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Table of Contents
Introduction to CSC ...................................................................................................................... 1
Eligibility..................................................................................................................................... 1
Stipend and Other Privileges ......................................................................................................... 1
Important Dates for online applications .......................................................................................... 1
List of Required Documents and Procedure to Acquire ................................................................... 2
Picture ..................................................................................................................................... 2
Passport ................................................................................................................................... 2
Highest Degree, Transcript (Notarized) –Procedure to Acquire .................................................... 2
Hope certificate (Result awaiting students) ................................................................................. 2
Recommendation letters (2 Letters Needed)................................................................................ 3
Medical Form ........................................................................................................................... 3
Study plan and research proposal ............................................................................................... 3
Language proficiency certificate ................................................................................................ 3
CDS, DVDs, USB etc. .............................................................................................................. 4
Acceptance or pre-admission letter if any (Not Mandatory) ......................................................... 4
Financial Guarantor (Not Mandatory)......................................................................................... 4
Character Certificate and police clearance certificate (Not Mandatory) ......................................... 4
How to Search your University, its school and Faculty? .................................................................. 4
Method 1.................................................................................................................................. 4
Method 2.................................................................................................................................. 5
Method 3.................................................................................................................................. 5
How to get pre admission and acceptance letters (Not mandatory) ................................................... 5
List of universities without processing fee ...................................................................................... 6
Agency Numbers of different universities to Apply CSC ................................................................. 6
How to convert your documents in different formats? ..................................................................... 6
How to apply................................................................................................................................ 7
How to pay processing fee (If any)? ............................................................................................... 8
When and how to send Hard Copies of your documents to china...................................................... 8
Scholarship Results....................................................................................................................... 8
HEC and Ministry Verification ...................................................................................................... 9
Medical Reports ........................................................................................................................... 9
Finally, you reached to Embassy, now buy ticket .......................................................................... 10
How to Buy a Ticket? ................................................................................................................. 10
Personal Introduction .................................................................................................................. 10
Introduction to CSC
China is now becoming second largest country which offers hundreds of thousands scholarships each
year. There are different scholarships available for under graduation, graduation, master degree and
Ph.D. in almost all fields of study. Chinese Scholarship Council (CSC) with category A, B and C is
the most reliable source among all of other scholarships. We can also avail provincial, Shanghai govt.
scholarship and rest of the opportunities but their stipend and other privileges will not be same as
CSC. If we remain unable to complete our degree within the given time, then CSC will not stop our
stipend but other scholarships have a defined time limit for the monthly stipend and rest of the
privileges. There are 279 universities under CSC which currently offer scholarships in all fields.
There are 3 main categories to apply a scholarship through CSC mainly Category A, B & C. Category
A generally refers to bilateral program and we have to apply through Chinese Embassy in our own
country. Category B refers to Chinese University Program and we have to apply directly to our chosen
university at China. It will require an agency number which we can easily get from Google and it will
be discussed further in next steps. Category C is not recommended because somewhere these are
partial scholarships and you have to pay some amount rather than the facilitation.
Eligibility
Age limit for master degree (MS and M.Phil.): 35 Years
Age limit for PhD 40 Years
Applicants must be Non-Chinese citizens in good health, at the age of 18 or above, and possess a
valid passport
Any applicant for a master’s degree must be a bachelor’s degree holder under (or at) the age of 35
Any applicant for a doctoral degree must be a master’s degree holder under (or at) the age of 40.
Applicants who have not yet graduated can obtain a pre-graduation letter from their current
educational institution stating their expected date of graduation. If accepted, the applicant is required
to provide the original graduation certificate upon registration. Otherwise, the acceptance qualification
will be cancelled
Universities which offer you pre-admission letter usually close their online portal late in Apr and May
but their No. is too less.
Picture
You must be having recent photograph with white background. Some students are even confused
about its size. You just need to crop it as per the size of any given box where you will upload it. It is
recommended that you take your picture and convert it in different formats like JPG, BMP, PING etc
because some universities will ask you to upload photograph in a file format other than JPG.
Passport
If you did not get it then make it sure that you will be having your passport before Jun because Jun
will be the month of result announcement so you will be required to present, your visa documents in
embassy. Passport must be having 6 months validity at the time of Visa)
Another important thing is that, you do not need to get verification of your documents from Higher
education commission (HEC), IBCC and Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA). IBCC attestation is the
requirement for those students which are going to pursue their bachelor degree in china. HEC and
MFA attestation is required for the higher education (master degree and Ph.D.) at the time of visa.
HEC, IBCC and MFA attestation is not required at the time of online application. If you get
admission, scholarship and visas then you have to get attestation of your documents from these
authorities otherwise there is no need of verification without any confirmation. Only highest degree
(Last) and transcript will be required for HEC and MFA attestation.
