Provisional Regulations on CWAS Scholarship for UESTC Students

Article 1 Purpose and Principles of CWAS Scholarship for UESTC Students

To encourage and attract more outstanding students from West African countries to come for degree study, University of Electronic Science & Technology of China (hereinafter referred to as UESTC) sets up CWAS (Center for West African Studies) Scholarship for UESTC Students. The award is set up to reward new students with potential in future academic research. Applicants shall not win any other scholarship in the meantime. (Including UESTC scholarship , CSCI scholarship, etc.)

Article 2 Award and Applicants of Scholarship

Award:

One full scholarship for PhD student, including tuition fee + accommodation fee + medical insurance premium fee + living expense fee 12000 RMB/year;

Two full scholarships for master students, including tuition fee + accommodation fee + medical insurance premium fee + living expense fee 9000 RMB/year.

Applicants: This scholarship is only available for outstanding student who is coming for degree study in UESTC. Scholarship students should complete their study within the set time; duration for scholarship specified in the Admission Notice cannot be extended in principle.

Article 3 Criteria & Eligibility

1. Applicants must be non-Chinese citizens and be in line with the qualifications of UESTC admissions with research field in West African Studies.

2. Applicants should be healthy physically and mentally, can well adapt to the life and study in UESTC;

3. Applicants should abide by Chinese laws and regulations, and UESTC regulations;

4. Applicants should be with positive learning attitude and good performance;

5. The applicant is obliged to submit application materials required by CWAS of UESTC.

Article 4 Required documents for Application

Applicants should submit supporting documents to Office of International Cooperation and School of International Education, login: admission.uestc.edu.cn for details. And applicants should submit additional document Research Proposal relating to African studies together with all the documents required by Office of International Cooperation and School of International Education to CWAS of UESTC E-mail address: cwasuestc@163.com.

Article 5 Application Deadline and Allocating of Scholarship

Applications are accepted from January 1 to March 31.

Scholarship allocating will start from September. Scholarship students shall receive their monthly allowance after registration. New students who register before 15th (15th included) of the registration month will get the full amount of allowance of that month, and those who register after 15th will get half amount of that month. Students upon graduation will get allowance for another 15 days after the graduation date set by the university which is usually falling upon June 30th. The allowance will be terminated from the following month after the students suspend their studies, drop school or complete schooling from the university. Monthly allowance covers school holidays. Scholarship students who missed the monthly allowance during holidays could be reimbursed upon their return to campus. The allowance will be suspended for at least one month for those students who do not register on time without permission from the university, leave for non-health reasons or are absent from university over a month.

For scholarship students who is violating Chinese laws and regulations, or violating UESTC regulations, UESTC is entitled to adjust, withhold, or even cancel the Scholarship, depending on the severity of the problem.

Article 6 Reviewing of Scholarship

Each scholarship candidate must participate in the Annual Review of scholarship. Please refer to “Measures of Annual Review of Chinese Government Scholarship and UESTC Scholarship Status” for the details of Annual Review.

The present Regulation comes into force on the day of promulgation. And its power shall be vested in the Scholarship Review Committee of CWAS of UESTC.

You can also find the information on UESTC Website by click:

https://en.uestc.edu.cn/index.php?m=content&c=index&a=lists&catid=170

https://en.uestc.edu.cn/index.php?m=content&c=index&a=show&catid=131&id=5446