Tibetan program (TSP) for Masters Studies in USA, 2020

The US Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) is offering the Tibetan program (TSP) for the Indian and Nepalese students in the USA.

The Tibetan program (TSP), sponsored by ECA, is administered through a Cooperative Agreement with The Tibet Fund, in collaboration with the Central Tibetan Administration’s (CTA) Department of Education (DOE).

• Applicants should be born on or after January 1, 1985. You are required to submit a copy of your
  a birth certificate as proof of your age.
• Applicants must have completed at least four years of academic work after Class XII, including three
  years bachelor’s degree from a recognized university.
• Competitive applicants should score a minimum score of 55% in their Bachelor’s Degree and 55% in
  Master and Others.
• The TSP applicants in India will take the Institutional TOEFL test (ITP) on the same day after the
  General Written Test in Tibetan (GWTT) in Delhi and Bangalore. The TOEFL ITP test aims to assess
  the applicant’s English language ability before they sit for the final interview.
• Applicants must secure a minimum of 30 points out of 50 on the GWTT in order to move to the next level. The GWTT consists of multiple-choice questions and a section of translation.
• The ITP test locations and requirements will vary by country. The duration of the TOEFL ITP test is two
  hours and will be paper-based. Competitive applicants should obtain an approximate score of 550 on
  TOEFL ITP.
• The CTA DoE and The Tibet Fund expect to receive the ITP scores from the Educational Testing Service
  (ETS) within 30 days.