CSC-VUB Scholarship Programme

Who can apply? 

Who can apply for a full PhD (3-4 years)?

• You must have the Chinese nationality, and meet the eligibility requirements of CSC.
• You are a last-year Master students from a Chinese university (for 4-year scholarship)
• Or a last-year Master student from a university outside of China (for 4-year scholarship)
• Or a student who already obtained a Master degree (for 4-year scholarship)
• Or a first-year PhD student currently enrolled in a university outside of China  (for 3-year scholarship)

Who can apply for a jointly supervised PhD (6-24 months)?

• You must have the Chinese nationality, and meet the eligibility requirements of CSC.
• You are a current PhD student enrolled in a Chinese university

What does the scholarship cover? 

Based on the agreement between VUB and CSC, the scholarship include a monthly allowance for the allocated period & international flight offered by CSC, and tuition fee waiver & health insurance offered by VUB (Note: the insurance is only provided for full PhD or jointly-supervised PhD students). 

Type of PhD scholarships

- Full PhD candidates (3 to 4 years for a PhD degree at VUB) 

 - Jointly supervised PhD - only for PhD students currently enrolled in a Chinese university (6 to 24 months for exchange or double-degree based on a mutual agreement for each student)

The VUB-CSC scholarship programme offers two kinds of jointly supervised PhD programmes:

• Jointly supervised PhD without a PhD degree from VUB (equivalent to the PhD exchange or guest student at VUB). 
• Jointly supervised PhD for a student who wishes to obtain double PhD degrees from both VUB and the home university in China based on the agreement between two universities and two supervisors. In this case, an agreement will be signed between the promoter (or supervisor) at VUB and the promoter at the Chinese university for a specific PhD student. The application follows the same procedure as a PhD candidate mentioned above. Please feel free to contact us for more information.

*Note: According to the policy of CSC, the Chinese supervisor of jointly supervised PhD students can apply for a one-month scholarship to visit the supervisor in VUB.

Postdoctoral candidates and visiting scholars

Please contact professors or research group by yourself by referring to the PhD topics mentioned above or visit our research portal: https://researchportal.vub.be/

Please note that after accepted by VUB, postdoc and visiting scholar need to apply for Single Permit before applying for Belgian visa. 

If you have questions concerning the procedure, please send an e-mail to csc@vub.be, mentioning 'CSC Postdoc Application' or 'CSC Visiting Scholars Application'. If you already have a VUB supervisor, please inform us the name of the professor, research topic, and duration via email. 

APS certificate

The final candidates who obtained the VUB-CSC scholarship do not need an APS certificate anymore since 2018. CSC grant holders are fully exempted from the APS procedure, but only based on the exemption name list provided by the International Relations office at VUB to the relevant Belgian authority. If the candidates applied through this website, the names will be added to the list automatically. If the candidates applied through other channels, please notify the International Relations office by sending an email to csc@vub.be

More information about APS on VUB website can be found here, or the official APS website here.

Please note that the information above may be subject to change under certain circumstances.

Other types of CSC scholarships (outgoing & incoming)

Language: English 

Level:  

• Bachelor 
• Master 
• PhD 
• Post-Doc 
• Staff 

Student Type:  

• Exchange Student 
• Degree Student 
   

Country:  China 

Type-Level Assignment:  

• exchange bachelor
• exchange master
• exchange phd
• exchange post-doc
• exchange staff

Contact

Should you have further questions, do not hesitate to contact us by sending an e-mail to csc@vub.be. Please mention 'CSC PhD Application' or 'CSC Postdoctoral Application' in the subject of your e-mail for Chinese applicants.

For the VUB students who would like to apply for studying in China as an exchange student, please mention "CSC scholarship outgoing mobility" in the subject of your e-mail.