Award Range

• Tuition fees sponsorship for 1st to 6th semester
• Monthly allowance of RM2,250 for 36 months

Requirements

• Application is open to International students registered as full time PhD students at the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia who are currently in 1st until 6th semester.
• Applicant is currently not working or receiving any form of financial aids from other sources.
• Applicant is required to be in Malaysia within 2 months during the application period.
• Applicant who has received the IDF in the previous semesters, must submit papers published within one (1) previous year and current only.
• Publications without the name of Main Supervisor and UTM affiliation will not be considered.
• Papers will be evaluated based on the contribution of the writers.
• Publication must be verified by Main Supervisor on the first page of the article/s.
• The decision in relation to the IDF award is FINAL and no appeal will be considered/entertained.
• The University has right to reject the application in the event of false information provided.

Application for International Doctoral Fellowship 2022/2023-11:

19th until 30th March 2023

Application Requirements / Instructions

1. Open to students (both local & international) registered in PhD and Master by Research programs in UTM. However, for international students only those enrolled in doctoral programme are eligible.
2. Priority is given to an applicant in semester 1-6 for PhD and semester 1-3 for Master by Research candidate.
3. Application should be filed in advance at least two (2) months prior the date of the conference. These documents are required for the application:
       a) Details of the conference with your name as presenter (e.g: proceeding, concurrent schedule);
   b) Offer/Invitation letter from organizer;
   c) Abstract of paper presentation;
   d) Quotation of the registration fees;
4. Only approved applications, will qualify to claim for the grant.
5. Applicant must be invited as an oral presenter and present at the conference. Applicant must be the first student author of the paper, which must cover original, ongoing research and directly related to the applicant thesis topic.
6. Applicant must not receive any full scholarship (tuition fees and monthly allowance) during the application submission.
7. Applicant can only be awarded with this financial assistance ONCE throughout the study.
8. Please take note that an applicant’s funding will be cancelled upon submission of thesis for viva voce.
9. Only attendance to conference organized by registered association/university/research institute/academic organization/government agency (preferably indexed conference) will be considered for financial support. Supervisors are responsible to check and ensure that the conference is not organized by commercial organizer.
10. The rates for this funding are as below:
        a) PhD – maximum amount of RM700
    b) Master by Research – maximum amount of RM500

How To Apply

The application form is available at :-

[DOWNLOAD]  (updated on 21 May 2021)

Note: Following the UTM Bursary procedure, original receipts are required for claim purposes.

Hence, please make sure original documents are submitted to SPS office via post or walk-in to avoid delay.

Please inform us via email at sps.scholarship@utm.my, should you have difficulties in submitting the original documents.

Claim Payments

Below are the maximum value in claims that a student can apply for the Publication Incentive:

• Q1 : RM250.00
• Q2 : RM250.00

The new rate is effective from 1st June 2020.

Application is subjected to the availability of the allocation approved by the University.

Claim Criteria

The criteria required in making Publication Incentive Claims:

1. The applicant must be the First Student Author and UTM Graduate student
2. Published paper must have volume no. and page no.
3. Affiliation must be Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
4. Applicant must be the First Student Author and supervisor(s) must be one of the authors
5. All claims made in the current year are only valid for paper published in the CURRENT SEMESTER and in ONE PREVIOUS SEMESTER

How To Apply

The application form is available at:

[DOWNLOAD]  (updated on 30 July 2020)