China Scholarship Council (CSC)
The University of Turin is glad to welcome applications for admission to its Doctoral Programmes from China Scholarship Council candidates (2025-2026 round).
The selection of candidates consists in a two-fold process: a pre-selection at UniTo and a further selection at CSC.
The first step is aimed at selecting applicants willing to enrol in a PhD Programme in Turin.
At a later stage, preselected applicants will then have to apply to CSC call on the CSC website, according to the prescribed deadlines for the prospective awarding of a scholarship.
The call for application at UniTo is now open. The new deadline for submitting the required documents is 26th February 2025.
- Chinese citizenship
- Meet the requirements of the CSC
- Postgraduate degree or other equivalent academic qualification awarded by a foreign university and granting access to PhD studies within 31st October 2025.
PhD candidates are usually invited to submit the documents listed below by email to UniTo Office for International Relations ([email protected]):
- motivation letter and CV, specifying the PhD programme they are interested in
- a short research project proposal (max 2 pages long) on a subject related to the PhD Programme chosen
- an official certificate issued by their University relating to: achievement of both undergraduate and postgraduate degree, with final grade, date and place of award, duly signed and bearing the official seal of the University
- official transcript of records of the whole academic career with their relative marks, date and place of award
- a copy of both sides of a valid passport bearing the applicant’s photo and signature
- a certificate attesting the knowledge of the English language (B2 level) if you have one; if you do not possess this certificate, your language skills will be assessed through a Skype call.
All documents must be translated into English or Italian. Candidates are also required to inform if they need to communicate the results of the assessment at UniTo to their home universities in China within a precise deadline.
Candidates will be assessed by a selection panel including the PhD programme coordinators both based on the documents they sent and based on a Skype call if required.
Selection outcomes will be available on this webpage. Admission letters will be sent to all the pre-admitted candidates.
Pre-selected applicants at UniTo are invited to apply directly for CSC scholarships on the CSC website, according to the prescribed deadlines. If they will not obtain the CSC scholarship, pre-selected applicants will not be admitted to UniTo PhD programmes.
For any doubt or further information about PhD programmes available at the University of Turin students can directly contact [email protected].
For any doubt or further information about CSC candidate admission procedure, students can contact [email protected].