What Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy PhD Scholarship (LKYSPP) – Singapore actually covers.

The Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (LKYSPP) at the National University of Singapore offers a prestigious and fully funded PhD scholarship to outstanding doctoral candidates from across the globe, with explicit emphasis on attracting scholars from Asia, Africa, and other emerging regions who are committed to addressing governance, policy, and development challenges in their home countries and the wider world.

LKYSPP is widely regarded as Asia's premier public policy school, named after Singapore's founding prime minister Lee Kuan Yew, and draws faculty and students from every region of the globe. The school's research focuses on governance, public administration, social policy, international affairs, urban policy, health systems, environmental policy, and economic development — topics of direct and pressing relevance to policymakers and researchers across Africa.

PhD scholarship recipients at LKYSPP receive full tuition coverage, a monthly stipend of approximately SGD 2,600, health insurance, and a research travel and conference grant for the full normative duration of their doctoral programme. The school maintains a highly selective admissions process that prioritises applicants with prior professional experience in government, international organisations, or the public sector, as well as those with strong research backgrounds and clearly articulated research questions relevant to public policy in developing regions.

For African scholars interested in questions of governance, public finance, political economy, social policy, or regional integration, LKYSPP offers a uniquely enriching environment: the school's faculty includes policymakers, economists, and political scientists who have worked on exactly these issues in real-world contexts. The next application cycle for the PhD programme typically closes in December for August intake.

Who can apply.

Open to phd applicants seeking to study in Singapore. Eligible nationalities are listed below.

46 more eligible countries — full list available on the official application page.

Every academic discipline is accepted.

This programme does not restrict by field. Research proposals across humanities, sciences, engineering, agriculture, and medicine are all accepted.

Four steps to a complete application.

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Other scholarships worth a parallel application.

Same eligibility window or destination. Many strong applicants apply to three or four programmes per cycle.