The Taiwan International Graduate Program is a Ph.D. program, started in 2002, established by Academia Sinica, the foremost research institution of Taiwan. In cooperation with top universities in Taiwan, Academia Sinica offers advanced, inter-disciplinary Ph.D. Programs in nine fields that span the natural and physical sciences, as well as computational linguistics. TIGP students will learn in all-English teaching and research environments, and enjoy access to world-class faculty and state-of-the-art research facilities at Academia Sinica and partner universities. All applicants who are admitted to TIGP will receive a fellowship from Academia Sinica. Fellowship will be granted for applicants who receive admission. The stipend levels are about US$ 11,000 per year. Additionally, the support will be extended to two more years for those students who perform well academically.

For more details, please visit the TIGP website at: http://tigp.sinica.edu.tw

TIGP offers nine Ph.D. programs in 2011:

1. Chemical Biology and Molecular Biophysics www.sinica.edu.tw/~tigpcbmb
2. Molecular Science and Technology http://tigp.iams.sinica.edu.tw/MST.htm
3. Molecular and Biological Agricultural Sciences www.sinica.edu.tw/~ibawww/mba/mba.html
4. Molecular and Cell Biology www.imb.sinica.edu.tw/mcb
5. Bioinformatics http://tigpbp.iis.sinica.edu.tw
6. Nano Science and Technology www.phys.sinica.edu.tw/TIGP-NANO
7. Molecular Medicine www.ibms.sinica.edu.tw/mmp
8. Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing
(This program will not admit new students in 2011.)
9. Earth System Science www.rcec.sinica.edu.tw/TIGP-ESS

No application fee is required.

For more information, please contact the TIGP Admissions Office:

Ms. Nancy Yang/ Alice Lee at 886-2-2789-8050/ 2789-9696 (between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. Taiwan time, Monday through Friday), fax to 886-2-2785-8944, or send an e-mail message to tigp@gate.sinica.edu.tw

TIGP website: http://tigp.sinica.edu.tw/applying.html

Get detailed info from the following document :
http://tigp.sinica.edu.tw/formsEtPubs/tigpProgram_application/TIGP_application_form.pdf