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Awards: PhD. of any engineering, technology or scientific discipline + MBA degree
Begin accepting application: November 1st, 2010
Awards: PhD. of any engineering, technology or scientific discipline + MBA degree
Begin accepting application: November 1st, 2010
Online Application Deadline: January 11th, 2011 for August 2011 intake
Hardcopy Application Recommendation Letters Deadline: January 21th, 2011
Detailed Application and Admissions Time Line: can be found here
Flyer: can be found here
Hardcopy Application Recommendation Letters Deadline: January 21th, 2011
Detailed Application and Admissions Time Line: can be found here
Flyer: can be found here
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The new NUS PhD-MBA (www.phd-mba.nus.edu.sg), Asia’s first PhD-MBA, aims to attract and train talented science and engineering students who have the potential to create and lead technology companies. The programme is jointly hosted by the NUS Graduate School for Integrative Sciences and Engineering and the NUS Business School. Students develop their research skills by doing a PhD in any scientific or engineering discipline, choosing among a wide range of subjects, projects, departments and advisers. Concurrently they develop their business acumen by working on an MBA. Internships in technology companies provide practical technology business training.
Students in the NUS programme work on a PhD in science, engineering or medicine and an MBA concurrently. Successful applicants will be offered a scholarship covering the tuition fees for both the PhD and the MBA. They will also be offered a generous stipend for living expenses of S$ 3,200 per month (tax free), as well as allowances for books, a computer and for conferences. In the 1st year students typically do course work related to their PhD, completing 6-8 courses for 24 to 32 modular credits (MCs). They can choose among a wide variety of courses across the NUS campus with very few restrictions. In the 2nd year, students complete a first internship lasting around 3 months, for example in the summer between year 1 and year 2. Students also finish course work and sit their PhD Qualifying Examination, as well as selecting two advisers, one of whom should be from NGS, the other may be in any NUS department or school, or even external to NUS. Students then start their MBA in the 1st semster of the 3rd year of study. They do this as full time students in the NUS Business School, along with all other full-time MBA students. From the 2nd semster of the 3rd year onward, students continue their PhD research full-time and finish course work related to their MBA in part time mode. The course load for the MBA is somewhat reduced for PhD-MBA students, enabling them to finish the degree requirements in good time. A second internship is taken at any time during years 3 to 5. Upon successful defense of a thesis and the fullfillment of the requirements for the MBA, students are conferred a PhD and an MBA degree. Students may graduate with only a PhD, but not with only an MBA. The PhD-MBA is designed to take students between 4 and 5 years to complete.
Students in the NUS programme work on a PhD in science, engineering or medicine and an MBA concurrently. Successful applicants will be offered a scholarship covering the tuition fees for both the PhD and the MBA. They will also be offered a generous stipend for living expenses of S$ 3,200 per month (tax free), as well as allowances for books, a computer and for conferences. In the 1st year students typically do course work related to their PhD, completing 6-8 courses for 24 to 32 modular credits (MCs). They can choose among a wide variety of courses across the NUS campus with very few restrictions. In the 2nd year, students complete a first internship lasting around 3 months, for example in the summer between year 1 and year 2. Students also finish course work and sit their PhD Qualifying Examination, as well as selecting two advisers, one of whom should be from NGS, the other may be in any NUS department or school, or even external to NUS. Students then start their MBA in the 1st semster of the 3rd year of study. They do this as full time students in the NUS Business School, along with all other full-time MBA students. From the 2nd semster of the 3rd year onward, students continue their PhD research full-time and finish course work related to their MBA in part time mode. The course load for the MBA is somewhat reduced for PhD-MBA students, enabling them to finish the degree requirements in good time. A second internship is taken at any time during years 3 to 5. Upon successful defense of a thesis and the fullfillment of the requirements for the MBA, students are conferred a PhD and an MBA degree. Students may graduate with only a PhD, but not with only an MBA. The PhD-MBA is designed to take students between 4 and 5 years to complete.
Provision of the award
- Concurrent PhD and MBA degrees in a short period of time.
- Choice of any subject for the PhD, from the life and physical sciences to engineering and IT.
- Generous monthly stipend of S$ 3,200 (tax free).
- Full scholarship covering tuition fees for the PhD.
- Full MBA tuition fee waiver.
- No bond.
Eligibility Criteria
A keen, open and independent mind, common sense, appreciation for the importance of science, technology and business, the ability to act and get things done alone and in a team are hallmarks of students suitable for the NUS PhD-MBA. Valuing the wide range of backgrounds of potential students, factors that the recruitment committee will weigh when making decisions on admissions into the NUS PhD-MBA are: academic records, standardized test scores, research experience, startup and industry experience, completed internships, interest in and involvement in entrepreneurship and business, as well as good English.
Women and men of all nationalities, with an undergraduate or Masters degree in any scientific, engineering, maths or IT discipline, previously awarded or expected in 2011, are eligible to apply.
Application Requirement Information
- Academic Transcript
- Recommendation Letters (two academic required, one industrial optional)
- PhD-MBA admissions essay
- Statement of purpose
- Research proposal
- Application form
- Declaration form
- Resume
- TOEFL (Min. of 100 (IBT))/IELTS (Min. of 6.5) (Compulsory if applicants whose native tongue or medium of university instruction is not English)
- GRE general score
- GMAT (for shortlisted candidates)
- Publication(s)
Instruction on how to apply for PhD-MBA in NGS can be found here.
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