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Profile of International Students Given MOE’s Tuition Grant

Published on: 06 Oct 2026

NewsParliamentary replies

Name and Constituency of Member of Parliament

Ms Gho Sze Kee, Mountbatten

Question

To ask the Minister for Education for each of the past five years, how many international students have been awarded the Ministry of Education (MOE) Tuition Grant, broken down by broad field of study and institution.

Response

  1. From 2021 to 2025, an average of about 1,100 international students per cohort at the Polytechnics and Arts Institutions received the Ministry of Education (MOE) Tuition Grant. The corresponding figure for the Autonomous Universities was about 1,700 international students. These students are enrolled in a range of fields of study.