How to Apply for Confucius Institute Scholarship 2024?
To apply for Confucius Institute Scholarship, please follow the following procedure:
- Application deadline: Until May 15 if you want to apply for a scholarship to start in September, and until the end of October if you want to start in March, 2025.
- Delivery of applications: Contact the in charge person of the scholarships. The application must be made online in the official page of the Confucius Institute scholarships(you need to have all the documents scanned, including your passport and a passport size photo).
- Then you must submit the entire required paper document.
- Results will be announced about three months before the program starts.
- Sending documents to process the visa: The necessary documents to process the visa are sent by postal mail within 15 days after the publication of the result. At this point of the procedure I recommend patience, since you may have to wait more than a month to receive the letter.
Eligibility Requirements for Confucius Institute Scholarship 2024
Following are the documents and eligibility requirements for Confucius Institute Scholarship:
- Not have a Chinese nationality and enjoy good health. If you are going to study for a period longer than six months, you need to prove that you are in good physical and mental condition to process your residence permit in China. For this, you will have to deliver, once at your destination university (it is not a required document during the application period), a duly completed copy of the official Chinese medical form or Foreigner Physical Examination Form.
- Applicants must be between the ages of 16 and 35 (it is extended up to 45 years for people who demonstrate that they are working as Chinese teachers at the time of applying for the scholarship). Applicants for undergraduate scholarships cannot exceed 20 years of age.
- It is essential to have a degree of Chinese language level (written and oral HSK and, in some cases, BCT and oral BCT are also accepted). This requirement is according to the type of scholarship. To check the complete language requirements, click here.
- A letter of recommendation signed by the in charge person of the Confucius Institute through which you apply for the scholarship.
- In the case of the MTCSOL scholarship, those applicants who demonstrate that they have a job as Chinese Language professors after completing the master’s degree studies in China will be preferred.
NOTE: During the online application process, you will be required to write a short motivation letter that details your reasons and expectations from the scholarship (about 300 words).