Taiwan International Graduate Program (TIGP) is now accepting applications for admission to the 2010 fall semester, and applications are due before 31 March, 2010.

The Taiwan International Graduate Program is a Ph.D. program, started in 2002, 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. Stipend levels are about USD 11,000 per year, and will be awarded for the first three years.

TIGP offers the following nine Ph.D. programs:

1. Chemical Biology and Molecular Biophysics
2. Molecular Science and Technology
3. Molecular and Biological Agricultural Sciences
4. Molecular and Cell Biology (to be open soon)
5. Bioinformatics
6. Nano Science and Technology
7. Molecular Medicine
8. Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing
9. Earth System Science

No application fee is required. Please send the completed application to:

Admissions Office
Taiwan International Graduate Program
No. 75, Lane 12, Section 2, Academia Road
Nankang District
Taipei City 11529
Taiwan, R. O. C.

TIGP now also offers the option to apply online for admission to the program. If you wish to learn more about our online application system, please via the website at http://db1n.sinica.edu.tw/textdb/tigp

For more information, please contact Nancy Yang/ Alice Lee at +886-2-27898050/ +886-2-2789- 9696. Email: nancyy@gate.sinica.edu.tw / alicelee@gate.sinica.edu.tw. TIGP website: http://tigp.sinica.edu.tw/applying.html