Medical Form
It can be downloaded from:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1420987797961376/1671737249553095/
Download form, paste your picture and fill it with your own hand writing or you may type it on PC.
Now go to any authorized medical Centre and get stamp and signature of medical officer on the given
place in form. It is recommended that you also go through medical tests to avoid any hurdle in case of
serious disease. Your pasted picture with white background must also be attested by medical officer.
This form has two pages so fill it accordingly. Reports must not be older than 4-6 months.
spend an extra year in learning Chinese language in your selected university and its scholarship will
be included in the program. After spending one year, you have to pass HSK then your regular degree
will start. In both case; you are eligible to apply either English taught program or a program where
Chinese will be the language of instructions.
Usually you yourself have to draft an acceptance letter if a professor agrees to accept you his student.
If you face difficulty in drafting an acceptance letter, then click this link below to know about the
sample of a letter.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1420987797961376/1664281200298700/
Open English or Chinese version of website in new tab to go directly to the university website. Here
you have to find your major and school. If you found your school, then it will not be too difficult to
find your Faculty. Some universities have very easy procedure to access your faculty and some need
to be explored. Usually every subject/major/department in china has its own website within the main
website of university so it is recommended to go exactly to your own school web portal. Few
universities have mixed different faculties so you can find a professor by reading his/her profile.
Method 2
Second method is also easy. Write name of your university in Google and then open its website. Try
to open both English and Chinese websites in different tabs. If you have problem in translating
Chinese website, then open it in chrome browser and click translate button available at top right
corner of your browser. Different universities have given the names of faculty members in different
section. Generally, you have to click programs or academics on university website so it will refer you
to the desired school. You have to open the webpage of your school on university main website and
there you will find the details of your subject and faculties.
Method 3
Some universities have given names and publication of their faculty members but emails are not
provided. So you have to search their publication or the journal they have mentioned. If you find their
publication in soft copies or even available on paid website, then you will also find their address there.
You can try google scholar to get the information regarding their published material.
Getting an acceptance letter is neither difficult nor easy. If you have successfully found the faculty of
your desired subject, then next step is to send them an email. It depends on your email draft that you
get an acceptance or not. Always show patience and respect whenever you approach a professor. Do
not send random emails to all faculty members. Read the profile of professors carefully, try to know
about their interest and design a proposal according to their interest area. Send emails only to those
professors whom research interest matches your proposal. If you have not prepared any proposal, then
mention the interest of your supervisor in your email after reading his/her profile on university portal.
Do not ask directly for an acceptance letter. 1st you need to get his attention then win his confidence
and finally request for an acceptance letter.
You can find agency number of any university from Google but if you remain unable to find it, click
the link below and download list of universities with their agency numbers
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1420987797961376/1717844774942342/
Some commonly used formats are BMP, JPG, TIFF, JPEG, PING, PDF, BMP etc. There is another
big issue that you will be required to reduce size of your documents up to 1MB or even 100 KBs.
Whenever you reduce size of a file, it gets blurred so try to use those online links or software which
does not affect resolution of your documents. If your study plan or research proposal is having more
than 6,7 or even 10 pages then you also have to merge them.
To convert into PDF of PDF into Word
If you are using updated MS Word then open your file and press f12 or simply go to file and press
save as your file in PDF. If you don’t have updated version of office installed in your PC then goes to
the link below, upload your document and then download after the conversion. You can convert PDF
into word and word into PDF.
To reduce size of file
Go to this link, upload file and then download again.
http://compressjpeg.com/ or http://compressimage.toolur.com/
To convert JPG PIN etc.
Go to this link, upload file and then download again.
https://pdf2jpg.net/
Note: - You can convert any paper, format etc. into another format online. So you also need to take
help from Google as per your requirements. Different software are also available for the conversion
into different formats like Format Factory etc.
How to apply
If you have collected all documents and consider yourself eligible for the scholarship, then it’s easy to
apply now. You have to go through the two-way procedure. Remember that you are applying through
CSC so only CSC online application will not be enough. I have discussed about hard copies of your
documents, notary public, study plan etc to make it clear that these things are mandatory. Filling a
form is not that much hard so make it sure that you have done with all of the requirements.
