[Master and PhD Degree] Bilkent University UNAM Scholarship Program 2020, Turkey (Fully Funded)

Bilkent University UNAM, knowing the critical leading role of serving as a ‘National Lab’ at Bilkent, strives to create success impact and cross the boundaries of our campus by generating quality knowledge and task force leading to added value and positive progress that are beneficial to our Humankind and Mother Earth.

Bilkent UNAM aims at achieving excellence in science and technology. Standing still is not an option for sustainable and scalable excellence and progress. UNAM always has to advance and be internationally competitive. For that reason, Bilkent UNAM has to push and expand excellence as the basis for a leading national lab model.

Bilkent UNAM offers a wide range of financial aid options and prestigious fellowship/scholarship opportunities for graduate students. These include:

UNAM Bilkent University President Graduate Fellowship (formerly named Bilkent UNAM Graduate Fellowship)
UNAM Scholarship for Young Women
Bilkent UNAM Graduate Scholarship
Scholarship from externally funded projects

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1. University Graduate Fellowship (formerly named Bilkent UNAM Graduate Fellowship)
This prestigious award is highly competitive and highly regarded, and provides fellowship package for exceptionally talented MS and PhD candidates with outstanding academic record and/or having high-impact scientific publications.

Benefit:
This unique program awards the following financial aid package:

PhD Students

Tuition waiver (45.000 TL/year for the Academic Year 2019-2020)
Monthly stipend and housing support ( total of 4.500 TL / month)
Private health insurance
A laptop computer
Meal card
Travel support (once a year, at yearly determined fixed amount) to attend scientific events
The Awardee is expected to disseminate the results of his/her thesis research work being carried out at UNAM, by one of the means of which is intended to be UNAM’s travel support for his/her oral presentation at a well-known/-respected peer-reviewed conference

MS Students

Tuition waiver (34.900 TL/year for the Academic Year 2018-2019)
Monthly stipend and housing support (total of 3.000 TL / month)
Private health insurance
A laptop computer
Travel support (once a year, at yearly determined fixed amount) to attend scientific events
The Awardee is expected to disseminate the results of his/her thesis research work being carried out at UNAM, by one of the means of which is intended to be UNAM’s travel support for his/her oral presentation at a well-known/-respected peer-reviewed conference

The MS Fellowship can be converted to the PhD Fellowship, if the candidate is found successful during the thesis work or upon successful completion of the MS program.

2. Bilkent UNAM Graduate Scholarship This competitive program provides MS and PhD scholarship opportunity for the applicants with distinctive academic achievements.

Benefit:
This program awards the following financial aid package:

PhD Students

Tuition waiver (34.900 TL/year for the Academic Year 2018-2019)
Monthly stipend and housing (total of 4.000 TL / month)
Private health insurance
A laptop computer
Meal card (after the PhD qualifier)

MS students

Tuition waiver (34.900 TL/year for the Academic Year 2018-2019)
Monthly stipend and housing (total of 3.000 TL / month)
Private health insurance
A laptop computer

Successful MS students can be considered for PhD graduate Scholarship/Fellowship.

3. UNAM Scholarship for Young Women
This dedicated award encourages and supports promising young women in science and technology by offering scholarship opportunities for their MS and PhD studies.

Benefit:This is a unique and competitive program and awards the following financial aid package:

PhD Students

Tuition waiver (34.900 TL/year for the Academic Year 2018-2019)
Monthly stipend and housing (total of 4.000 TL / month)
Private health insurance
A laptop computer
Meal card (after the PhD qualifier)

MS students

Tuition waiver (34.900 TL/year for the Academic Year 2018-2019)
Monthly stipend housing (total of 3.000 TL / month)
Private health insurance
A laptop computer

Successful MS students can be considered for PhD graduate Scholarship/Fellowship.

4. Scholarship from externally funded projects and or externally funded fellowship programs
MS and PhD students are accepted to participate in specific research projects funded by external sources such as TÜBİTAK R&D projects and TÜBİTAK BİDEB scholarship, EU, and industry. The monthly stipend varies depending on the sources; MS or PhD study.

Bilkent UNAM provides the following aid packages:

Tuition waiver (34.960 TL/year for the Academic Year 2018-2019)
Private health insurance
A laptop computer
Meal card (for PhD students only and after the PhD qualifier)

Requirement:

CGPA REQUIREMENTS

BSc graduates or students need at least 2.80/4.00 CGPA at the time of application.

STANDARDIZED TEST REQUIREMENTS

If you are a Turkish citizen resident in Turkey: ALES score is required, <55 (quantitative),
Otherwise; GRE General Test score is required: 153 (quantitative). However, if you are off by a small margin and you have a strong background, we encourage you to apply.

ENGLISH PROFICIENCY

TOEFL IBT(at least 87), IELTS (at least 6.5 average and 5.5 from each section) or Bilkent COPE (at least C).
In addition, foreign language requirements as imposed by Inter-universities Board (ÜAK) of Turkey (minimum of 55 from YDS or its equivalents as listed by the Board, in a language other than the mother tongue) must be satisfied by Turkish citizen PhD applicants.
You may also be eligible if you provide a COPE score of at least “C”, instead.

Please check the graduate school webpage for the most up to date requirements from here.

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