SOKENDAI International Priority Graduate Program ("SOKENDAI-PGP") is inviting applications for Japanese Government Scholarships (MEXT Scholarships) to provide outstanding international students with an opportunity to pursue doctoral degrees through our academic program.

• Admission Date: October 1, 2019
• Types of Programs: five-year and three-year doctoral programs
• Number of Scholarships Available: there are eight scholarships in total: five for the five-year doctoral program and three for the three-year doctoral program.

• Program Outline
  This MEXT scholarship is offered for the special program "Interdisciplinary PhD Program on AI and Data Science for Global Leaders", which has been granted to SOKENDAI by MEXT. The program aims at developing next-generation global researchers and highly skilled professionals who should lead researches on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Data Science (DS) as well as many scientific fields that apply AI and DS. The Department of Informatics of SOKENDAI, as one of the member departments of the program, will accept outstanding students for 3-year and 5-year Ph.D. programs who wish to study in AI and/or DS fields under the name of this program. For this program, application is open to anybody who has any nationality of a county that has diplomatic relations with Japanese government. However, based on the strategy by Japanese government on accepting foreign students to gain from the advancements of other countries, around 50% of the positions are to be reserved for applicants from Southeast Asian countries in this program.
• Monbukagakusho: MEXT (the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology) Scholarship
  The MEXT scholarship provides one round-trip airfare to Japan and a monthly stipend, in accordance with the regulations of MEXT. MEXT scholarship recipients are not expected to pay any entrance examination, admission, or tuition fees. For details of the qualifications required and scholarship benefits, please refer to the application guidelines listed below.
• Selection Details For details of the selection procedures for each department (including application deadlines, documents, and methods of selection), please refer to the application guidelines listed below.
  

  School of Multidisciplinary Sciences

  • Department of Statistical Science

    Parent Research Institution

    • The Institute of Statistical Mathematics
    • Professors

    Program and Application Period

    Three-year doctoral program

    • TBA

    Five-year doctoral program

    • TBA

    Guidelines and Forms

    • TBA

  • Department of Polar Science

    Parent Research Institution

    • National Institute of Polar Research
    • Professors

  • Department of Informatics

    Parent Research Institution

    • National Institute of Informatics
    • Professors

    Program and Application Period

    Three-year doctoral program

    • October 2019 admission: December 19 to December 25, 2018

    Five-year doctoral program

    • October 2019 admission: December 19 to December 25, 2018

    Guidelines and Forms

    • Application Guideline
    • Checklist
    • AppendixAbout-Mext-GPA
    • Application_Form1
    • Application_Form2
    • Field of Study and Research Plan

  School of Life Science

  • Department of Genetics

    Parent Research Institution

    • National Institute of Genetics
    • Professors

  • Department of Basic Biology

    Parent Research Institution

    • National Institute for Basic Biology
    • Professors

    Program and Application Period

    Three-year doctoral program

    • October 2019 Admission: December 14, 2018 to January 7,2019

    Guidelines and Forms

    • Application Guideline
    • Checklist
    • AppendixAbout-Mext-GPA
    • Application_Form1
    • Application_Form2
    • Field of Study and Research Plan

  • Department of Physiological Sciences

    Parent Research Institution

    • National Institute for Physiological Sciences
    • Professors

    Program and Application Period

    Three-year doctoral program

    • October 2019 admission: December 14 to December 25, 2018

    Five-year doctoral program

    • October 2019 admission: December 14 to December 25, 2018

    Guidelines and Forms

    • Application Guideline
    • Checklist
    • AppendixAbout-Mext-GPA
    • Application_Form1
    • Application_Form2
    • Field of Study and Research Plan