Taiwan and Harvard University have inked an agreement to send five Taiwanese doctoral students to the US institution on full scholarships every year over the next five years, the Ministry of Education said on Monday.
Starting from the next academic year, both sides are to jointly select five five Taiwanese doctoral students to attend the Kenneth C Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences on full scholarships, the ministry said in a news release.
The scholarships are to be for up to four years of study, provided by the ministry and Harvard, it said.
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The agreement is one of many signed with the school in past years, including one in 2011 with Taiwan’s Elite University Alliance on doctoral studies and a research partnership in 2020 with Harvard’s Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, the ministry said.
Taiwan and the US have long maintained robust educational exchange, with about 3,100 US students studying in Taiwan and 22,000 Taiwanese students studying in the US every year, said Nicole Lee (李彥儀), interim director of the ministry’s Department of International and Cross-strait Education.
Of the Taiwanese students, 110 are attending Harvard, she said.
Taiwan now has PhD scholarship agreements with 18 schools in the top 100 worldwide, the ministry said.
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