Huayu Enrichment Scholarship

What it pays

• Amount NT$28,000 a month. This rate started with 2025 summer courses.
• Tuition No tuition grant is listed.
• Insurance The language center may deduct insurance premiums from the monthly payment.
• Payment Paid around the middle of each month, to recipients whose attendance and results meet the rules.

How long it lasts

A two-month summer course (June and July, or July and August), or a course of 3, 6 or 9 months, or one year. Apart from summer courses, study must fall between September 1 of the award year and August 31 of the next. If you can't come in that period, you lose the scholarship and can't defer it. The period can't be interrupted.

Who can apply

Foreign nationals aged 18 or over who have finished secondary school or studied at post-secondary level, with an excellent academic record and good moral character. People from mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau can't apply. You also can't apply if any of these is true:

• You are an overseas compatriot student, or you hold an R.O.C. (Taiwan) passport.
• You are studying Chinese in Taiwan now, or you have taken a degree program in Taiwan before.
• You have received a Huayu Enrichment Scholarship, a TUSA Global Ambassador Scholarship or a Taiwan Scholarship before.
• You are an exchange student studying or researching in Taiwan now under a university cooperation agreement.
• You are studying or researching in Taiwan now with a scholarship or financial help from a Taiwan government agency or Taiwan school.

The diploma and academic record conditions don't apply to people recommended or selected by a foreign government or institution under an education cooperation agreement.

How to apply

• Where The Taiwan embassy, consulate or representative office for your country of nationality, or the one responsible for your country.
• Deadline Set by each office in its own guidelines. Offices publish their guidelines by January 31 each year, usually in January or February.
• Selection By document review or interview, as each office's guidelines say.
• Language center You apply separately to an MOE-approved Chinese language center at a university. Centers reply by June 15. Once admitted, send a copy of the admission notice to the office by June 30, or you are treated as having given up the scholarship.
• Results Offices send their recipient lists by April 30 for summer courses and by July 31 for all others.

For the 2027 round, no announcement was on the program site when we checked. Offices publish their 2027 guidelines by January 31, 2027. Unlike the Taiwan Scholarship, there is no single national application window.

Documents

• An application form.
• A copy of your passport or other proof of nationality.
• A copy of your highest diploma and transcripts.
• Proof that you applied to a Chinese language center, such as a copy of the application form.
• Anything else your office asks for. Offices can add their own documents, so read your office's guidelines.

Rules while you hold it

• At least 15 hours of required language classes a week. Cultural visits, lectures and private study don't count.
• Missing 12 or more hours of required classes in a month stops one month's payment.
• For scholarships of 6 months or more: an average below 80 stops one month's payment in the next term. Below 80 for two terms in a row, the scholarship is revoked.
• For scholarships of 9 months or more: if you had no TOCFL (Test of Chinese as a Foreign Language) Band B Level 3 result from the previous two years when you applied, you must take the test in Taiwan, at your own cost, and give the result to the center at least one month before the scholarship ends. Otherwise one month's payment stops.
• No results for a term (except for serious illness or accident), not collecting the scholarship in the payment period, breaking Taiwan's laws, or a serious breach of school rules can also mean the scholarship is revoked.
• Only one-year recipients can change language centers, once, after at least one term.
• Getting any other scholarship or financial help at the same time cancels the scholarship, and you repay the overlapping months.
• After six months in Taiwan with an ARC (Alien Resident Certificate), you must join National Health Insurance. Before that, you need other medical, accident and student insurance.
• The program site says HES recipients may work only if they study for six months or more.

Good to know: holding an HES affects other scholarships. If your HES is ever revoked, you can't apply for the MOE Taiwan Scholarship. If you have been awarded an HES, you can't choose the Mandarin program under the MOFA Taiwan Scholarship. → Taiwan Scholarship

Questions

Does the Huayu Enrichment Scholarship pay tuition?

No tuition grant is listed. The scholarship is NT$28,000 a month, and the language center may deduct insurance premiums from it.

Can I get it if I already had a Taiwan Scholarship?

No. Anyone who has previously received a Huayu Enrichment Scholarship, a TUSA Global Ambassador Scholarship or a Taiwan Scholarship cannot apply.

When is the deadline?

There is no single national deadline. Each Taiwan office abroad sets its own and publishes its guidelines by January 31 each year.

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Sources (7)

Checked November 2026.Show

Ministry of Education, Operation Directions Governing the Ministry of Education Huayu Enrichment Scholarships (amended February 4, 2025; Chinese text) and Operation Directions Governing the Ministry of Education Taiwan Scholarships. Taiwan Scholarship and Huayu Enrichment Scholarship Program: home, scholarship guidelines and comparison table, FAQ. Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Guidelines for the MOFA Taiwan Scholarship Program.