"The Intel Penang Design Center (PDC), established in 1992, is one of the largest and most advanced Intel Design and Development centers in the Asia Pacific region. Intel PDC grants R&D scholarships every year to outstanding students from local universities throughout the country. "

Potential Electrical and Electronics, Mechatronics, or Computer Engineering students should pay attention to this excellent opportunity!

Opening Date: 1 July 2010

Closing Date: 31 August 2010
Official webpage

Check out this postgraduate architecture scholarship at Kent's University, UK. It's open to international students such as yourself.

http://www.kent.ac.uk/scholarships/postgra...chitecture.html

If you search more on the internet, I'm sure you will uncover more UK universities offering similiar financial aid.

This post has been edited by chalach: Feb 10 2010, 05:31 PM

It would appear so. Most universities award scholarships for their own programmes. If you need general, non university-specific scholarships, try out private/government/foundation scholarships. Those are harder to come by though - spend some time to research on google and you might get some.

Till then, I will post something up if I manage to find any.

Here's a scholarship covering many construction fields including architecture studies in local universities only - something worth noting even if you're aiming for overseas.
It's offered by construction firm Titijaya Group.

Besides architecture, the scholarship covers many other construction-related areas such as C. Engineering, Surveying, Business/marketing, property, etc.

Check out the scholarship details here.

Depends on where you want to study though. There's one currently for liberal art studies at Lingnan University Hong Kong.

http://www.questle.com/index.php?option=co...54:scholarships

For more locally-provided scholarships, the floodgates will be opened after the release of SPM results. That's just a couple more weeks away, so stay tuned to more scholarships then.

Usually scholarships provided by learning institutions for studies in their own programmes are the ones covering only tuition fees - a marketing strategy to let tell the world that they are providing scholarships yet reducing costs by still charging invisible administrative/resource fees. These are usually less competitive because you are only competing against students applying to the same school.

The 'true' waivers you referred to are more commonly found in scholarships given by external/private sources such as charitable and philanthropy foundations. Ocassionaly, there are also multinational corporations using bonded scholarships as a means to secure the best brains in the market. The funding usually go all out to cover travelling costs, all learning expenses, books purchasing, and/or living expenses. These are usually highly competitive and calls for true merit since only the cream will be selected regardless of which institution applied.

Some similar scholarships which are open at the moment:

Cambridge Tun Suffian Scholarships (Law)
Panasonic Scholarships (Science/technology courses)
MEASAT Scholarships (Aerospace)
Fujitsu Scholarships
Intel Scholarships

Some of them are postgraduate-only, please take note.

Thanks.

This post has been edited by chalach: Feb 27 2010, 12:38 AM

Singapore NTU has opened their scholarship program.

http://www.questle.com/index.php?option=co...54:scholarships

This post has been edited by chalach: Mar 1 2010, 12:05 AM

3.25 is not too bad, if you're looking at accounting courses. Admission should not be a problem, but if you're looking at full scholarships, it may be slightly more difficult to find one.

Have you considered KTAR/UTAR for accounting? From a costing point of view, as they offer a solid course for the buck as opposed to other private U such sa Sunway or Monash.

I would suggest looking into the university's own scholarships first (Monash scholarship or Sunway scholarship). If you do not qualify, the only other way is to go for loans.

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Added on March 3, 2010, 9:40 amOn another note, those who are interested to study and Taiwan can now apply one of these 3 scholarships provided by the Taiwan government:
Taiwan Scholarship Program
TaiwanICDF Scholarships
Mandarin Enrichment Program (for those who want to learn/improve mandarin)

This post has been edited by chalach: Mar 3 2010, 09:40 AM

What kind of engineering?
Construction-related:
Gamuda Scholarships
MBAM Scholarships
Titijaya scholarships


As far as I know, PTPTN charges 1% for their loans. I'm not sure if it's the lowest, but worth a shot since PTPTN coversw most IPTA and IPTS courses.

As for banks. let me look up some information and get back here if I find any.


What are your results? The One cademy does not provide any internal scholarships, so you will have to look at external sources.

You can try out:

Bank Negara Scholarships
Khazanah Scholarships (local)
Khazanah Scholarships (overseas uni)

Hurry for the BNM scholarship though - their application window is only one week and it closes this Sunday.

As far as I know, the Petronas scholarship is not open yet, but will be anytime soon (since SPM results are out).
Do try out this link everyday as it's used for online applications in the past years
http://esu-spmtrial.petronas.com.my/


Those are considered good results and will qualify her for almost any scholarship - the rest depends on the interview and/or extra curricular performance.


I've encountered people with 5As and still getting the JPA scholarship - though I do think that was an isolated case. For 8A,s it's neither stellar nor poor - so I think it really comes down to how you are going to wow them, wither with exceptional co-curricular track record or during the interview.

