CUHK Vice-Chancellor's PhD Scholarship Scheme

The CUHK Vice-Chancellor's PhD Scholarship Scheme is a university-level doctoral scholarship at The Chinese University of Hong Kong that complements the Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme. It provides financial support to outstanding full-time PhD students from all countries who are admitted to CUHK and are not HKPFS awardees. The scholarship supports research across all academic disciplines and is awarded on the basis of academic excellence, research potential and the quality of the research proposal.

Research postgraduate studentship (HK$229,200 per annum for the normative period); Vice-Chancellor's Award totalling HK$40,000 paid across the first three years; conference and research-related travel allowance of HK$30,000 for the programme duration.

Open to applicants seeking admission to full-time PhD programmes at CUHK. eligible nationalities include applicants from all countries, including African nations.

Candidates admitted to full-time PhD programmes at CUHK are automatically considered for the scholarship with no separate scholarship application; submit the PhD admission application via the university's admissions/scholarships webpage before the stated deadline.