National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (NTUST) staff are visiting Indonesia and Vietnam to recruit students under a scholarship program launched in partnership with Taiwanese firms.
NTUST College of Engineering Vice Dean Wang Chen-hao (王丞浩) is leading a delegation on a visit to Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, the University of Indonesia and the Sepuluh Nopember Institute of Technology that started on Monday and ends on Friday, NTUST said in a news release yesterday.
NTUST College of Engineering assistant professors Duc-Thang Vo, originally from Vietnam, and Iman Adipurnama, originally from Indonesia, would be part of the delegation, NTUST said.
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Vo said Taiwan has a competitive academic and employment environment, adding that he hopes to use his own experience of studying at NTUST to encourage more foreign students to study and work in Taiwan.
The group would focus on conducting academic exchanges and discussing exchange student programs with the Southeast Asian institutions, as well as interviewing students who have applied for master’s programs in Taiwan and the scholarship program, Wang said.
Outstanding students would be recommended to companies that join the scholarship program for further interviews, he said.
NTUST said it is partnering with businesses for the first time, adding that they include firms such as Chyi Ding Technologies Co, Trust Creating Construction and Cooler Master Co.
Chosen students would study at NTUST for two years and work for their sponsor company for another two afterward, it said.
The sponsor would pay for tuition and miscellaneous fees, as well as NT$12,000 per month for living expenses while the student is at university, which would amount to a total of NT$518,000 per student, it said.
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co has also asked NTUST to help select one to three students, to whom it would offer a monthly scholarship of NT$15,000 for up to two years, it said.
To be eligible for any of the scholarships, applicants must have received a bachelor’s degree in science or engineering from a prestigious university in Southeast Asia, NTUST said.
Applications should be submitted with English and Chinese-language proficiency certificates, it said, adding that scholarship recipients would be required to learn Mandarin in Taiwan.
During the summer vacation after their first year of study, the students should work as interns for their sponsors, it said.
To complete the two years of study, students must get above-average grades, pass the Test of Chinese as a Foreign Language Level 1 and Level 2 and write a thesis, it said.
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