Information can be accessed on the Institute’s website: Homepage > Student’s Corner > Scholarships and Grants page. Alternatively, students can come to the Student aAffairs Office (Room A119) or contact Ms Lei (8599 6465) for any enquiries.

Currently only “Macao Polytechnic Institute Alumni Association All-Rounders Scholarships” are open to all full-time students for application (students of master’s degree excluded). All the other scholarships are distributed according to students’ year-end academic performance (cumulative GPA). Generally speaking, students who rank high in the programme have higher chances of getting scholarships.

Cumulative GPA is the Total (credits x grade point average) ÷ Total credits. Whether or not a student will be awarded a scholarship depends on the cumulative GPA, not the GPA of any individual year.

Scholarship values depend on the value approved by the Institute and / or donated by sponsors; amounts vary from a few thousand to up to twenty thousand patacas.

Scholarships are distributed in three ways: 1) tuition fee reduction, 2) cash (cheques issued by sponsors), 3) subsidies for exchange programmes (coverage of part of or all of the expenses of the exchange programme).

All scores are computerized and positions are ranked via the system. Scholarships are offered according to the position a student holds in the programme. However, the Institute also has to ensure that the students getting the scholarships comply with the conditions required by the sponsors, such as major, place of origin, year of study etc. For example, a sponsor requires the scholarship to be offered to a 4th-year local graduate of the Visual Design Programme, and it happens that the second but not the first student in the programme is a local. The scholarship would then be awarded to the second student.

If a student has already received a scholarship with a full tuition fee reduction, any further scholarship awarded with tuition fee reduction will carry no more monetary value, but the award will be marked in the student’s record. If the additional scholarship awarded is offered in cash, a student is entitled to receive it as long as he/she meets the criteria for it.

The final list is confirmed around mid August every year. Successful students will receive a letter of notification and an invitation to the Scholarship Award Ceremony.