CSC applicants have to apply online. 1st you have to go on this website http://laihua.csc.edu.cn to
apply online. You may do it by searching campuschina.com. Here you have to create an account to
register yourself for the scholarship application. After creating an account, a link will be sent to your
email. Click that link and verify your associated account. Now login your CSC account with user
name and start your online application. At the very initial level, you will be asked to select category of
scholarship and then in next slot it will ask you to put an agency number (See agency number section
in this document). So Category slot has dropdown list where you will be able to see Category, A, B
and C. If you are applying through Category A then you have to appear in a test (conducted by NTS in
Pakistan) and you also have to apply through Embassy and cultural exchange authorities. Select
Category A if you have pre-admission letter from your university in China and apply through
dispatching authorities. Now it comes to second category which is category B. This is the most
commonly used category in CSC applications. Here you do not need to go through dispatching
authorities. Those who are applying directly in university through Chinese university program (CUP)
or commonly known Chinese government scholarship program (CGS) are required to fill their form
by selecting Category B. Category C is not recommended due to partial scholarship so I am not going
to discuss it here. After selecting category, you have to give agency number. Here you give agency
number of your targeted university and click anywhere out of the slot (See agency number in this
document to know about all agency numbers and also take help from google). After clicking outside,
name of your university will appear in 3rd slot. Save that data and start filling your form. After
completing submit it. Your CSC form can be edited hundreds of the times so don’t worry if you have
committed a mistake.
Now the 2nd turn is about university application. Here one thing is important that all universities do
not take online application. Few universities take only CSC application and rest will be required to fill
their perspective forms on given online links. You have to study about it on your targeted university
website that either it takes online applications or only CSC application will be enough. If your
university takes online application then click it’s given link for online application, create an account,
verify your email address and start filling its form and finally submit it.
After submission of both form, download these forms in PDF and take prints. Sign these forms (For
CSC form, place your signature on last page) and take record. Now see the check list (you have
uploaded on university and CSC portal) and take prints of all attached documents. Make two sets of
your documents and then dispatch to international student office of your selected university. Here you
have to make it sure that your university requires hard copies or not. Few universities will not ask you
for hard copies. Another important thing is that, you have to be accurate when you take out address of
international student office from university website (see scholarships info on website of university to
collect address info for hard copies)
After downloading CSC and university online application forms refer to the check list and arrange all
other attachments which you have uploaded in online application. For example, you have uploaded
transcript, degree, passport, research proposal etc so attach hard copies of these documents
accordingly. Here you have to be very careful about the set of hard copies. You need to send two
copies to the international student office of the targeted university. ISO addresses are given in the
scholarship section of all universities but if someone cannot find it then read FAQs on your selected
university website.
Scholarship Results
If you are selected, then you will be informed mid or at the end of Jun. University will send an email
to know your willingness in selected program and it will also ask you about the address for
documents. You have to confirm by replying their email within the given time. After the
confirmation, University will send visa documents to your address provided in email and CSC form.
Make it sure that the address you have given is correct and Zip code is included it in. Also provide
those mobile numbers which are switched on all the time. After the confirmation, University will
deliver your documents on given address in 8-10 days.
Medical Reports
If you are selected and got visa documents, then you have to go through the medical treatment before
leaving your country. There are some authorized medical Centre in Pakistan (Student of other
countries can check their own authorized centers), access any Centre and go through the medical
checkup. If you are applying through Islamabad offices, then there is a Chinese medical Centre
available in Islamabad. You can go there for the former medical checkup. If you know about any
disease which already exists, then it is recommended not to apply until unless you recover your health
condition to be eligible for Chinese Visa. It will cost 10-12000 Pakistani Rupees if you go for the
medical checkup in authorized Chinese Centre. Get these reports before submitting your documents in
embassy.
The most important element related to MFA Pakistan need to be discussed here. You will find lot of
people during these days sleeping outside of embassy to submit their documents. Students go there at
night and stay in lines for many hours. Many bring their own mosquito nets with them because they
have to spend their nights under the open sky in-front of embassy. Your will finally get your desired
scholarship but you have to suffer due to the overwhelming situation with visa applicants and poor
management. You will be lucky if you your turn comes and you become able to submit your
documents successfully. Get token and submit your documents inside of embassy office. Now you
have to wait for 2,3 days. Embassy will return your documents after the necessary scrutiny.
Personal Introduction
I am Syed Attique Uz Zaman from Kashmir. I have recently done Master Degree (16 Years) in
international relations from National University of Modern Languages (NUML) Islamabad. Besides
of my studies, I have been working in different departments since 2011. It is really hard to keep your
education continue if you have to work in an office for more than 8 hours but passion, diligence and
devotions make your capable of dealing with such hazards. There might be many mistakes in this
documents because I could not manage time to re-read it. I am thankful to all of my teachers, family
members and friends who encouraged me throughout the way to write something that can impact
positively. I want maximum students to get these opportunities abroad because I think that lack of
education in our society is the major reason of our vulnerability throughout in the world. If you want
to suggest or add anything then send me an email on the address given in footnote. It would be an
honor to hear from you. Wish you best of luck, love you All.