SERB-UBC Scholarship

Eligibility to apply for scholarship funding:

• Applicants must be Indian citizens.
• Applicants should be resident in India at the time of application.
• Applicants must have completed their previous degree in India within the last 24 months of the application deadline.
• Applicants must intend to undertake research in these priority areas: Materials, Energy, Sustainable Chemistry, Quantum Computing and Spintronics, Complex systems, Theoretical Mathematical Science, Big Data, Mechanobiology / Physical Biology, Bio-energy, Genetic to Physiology, Mental Health, High Performance Computation in Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Mathematics, Humanoid Robotics, Cognitive Science, Mechnotronics, Advanced Manufacturing, Cyber security, Encryption and decryption, Petroleum and Petro-Chemical Engineering, Science of Climate Change, Glaciology, Modeling, Imaging, Algorithms and Combinatorial Optimizations.

Eligibility to hold scholarship funding:

• Recipients must be offered and accept admission to a UBC PhD program in the fields listed above.
• Recipients must sign a bond with SERB in which the recipient agrees, among other terms, to return to India after completion of their PhD for a minimum period of five years. A copy of the student bond from the 2016 competition is provided for reference below under "Further Information".
• To remain eligibile for continued scholarship support, recipients must make adequate academic progress as defined in the relevant policies of UBC.

Please check the SERB website for additional eligibility criteria provided by the Science and Engineering Research Board.