Japan : Tsukuba Scholarship for Undergraduate English Course Students

The University of Tsukuba invites applications from international students for the 2010 University of Tsukuba "Tsukuba Scholarship". The University of Tsukuba's "English Course Program", which will commence in the 2010 academic year, is newly established program through which international students studying at the University of Tsukuba at the undergraduate level can earn their academic degrees by taking classes only in English.

Application Qualifications and Conditions
Applicants for this scholarship must fulfill the following conditions:

• Nationality: Applicants whose nationality is of a country other than Japan (limited to those countries with which Japan has diplomatic relations).
• Applicants who fulfill the qualifications for entering the English Course Program in any of the following undergraduate schools:
• (reference) Courses to be established in 2010
• Undergraduate Program of International Social Studies, School of Social and International Studies
• Interdisciplinary Course of Life and Environmental Sciences, School of Life and Environmental Sciences
• Applicants who, upon entering the University of Tsukuba, do not receive nor expect to receive a scholarship or scholarships from any other scholarship-granting organizations or bodies for the purpose of studying abroad.

Duration of Scholarship
The duration of the scholarship will be from the first month of entering the university until the end of the applicable academic year (August 2010 to March 2011). From April 2011, students may apply for other scholarships from the University of Tsukuba or from other scholarship-granting organizations or bodies.

Scholarship Amount Details

• Travel expenses: The scholarship will pay a uniform amount of 100,000 yen for travel expenses to Japan from abroad when entering the University of Tsukuba. However, this travel expense payment is limited to those recipients who will be newly coming to Japan from abroad for the purposes of entering the University of Tsukuba.
• Monthly stipend: Scholarship recipients will receive one of the following monthly stipends based on their results in the entrance examination etc.
  • Class 1:100,000 yen per month
  • Class 2: 60,000 yen per month
• Enrollment fee and first-year tuition exemptions: In addition to the above noted travel expenses and monthly stipend, scholarship recipients will receive exemptions from paying their enrollment fee (a one-time only fee of 282,000 yen) and their first-year tuition (from August 2010 to March 2011, 357,200 yen), for a total of 639,200 yen.

Application Period
Applicants for this scholarship should send by mail the "2010 University of Tsukuba 'Tsukuba Scholarship' Application Form" to the following address during the application period indicated in the application guidelines for the English Course Program. Please note that application documentation arriving later than the prescribed application period will not be accepted.

Address for submitting application documentation:
International Student Center
University of Tsukuba
Tennodai 1-1-1
Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki-ken JAPAN
305-8577

Inquiries Regarding the Tsukuba Scholarship for 2010
Inquiries may be directed to:
The Division of International Students
Department of Global Activities
University of Tsukuba
Tel: +81-29-853-6086
Fax: +81-29-853-6204
Email: isc-somu@un.tsukuba.ac.jp

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