TaiwanICDF International Higher Education Scholarship Program 2026 – YOA

Deadline: March 15, 2026

Applications are open for the TaiwanICDF International Higher Education Scholarship Program 2026. The International Higher Education Scholarship Program, central to the TaiwanICDF, gives full scholarships to excellent college students from associate nations to pursue greater training in Taiwan via collaborations with native universities.

The objective is to assist the socio-financial progress of associate nations via the cultivation of extremely gifted people. This program additionally enhances the internationalization of Taiwan’s universities and expands Taiwanese youth’s world perspective. 

Since 1998, the TaiwanICDF has collaborated with associate universities in Taiwan to ascertain the Taiwan International Cooperation Alliance (TICA), creating an operational platform to leverage and optimize the scholarship program underneath this TICA framework.

Scholarship

The complete scholarship, together with airfare (spherical journey), housing, tuition, credit score charges, insurance coverage, textbook prices and a month-to-month allowance shall be supplied by the TaiwanICDF to every scholar inside his/her given award interval. The scholarship is itemized as follows:

• Airfare: The TaiwanICDF shall organize your most-direct flights to and from Taiwan with Economy Class tickets. Every airline has its personal carry-on and check-in baggage coverage, together with for weight limits and transporting pets. Applicants have been suggested to check with the airways for particulars earlier than departure.
• Housing: All college students should reside within the scholar dormitories.
• Tuition charge: The TaiwanICDF will cowl the schooling charge as required by the scholar’s college.
• Credit charges: Credit charges range with the variety of credit registered. Credit charges will even be lined as required by the scholar’s college.
• Insurance: While in Taiwan, along with the obligatory scholar security insurance coverage set by the Ministry of Education, every scholar have to be insured for unintended and crucial medical protection. Insurance charges shall be lined for your complete length of this system.
• Book prices: Purchasing textbooks as required by the instructors shall be topic to the approval of the director of the scholar’s institute
• Allowance:
  • Bachelor’s Program: Each scholar shall obtain NT$15,000 per 30 days through the interval of this system as allowance for meals and miscellaneous dwelling bills. The sum shall be deposited month-to-month into the scholar’s native checking account.
  • Master’s Program: Each scholar shall obtain NT$18,000 per 30 days through the interval of this system as allowance for meals and miscellaneous dwelling bills. The sum shall be deposited month-to-month into the scholar’s native checking account.
  • Ph. D. Program: Each scholar shall obtain NT$20,000 per 30 days through the interval of this system as allowance for meals and miscellaneous dwelling bills. The sum shall be deposited month-to-month into the scholar’s native checking account.

Eligibility

• Be a citizen of a rustic on the List of Countries Eligible for TaiwanICDF Scholarship, and fulfill any particular standards established by his or her nation and/or authorities of citizenship.
• Neither be a nationwide of the Republic of China (Taiwan) nor an abroad compatriot scholar.
• Satisfy the admission necessities of the associate college to which she or he has utilized to study underneath a TaiwanICDF scholarship.
• Be in a position to fulfill all necessities for a Resident Visa (Code: FS) set by the Bureau of Consular Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and an Alien Resident Certificate (ARC) set by the Ministry of the Interior, of the ROC (Taiwan) authorities (which means that the TaiwanICDF has the precise to revoke a scholarship supplied if an applicant can not fulfill the visa necessities)
• Upon accepting a TaiwanICDF scholarship, not maintain some other ROC (Taiwan) authorities-sponsored scholarship (such because the Taiwan Scholarship) in the identical tutorial yr wherein the TaiwanICDF scholarship could be on account of begin.
• Not be making use of for an additional TaiwanICDF scholarship in unbroken succession to apply for a 2026 scholarship, candidates who’ve already held a TaiwanICDF scholarship, MOFA’s Taiwan Scholarship or an MOE scholarship should have graduated earlier than July 31, 2025.
• Provide the best-stage diploma earlier than July 31, 2026.
• Applicants unable to acquire the certificates by this date might as an alternative apply for subsequent yr’s scholarship.
• Have by no means had any scholarship revoked by any ROC (Taiwan) authorities company or associated establishment, nor been expelled from any Taiwanese college.

Application

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For extra info, go to TaiwanICDF International Higher Education Scholarship.