Global Korea Scholarship (GKS) for Graduate Degrees
National Institute for International Education (NIIED), Ministry of Education, Republic of Korea
Who can apply: You and both of your parents must hold non-Korean citizenship. You must be under 40, hold a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree, and have averaged at least 80 per cent in your most recent programme. You cannot apply direct to NIIED: the Embassy Track goes through the Korean Embassy in your country of citizenship, and the… What is funded: Airfare, Korean language training costs, tuition and study allowances, covering language training plus the degree programme. No monthly figure is printed for the degree tracks on this page. Duration is two years for a master’s and three years for a doctorate on top of language training. The graduate quota is 2,000… Deadline: See official page.
Read the full call and apply on the official page: National Institute for International Education (NIIED), Ministry of Education, Republic of Korea, official page.
Who can apply
- You and both of your parents must hold non-Korean citizenship. You must be under 40, hold a Bachelor's or Master's degree, and have averaged at least 80 per cent in your most recent programme. You cannot apply direct to NIIED: the Embassy Track goes through the Korean Embassy in your country of citizenship, and the University Track goes directly to a GKS-designated Korean university. Research programmes are University Track only. The student is the applicant in both tracks.
Stage dates
NIIED prints the selection process by month with no year: announcement in February, application submission to the Embassy or the university February to March, review April to June, final results June.See the official page
Dates come from the funder's page for this round. When a round closes, the next round's dates replace these once the funder publishes them.