The HKPhD Fellowship Scheme
The Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme, established by the Hong Kong Research Grants Council (RGC) in 2009, aims at attracting the best and brightest students from all over the world to pursue their PhD studies in Hong Kong. The Fellowship provides a monthly stipend of HK$25,800 (approximately US$3,300) and a conference travel allowance of HK$12,900 (approximately US$1,655) per year for the awardees for a maximum period of three years. For awardees with a normative study period of 4 years, CUHK will offer the award at the same level for the fourth year. In addition to the monthly stipend and annual conference travel allowance, HKPFS awardees may apply for various scholarships offered by the University. Usually, the RGC will award about 250 PhD Fellowships each year. Details please refer to https://cerg1.ugc.edu.hk/hkpfs/index.html
The HKPhD Fellowship Summer Workshop
- The online summer workshop 2020 is organized for potential applicants to CUHK Engineering PhD programmes in the 2021-2022 intake
- We welcome undergraduate or master students in their penultimate year of study to apply
- Selection will be based on academic excellence, research ability and potential
- Every participant of the workshop will have the PhD admission interview opportunity on the last two days of the workshop. The first batch of PhD offers will be made shortly after the workshop
What the Workshop Offers
- Online Research seminars
- Online Student poster demonstration
- Videos of lab introduction
- Individual meetings with professors
- virtual Campus tour
- Admission interviews
Selection Criteria of the HKPhD Fellowship Scheme
While academic excellence is of prime consideration, the Review Panels will take into account, but is not limited to, the six yardsticks below for the selection of candidates:
- Academic excellence;
- Research ability and potential;
- Cultural diversity;
- Institutional support;
- Communication, and interpersonal skills; and
- Leadership abilities, and societal responsibility
About Faculty of Engineering
The seed of CUHK Engineering was planted by Prof. Sir Charles K. Kao, Nobel Laureate in Physics and Father of Fiber Optics. He initially established the Department of Electronics in 1970. The Faculty was inaugurated in 1991 by Professor Kao. Today, it has grown into a comprehensive Faculty with 6 academic departments, namely, Biomedical Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering, Mechanical and Automation Engineering,
Systems Engineering and Engineering Management.
about cuhk
Founded in 1963, the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) is comprehensive research university with a mission to combine tradition with modernity. We aim at cultivating quality graduates to serve the increasingly sophisticated needs of society and making contributions to the pool of human knowledge through research. We have a unique college system and a 137.3-hectare scenic campus. The majority of our teaching staff are recruited from all over the world. Our current enrolment of postgraduate students exceeds 12,000, and includes a substantial portion of non-local students from around the world.