Singapore's Ministry of Education runs this to bring teenagers from across ASEAN into its own schools, and it funds them properly: school fees, hostel accommodation with an annual allowance, a settling-in allowance, airfare home and back, the O-Level and A-Level examination fees once, and subsidised medical cover.
No figures are published. The Ministry lists what it pays for rather than what it pays, so the value of the package depends on the fees and boarding costs of the school a scholar is placed in.
Which door you come in through depends on your country. Brunei and Malaysia open Secondary 1, Secondary 3 and Pre-university 1. Thailand opens Secondary 3 and Pre-university 1. Indonesia opens Secondary 1 and Secondary 3. Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, the Philippines and Vietnam open Secondary 3 alone. A scholarship taken at Secondary 1 runs six years, at Secondary 3 four years, and at Pre-university 1 two years, all ending in the Singapore-Cambridge GCE A-Level or an equivalent.
The windows differ too, and by months rather than days. Applications open in January for Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam, and in April for Cambodia, Lao PDR and Myanmar.
Selection is not on paper alone. Shortlisted candidates sit tests and then an interview, held in cities in their own country when enough candidates come forward, so the process reaches students who could not travel to Singapore to compete.
Renewal is annual and rests on school performance, so the award has to be held rather than merely won.
The scholarship pages were checked on 16 September 2026, when applications for every country were closed.