Ministry of Education Taiwan Scholarship and Huayu Enrichment Scholarship (HES) 2020

The Taiwan Scholarship Program is designated to encourage promising students from foreign countries to pursue their degree studies in Taiwan and to enhance educational and academic exchange. For those students interested in studying in Taiwan, they may choose to pursue their degree with English as the primary language of instruction or in Chinese. There are some popular degree programs in Taiwan. Such programs include but are not limited to the following:

Global MBA at National Taiwan University (NTU);
International Studies (IMPIS) at Chengchi University (NCCU);
Int’l Health Program at Yang-Ming University;
Int’l Ph.D. Program of Green Energy at Chiao Tung University (NCTU) ;
Information Systems and Applications at Tsing Hua University (NTHU);
Teaching Chinese as a Second Language at National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU).

To encourage international students and individuals to undertake Mandarin Chinese language study in Taiwan, the Ministry of Education established the Huayu Enrichment Scholarship (HES) Program in 2005, providing an excellent opportunity for international students to enhance their language skills and to gain new cultural experiences by being immersed in a Chinese-speaking environment. Recipients will be granted scholarships award periods of 12, 9, 6, 3 months starting from September 2020 to August 31, 2021; or 2-month summer program in June/July or July/August of 2020.

In the year of 2020, 3 Taiwan Scholarships and 10 one-year HES will be exclusively offered to US citizens in the Southwestern areas, including Southern California, Arizona, New Mexico, Hawaii and Guam. All required application materials must be submitted to our office before March 31, 2020. For more detailed information about these two scholarship programs, please visit our renewed scholarship portal at http://scholarships.tw.org.