PhD Scholarships

Scholarships for PhD study directly linked to LARC projects

SMU's collaboration with CMU through LARC includes a special PhD overseas training residency. Selected PhD students from SMU will spend up to 10 months at Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania campus under the supervision of CMU faculty who are working on LARC projects, and also co-supervised by their SIS faculty advisors.

All SMU PhD students are eligible to apply for this LARC overseas PhD training residency if they are working on LARC projects as an integral part of their PhD study, and if they meet other selection criteria.

Most of the SMU PhD students selected for the LARC overseas PhD training residency at CMU will be those enrolled in the School of Information Systems programme whose PhD studies are directly linked to LARC projects.

Candidates applying for PhD study in the SMU School of Information Systems typically come from the following types of bachelors or masters degree programmes:

Computer Science
Information Technology and Systems
Data Analytics (from a computer science, engineering/science or social science discipline)
Optimisation and Decision Analytics (from a computer science, engineering/science or social science discipline)
Computationally oriented programmes in Social Science, Engineering, Physical Science, or Life Science
Management Analysis of Information Systems (with a strong background in empirical analysis or analytic modeling)
Statistics
Mathematics

Candidates interested in the SMU School of Information Systems PhD Programme should visit the SIS PhD website.

Candidates from the PhD programmes of other SMU schools applying for LARC overseas PhD training residency at CMU are expected to have strong fundamentals in their respective PhD programme discipline. The requirement that they are working on LARC projects as an integral part of their PhD study also applies. Prospective students interested in applying to these other SMU PhD programmes should visit the Phd programme web pages from the other SMU Schools. All of the SMU PhD programme web pages can be accessed from here http://www.smu.edu.sg/gso/postgrad_programmes.asp.

Additional Information on the LARC Overseas PhD Training Residency at Carnegie Mellon is provided here.