From 2007-2011, the China Scholarship Council (CSC), under its “Program of Governmental Graduate Student Scholarship” (PGGSS), plans to provide financial support to students from the top 49 Chinese universities toward scientific training abroad.
China plans to provide financial support annually to 5,000 joint degree students (1-2 years) or degree-oriented graduate students (4-5 years) and 7,000 non degree-oriented students/postdoctoral scholars who partake in training at U.S. universities.
The University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) is among a growing list of carefully selected American universities that Chinese students can attend through this financial support from the CSC, a significant outcome of the established partnerships with SJTUSM, GUCAS, & XJTUHSC.
UNMC will help to accept joint-training students, degree-seeking graduate students, and postdoctoral scholars for scientific training each year until 2011. The program’s aim is to provide excellent training to Chinese students under the guide of outstanding research scientists at UNMC. This will allow us to develop international scientific exchanges with top rated Chinese universities, furthering our channels of collaboration with these potential scientific partners.
DEGREE-SEEKING PROGRAM
This program supports students from a select group of 49 Chinese universities seeking a Ph.D. degree from UNMC, awarded by training and performing research projects supported by a Principal Investigator at UNMC for 4 to 5 years. These may be students who registered at their Chinese university during their last year of college, college graduates, or students with a Masters Degree who would like to pursue a Ph.D. offered by UNMC.
These students will be admitted by UNMC as a regular Ph.D. graduate student and train in a program very similar to that of regular UNMC graduate students. The students who apply for this program should meet UNMC requirements and evaluation procedures and complete their Ph.D. studies for the degrees at UNMC upon matriculation.
