Based on the Regulations of the Ministry of Education in Taiwan, our degree candidates must be officially registered students of either the Chemistry Department of National Tsing Hua University, or alternatively, the Physics Department of National Central University. Students who enter the MST program with a B.S. degree should enroll first as a pre-Ph.D. student till they are approved by a committee to enroll in the Ph.D. program (see below). Upon successful completion of the program, each student will be conferred a Ph.D. degree by the partner university and a certificate jointly signed by the President of Academia Sinica and the Director of TIGP.