The NUS Performing & Visual Arts Scholarship (Mid-Term) is awarded to NUS students pursuing full-time undergraduate programmes, excluding Music. It is tenable from the academic year of award for the remaining semesters of the normal candidature period of an undergraduate degree programme. For Concurrent Degree Programmes, the scholarship coverage is up to 4 years.
The Scholarship may be transferred to all undergraduate programmes of study except for transfers to Medicine, Dentistry, Law and Music.
Recipients of the scholarship may not concurrently hold any other scholarship, fellowship, bursary, grant, award or allowance without prior approval from the University.
The scholarship will be monitored and renewed every semester provided the scholarship holder:
- Displays good conduct
- Maintains a GPA of at least 3.5 (or Top 80% percentile of the cohort for Dentistry, Medicine or Law)
- Participates in at least one NUS Office of Student Affairs event per Academic Year (engagement dialogues, leadership programmes etc.)
- Commits to active and meaningful contributions to the NUS performing and/or visual arts scene throughout their candidature by:
- Actively pursuing training and development to enhance their artistic practice
- Completing two out of the three following:
- Leading and organising arts productions or activities on campus individually or as part of an NUS group, and/or
- Initiating project(s) that benefit a specific community through the arts and/or that fosters an appreciation of their artform amongst NUS students or the wider community, and/or
- Embarking on substantive artistic collaborations with artists and arts groups both within and/or outside of NUS.
The scholarship holder will be restricted to a maximum of twelve (12) months of overseas programme(s) or internship(s) for the entire duration of his/her undergraduate programme.
If the scholarship holder decides to withdraw from the University and/or terminate the scholarship prematurely, the University reserves the right to impose repayment of all scholarship monies disbursed to the scholarship holder.
