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China Scholarship Council (CSC)
CSC-Leiden University joint scholarship program
The China Scholarship Council (CSC) provides scholarships for Chinese citizens who want to do PhD research at Leiden University, either full-time or as a visiting researcher. The prospective candidates must be admitted to the Graduate School of Science.
The annual CSC Joint Scholarship recruiting and admission process goes as follows:
Info 2025 application round not (yet) available. It is not yet known if and when the 2025 application round will be announced. Please keep an eye on this webpage for updates: https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/scholarships/sea/csc-leiden-university-scholarship.
| What | Who | Deadline |
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Find a PhD position and supervisor at Leiden University and apply for the position |
Prospective PhD candidate |
15 February |
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Find a PhD position and supervisor at Leiden University and apply for the position |
Prospective PhD candidate |
15 February |
|
Inform the GS of the intended decision to accept a CSC PhD candidate by mailing the name, email address, CV, research proposal and, if available, information on previous education of the candidate to the GS: gsoffice@science.leidenuniv.nl |
Promotor |
22 February |
|
Contact the prospective candidate to provide additional information needed for a credential evaluation |
GS |
|
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Application for credential evaluation. When the credential evaluation is positive, the Dean decides on the conditional admission of the candidate. The result of the credential evaluation and the decision of conditional admission will be forwarded to the supervisor and the promoter |
GS |
28 February 2019 |
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After the conditional admission to the Graduate School of Science, the promoter provides the conditional Acceptance letter (conform template) and send this by e-mail to the candidate and the GS: gsoffice@science.leidenuniv.nl |
Promotor |
28 February |
|
Inform the SEA (Scholarship of LU Student and Educational Affairs) about the conditional admission to the Graduate School of Science |
GS |
1 March |
|
CSC will receive the list of Leiden prospective candidates |
SEA |
March |
|
Inform your candidate to apply for Leiden-CSC joint program (this program has higher success rate than the general CSC program) |
Promotor |
March |
|
Apply for Leiden-CSC joint program |
prospective PhD candidate |
March |
|
Information about the final admission to the CSC joint program to the prospective candidate, promotor and the GS |
CSC |
May/ June |
|
After admission to the CSC joint program, the normal procedure for new guest employer becomes effective:
|
Promotor PhD candidate |
July July |
|
Start of contract |
|
Begin September |
|
CSC – Full PhD programme |
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What GS= Graduate School of Science |
Who |
Deadline |
|
Find a PhD position and supervisor at Leiden University and apply for the position |
Prospective PhD candidate |
15 February |
|
Inform the GS of the intended decision to accept a CSC PhD candidate by mailing the name, email address, CV, research proposal and, if available, information on previous education of the candidate to the GS: gsoffice@science.leidenuniv.nl |
Promotor |
22 February |
|
Contact the prospective candidate to provide additional information needed for a credential evaluation |
GS |
|
|
Application for credential evaluation. When the credential evaluation is positive, the Dean decides on the conditional admission of the candidate. The result of the credential evaluation and the decision of conditional admission will be forwarded to the supervisor and the promoter |
GS |
28 February |
|
After the conditional admission to the Graduate School of Science, the promoter provides the conditional Acceptance letter (conform template) and send this by e-mail to the candidate and the GS: gsoffice@science.leidenuniv.nl |
Promotor |
28 February |
|
Inform the SEA (Scholarship of LU Student and Educational Affairs) about the conditional admission to the Graduate School of Science |
GS |
1 March |
|
CSC will receive the list of Leiden prospective candidates |
SEA |
March |
|
Inform your candidate to apply for Leiden-CSC joint program (this program has higher success rate than the general CSC program) |
Promotor |
March |
|
Apply for Leiden-CSC joint program |
prospective PhD candidate |
March |
|
Information about the final admission to the CSC joint program to the prospective candidate, promotor and the GS |
CSC |
May/ June |
|
After admission to the CSC joint program, the normal procedure for new guest employer becomes effective:
|
Promotor PhD candidate |
July July |
|
Start of contract |
|
Begin September |
The Graduate School of Science is in charge of the CSC-full scholarship procedure. So if you have any questions on procedures and admission: mail or call the Graduate School Office.
For other matters on recruiting related to CSC, contact Policy officer internationalization research Yun Tian: y.tian@science.leidenuniv.nl
Visiting/exchange CSC PhD researchers:
Please also inform the Graduate School of Science of your decision on the visiting/exchange CSC PhD researchers (who will not obtain their PhD in Leiden), as CSC also require a list from Leiden. There is a separate CSC acceptance letter for visiting PhD researchers.
General information can be found on the University website: