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Admissions PhD Programs SCHOLARSHIPS AND NUST PHD FELLOWSHIPS (NPF)

SCHOLARSHIPS AND NUST PHD FELLOWSHIPS (NPF)

NUST PhD Fellowship (NPF): NUST encourages the enrollment of full-time PhD students. Through NPF, full-time students will have the opportunity to do quality research and polish their academic skills by doing on-campus jobs.

Salient Features

    1. Selected full-time PhD students will get tuition fee waiver for 6x semesters (i.e. 3 years)
    2. All awardees will act as graduate assistants with their respective supervisors and on maintaining regular attendance will be awarded basic stipend i.e. Graduate Allowance of Rs/ 10,000.
    3. Awardees can earn additional stipend apart from Graduate allowance by performing on-campus jobs available in respective department / institution for a period of 8x semesters (i.e. 4 years) subject to displaying satisfactory academic performance.
    4. Engineering students can earn maximum stipend of Rs/ 50,000 and Sciences students can earn maximum stipend of Rs/ 30,000.

Eligibility

    1.  Applicable for PhD students enrolled from Fall 2022 and onwards.
    2. Only full time PhD student fulfilling undermentioned conditions.
      • Takes at least 09 credit hours coursework in each semester during coursework phase
      • Available during office hours throughout regular semesters.
      • In case a PhD candidate is employed, he/she has to obtain unpaid leave of 4 years from their organization in order to be eligible for award of NPF.
    3. Awardee should not be full time employed or on study leave during entire scholarship period.
    4. The student should maintain 3.50 CGPA throughout the coursework. The student must pass the coursework and both qualifier examinations  within two years of PhD.