Scholarships, Study Award & Financial Aid

*ECE scholarship is not available for AY24/25, look out for New Update!

ECE Shannon Study Award

The Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Department currently offers the ECE Shannon Study Award to top electrical engineering (EE) students based on their University Admission Score, starting from the AY2024/2025 intake.  The award comes with the following benefits:

  1. S$15,000 allowance, of which S$7,500 will be disbursed to the award recipient in the 1st semester of study, and another S$7,500 will be disbursed in the 5th semester of study in the EE programme.
  2. There is no bond attached to the award.

The award recipient must pursue EE programme during the tenure of this award, maintain a minimum GPA of 3.5, and must not be subject to any disciplinary action for continuation of the 2nd disbursement.  In addition, the award recipient may not, without the approval of the University, concurrently hold any other scholarship. Award recipients should also be committed to serve the Department in various department events such as student outreach activities.

No application is needed for this study award as it is merit-based (good ‘A’ level, Poly, IB, NUS High results) and will be awarded to deserving Singaporean students.

ECE Scholarships

The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) is offering attractive ECE Scholarships to freshmen admitted to the Electrical Engineering (EE) or Computer Engineering (CEG) Programme.

Benefits of ECE Scholarship:

  1. Covers Tuition fees (after MOE Tuition Grant subsidy), S$6,000 annual living allowance, S$2,000 one-time computer allowance upon enrolment.
  2. Guaranteed offer of accommodation on-campus at Ridge View Residential College for the first 2 years of UG studies, provided the Scholar submits a complete hostel admission application every year within the prescribed application periods, and fulfils NUS’s eligibility criteria for NUS on-campus accommodation.
  3. 1-semester Student Exchange Programme (SEP) with one of NUS’ overseas partner universities.
  4. Member of highly exclusive ECE Undergraduate Student Council (USC).
    • serves as the voice for the ECE undergraduate student body and the champion for student life activities to enhance the University experience of all ECE undergraduate students;
    • As a member of the USC, the award recipient will be viewed as a role model to fellow students and a student leader. To assist the award recipient develop his/her leadership skills, he/she will go through a Student Leadership Programme together with fellow USC members. This leadership programme is organized by the Department and comprises of leadership workshops conducted by professional trainers, as well as a shadowing programme which gives USC members the opportunity to shadow prominent senior managers in the industry for a day.

The ECE Scholarship is bond-free, merit-based and will be awarded to deserving Singaporean or PR students who have performed well academically and not concurrent recipients of any other scholarships. Award recipients will need to maintain a minimum GPA of 3.5 and have not been subjected to disciplinary actions to continue to receive their annual awards.

Application is closed!

For enquiries on ECE Scholarship, please contact askECE@nus.edu.sg

NUS Scholarships

NUS offers a variety of undergraduate scholarships and awards in recognition of outstanding academic achievements, leadership qualities and special talents.

Examples include ECE Scholarship, NUS Global Merit Scholarship, NUS Merit Scholarship, LKY-STEP Award, University Engineering Scholarship. Please refer to the Office of Admissions for more details and full listing of the scholarships available.