Deadline: April 29, 2016
MEXT (Ministry of Education,
Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology) offers scholarships to international
students who wish to study at Japanese universities as research students under
the Japanese Government (MEXT) Scholarship Program for 2017 as stipulated
below.
Fields of Study:
Fields of study must be subjects
which applicants will be able to study and research at Japanese universities.
Eligibility:
- Nationality: Applicant must have the nationality of a country which has diplomatic relations with the Japanese government. Applicant who has Japanese nationality at the time of application will not be eligible.
- Age: Applicant must have been born on or after April 2,1982.
- Academic Background: Applicant must be a graduate from a Japanese university or have academic ability equal or superior to that of a Japanese university graduate. A person will be deemed to have academic ability equal or superior to that of a university graduate, if he/she:
- has completed or will complete a 16-year school curriculum in a foreign country (or an 18-year school curriculum if he/she desires to enroll in a doctoral course in the field of medicine, dentistry or veterinary science, or pharmacy which is founded on a 6-year department or faculty); or
- is or will be aged 22 or older and has taken an individual entrance qualification examination and has been judged by a graduate school as being equal or superior in academic ability to a university graduate (or 24 or older if he/she desires to enroll in a doctoral course in the field of medicine, dentistry or veterinary science, or pharmacy which is founded on a 6-year department or faculty).
Note: Eligible applicants include
those who otherwise satisfy or will satisfy qualification requirements for
admission to a Japanese graduate school.
Major Field of Study: Applicant should apply for the field of study he/she
studied at the previous university or any related field. Applicant must choose
a field on which he/she can receive education and perform research at the
university of his/her choice.
Note:
If the Applicant was a grantee of a
Japanese Government Scholarship in the past he/she will not be eligible for the
scholarship. Unless he/she has had at least three years of research or teaching
experience between the completion of the first scholarship and the start of the
second scholarship period. This exclusion will not apply to a research-student
applicant, who (i) as an international student in Japan received training in
Japanese studies at a university but graduated from his/her home university,
who (ii) was an international student in Japan under the Japan-Korea Joint
Government Scholarship Program for the Students in Science and Engineering Departments
or who (ⅲ)
was an international student in Japan under the Young Leaders Program.
Scholarship Benefits:
(Allowance: Under the fiscal 2012
budget, each grantee will be provided monthly with 143,000 yen (Research
Student course), 144,000 yen (students enrolled in a Master’s program or a
professional degree program), or 145,000 yen (students enrolled in a doctoral
program) (an additional monthly stipend of 2,000 or 3,000 yen may be provided
to those undertaking study or research in specially designated regions).
The other scholarship
benefits can be found in the guidelines.
Application Procedure:
Each applicant must submit one set
of the following documents to the Japanese diplomatic mission by the specified
date.
(1) Application (a prescribed form) ･1
(2) Application Form (Attachment) (a
prescribed form)･･ 1
(3) Study Program (Attachment) ･･ 1
(4) Photograph (4.5×3.5 cm, taken
within the past six months, upper body, full-faced, uncapped.
Write your name and nationality on
the reverse and paste it onto the application
forms. Digital photographs also
acceptable) ･･････2
(5) Academic transcript of the last
university attended (attested) ･････ 1
(6) Graduation certificate or degree
certificate of the last university attended (or an attested
document certifying that the
applicant will graduate from the school, where applicable) ･････1
(7) Abstract of last thesis ･･･････1
Note 1: These documents must be
written in either Japanese or English. A document written in any other language
must be attached with a Japanese or English translation.
Note 2: Photographs attached to the
original application must be originals; copies are not acceptable.
Note 3: Field of specialization and
research program documents should clearly describe the applicant’s own research
program because it will serve as important materials for placement of the
applicant at a university.
Note 4: The academic transcripts of
the last university attended should be prepared to show the grade scale applied
and the grades earned by the applicant on all the subjects studied for each
year studied at a university department/faculty and a graduate school. (A
degree certificate or a graduation certificate simply showing the ranking of
the applicant at graduation will not substitute for academic transcripts.)
Note 5: The graduation certificate
and the degree certificate obtained from the last university attended may be
substituted for by a photocopy thereof provided that the copy is attested by
the authorized person of the university.
Note 6: For abstracts of the thesis,
abstracts of the graduation thesis and presented papers will suffice. Please
note that these abstracts will be used as basic data for evaluation of the
applicant’s academic ability.
All the attachment can be found by
visiting the official page. Before application kindly read the Guidelines (MEXT Scholarship) carefully.
More detailed information on this
scholarship program is available at the Japanese diplomatic mission in your
country.
The application submission deadlines
and process of selection may differ from country to country. Please check from
the Embassy of Japan in your home country.