are:
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Full Scholarship: Enables you to pursue a Bachelor degree at top overseas or local universities. Scholars with outstanding results will be further sponsored for a one year local post-graduate study.*
(*application for postgraduate study is subject to the approval of the participating organisation and IDA) -
Partial Scholarship: Awarded to outstanding 3rd year local undergraduates pursuing an infocomm related degree at the National University of Singapore (NUS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT), Singapore Management University (SMU) or Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) and moving on to their final year of studies.
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Flagship Infocomm Master’s Scholarship: Awarded to outstanding "A" level and Polytechnic students who will pursue one of the Flagship Infocomm Master’s programmes below:
a. SMU-Carnegie Mellon Fast Track Programme;
b. NUS-Carnegie Mellon Entertainment Technology Centre (ETC) Programme in Interactive Digital Media;
c. NTU-Georgia Institute of Technology Integrated Programmes;
d. NUS and Brown University (BROWN) in Computational Biology; or
e. NUS and Cambridge University in Information System and Management.
View more details on the Flagship Infocomm Master’s Scholarship programmes.
All the above scholarships come with up to 6 months of overseas work attachment with the sponsoring organisation.