I have encountered a couple of Japanese scholarships right here:
Monbukagakusho (undergrad)

The rest are for postgraduate only, if you are still interested:
Fujitsu
Japan/World Bank

I have no concrete links to Korean scholarships at the moment but you could always give this website a shot
Study in Korea

You might wanna consider other countries such as Taiwan or India as well.

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Some latest scholarships

ASEAN Pre-University Scholarship

National Precision Engineering Scholarship (Nanyang Polytechnic Singapore)

Indonesian ICT Postgrad studies

This post has been edited by chalach: Mar 12 2010, 09:57 AM

JPA is not only for straight A students. If you have somewhat of an interesting co-curricular portfolio, there might be a chance for you to get picked for the interview.

At the moment, give the Kuok Foundation Scholarships a try:
http://www.questle.com/index.php?option=co...hips&Itemid=146

It depends on the awarding institution, but for high profile scholarships such as ASEAN/JPA, most of the qualified applicants are already at the peak in terms of academic performance, so it mostly comes down to co-curricular/interview performance. Quite important, I must say.

As far as I know, it is only available for undergraduate (first degree) studies.

Most of the time yes, you do have to provide certified copies of your co-curricular certs. Only a minority of institutions do not have such requirements.

They certainly will, and you certainly should give it a shot.

Another prestigious set of scholarships by Sime Darby, now open.

Sime Darby Undergraduate (Local U)
Sime Darby Undergraduate (Overseas U)
Sime Darby Pre-U

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Yayasan Tenaga Nasional Undergraduate (Overseas U)
Hong Leong Scholarships (undergraduate)
Yayasan Telekom Malaysia Scholarships (To MMU and Public Unis)

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Sheffield Scholarships to UK

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Anyway, to whoever that asked about the Petronas scholarships, it is now open. Took awhile to find it though, as the pages are hidden deep in the depths of the internet

Petronas Scholarships 2010

(1) Instructions to apply for the sponsorship :
http://spmonline.petronas.com.my/index.php

(2) To apply for the sponsorship :
http://spmonline.petronas.com.my/

(3) Requirements for application :
http://spmonline.petronas.com.my/index2.html

For some apparent reason, firefox will not load th pages, so make sure you use Internet Explorer 6.0 or above only.

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Certainly a busy time for the undergraduate applicants. More scholarships will be unveiled in the coming days, so stay tuned!

(Side note: If you have any doubts or immediate queries on these grants, do post them up on our facebook page wall or forums. I'll be checking those places more frequently than I do in this forum)

This post has been edited by chalach: Mar 13 2010, 07:17 PM

The 2000 word essay is true, yes. Something regarding your hopes and aspirations if I'm not wrong. Not a difficult thing to tackle if you're passionate about your future career choice.

Sometimes the requirements are just a "first line of defense" to avoid an influx of redundant applications - since your friend is just off the technical requirement by a small bit, I would suggest your friend to still give the scholarships a shot. Folks at the scholarships office are humans after all, and if your friend has an interesting enough co-curricular portfolio to boot, his chances are still there.

This post has been edited by chalach: Mar 14 2010, 01:13 PM

Yeah, maximum of 2000 words. However, as a general guideline I do suggest people not to go below half of the maximum length (eg. no less than 1000)
75% of the max allowable length eg. 1500 would be a safe spot.

I have no idea about how the folks filter and screen the applications, so my "rule of thumb" may be wrong

It means that the funding institution is separate from the learning institutions. For example in your case, The Star is the funding institution (providing the money) while the listed colleges/unis are the associated learning institution where Star Education Fund scholars will be able to pursue their studies at.

Generally, yes they only allow studies at the listed institutions so as to have more control over the quality of graduates later on (as opposed to sending scholars to any unverified institutions)

By "SPM to tertiary" I really do assume that you are talking about some form of foundation or diploma studies?

Well if you happen enough to be a bumiputera, here's one for you (although they still require you to go thru A-levels)
Permodal Nasional Berhad Scholarships

Others SPM-direct-to-diploma/foundation scholarships:
Petronas Scholarships
Yayasan TM Scholarships
Hong Leong Scholarships

..and much more. I believe that you will uncover more scholarships if you do some more Passionate searching.

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And for the latest roster of scholarships to hit us:

Securities Commission Scholarship
Lion-Parkson Foundation Scholarships
Permodal Nasional Berhad Scholarships
BCA Scholarships for Built Environment Studies at Singapore

Do search and get more scholarships while you're at Questle.com.

Cheers

This post has been edited by chalach: Mar 15 2010, 12:06 AM

Absence due to travelling commitments - but here are some of the more recent scholarships for those who didn't already know:

Assunta Hospital Nursing Scholarship
Tung Shin Hospital Pharmacy/Nursing Scholarship
CCM Scholarships (for biomedical/chemical-related studies)
Great Eastern Scholarship (actuarial science + IT)
Astro Scholarships (studies related to broadcasting, media, performing arts, etc etc)
Kenny Rogers Roasters Scholarship (in culinary arts, yum)

Hurry as some of the closing dates are near. Cheers everyone!