NTU Talent Scholarship

Most scholarships reward what your transcript says. The NTU Talent Scholarship rewards what you have done outside it — sustained achievement in the arts, in sport, or in leadership — and pairs it with a package that covers the full subsidised tuition fee after Singapore's MOE Tuition Grant, a living allowance of S$6,500 per academic year, and a talent grant of up to S$8,000 to develop the ability that got you selected. NTU states eligibility as open to all nationalities, so Sri Lankan applicants are directly in scope. This is a genuinely useful route for the Sri Lankan student who has represented a school or a province in sport, performed seriously in music or dance, or built something real in a student organisation, and whose A/L results are strong but not stratospheric. Selection is by interview: freshmen are interviewed between February and April, with a mid-term intake interviewed in July and August. Two conditions to weigh honestly. Applicants to the full-term Medicine programme are not eligible. And international students who accept the MOE Tuition Grant take on a three-year bond to work for a Singapore-registered company after graduation — a serious commitment worth thinking through before you sign, though for many graduates it is the launchpad they wanted.

Annual cycle within NTU undergraduate admissions — freshmen interviews run February to April, with mid-term intake interviews in July and August