Scholarship: Japanese Government Scholarships

Location: Japan

Participating countries: International Students (Open for all nationality students)

Deadline:  May 13, 2019

Inquiries: scholarship-india@nd.mofa.go.jp

Costs: Fully Funded 100% Tuition fees + Round-trip airfare + Stipend of 144,000 Yen/ month

Scholarship Description

Japanese Government Scholarships, 2019 is funded by Government of Japan Government of Japan for International Students (Open for all nationality students). The scholarship allows Masters, PhD, Research level programm(s) in the field of Aerospace Engineering, Agriculture, Biology, Biotechnology, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Civil Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electronics, Engineering, Environmental Sciences, Fishery, Geoinformatics, Geology, Information Technology, Japan related Humanities, Japan related Social Science, Japanese Language, Material Science, Mathematical Sciences, Mechanical Engineering, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Physics taught at Japan Universities . The deadline of the scholarhip is May 13, 2019

Masters, PhD, Research:

Aerospace Engineering, Agriculture, Biology, Biotechnology, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Civil Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electronics, Engineering, Environmental Sciences, Fishery, Geoinformatics, Geology, Information Technology, Japan related Humanities, Japan related Social Science, Japanese Language, Material Science, Mathematical Sciences, Mechanical Engineering, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Physics
Eligibility Criteria:

1. For Research Student / Master’s Degree

Bachelor’s Degree in the relevant field with minimum 65% marks. The candidates should obtain their mark sheet and degree on or before 31st March 2020 for April 2020 batch and 30th September 2020 for October 2020 batch.

2. For Ph.D. Degree

Master’s degree in the relevant field with minimum 65% marks. Candidate having practical research/teaching/work experience after obtaining the prescribed qualification on or before 31st March 2020 for April 2020 batch and 30th September 2020 for October 2020 batch.

3. For Research Student/Master’s degree in Japanese Language

a) Students who have completed Bachelor’s degree / Master’s degree course in Japanese Language from a recognized university.

OR

b) Students who have completed Bachelor’s degree course in any subject from a recognized university and obtained N2 Certificate of the Japanese Language Proficiency Test (JLPT) conducted by the Japan Foundation.

4. For Ph.D. degree in Japanese Language

Students who have completed Master degree course in Japanese Language from a recognized university.

Application Procedure:

Preliminary Application form

The completed application form mentioning subject Research Studentand file name as field of study-name.docx (e.g. physics-amit.docx) should be sent to the Embassy through email as an attachment, by 13th May 2019.

Email id: scholarship-india@nd.mofa.go.jp

Applications received only on this email id will be considered as submitted application.

Note: The size of the file should not exceed 200KB.

Important Dates:

Application deadline: 13th May 2019
Application Screening: 3rd/4th week of May 2019
Notification of shortlisted candidates for Written Test and Interview on this web page: 1st/2nd week of June 2019
Written Test and Interview: 22 June, 23 June, 29 June, 30 June, 2019