Reservation Program For Monbukagakusho Honors Scholarship For Privately Financed International Students
Scholarship amount |
JPY 48,000 per month (The amount is subject to change each year. For reference, the monthly stipend for the 2019 school year was JPY 48,000) |
Eligibility / conditions for applying |
Those taking the English version of the Mathematics (Course 1 or 2), Science, or Japan & the World tests are also eligible to apply. |
Note 1: | Those enrolling in a graduate school are not eligible to participate in this reservation program. |
Note 2: | If a particular subject test combination is taken by a very small number of examinees, there may be cases where no scholarship candidates will be selected from that group. |
Note 3: | Applicants will be considered for selection on the basis of the subjects they indicated on their EJU Examination application form, regardless of whether they are not taking certain subject tests. |
Duration of scholarship |
After a scholarship has been reserved for an applicant, it is awarded for a certain period that is based on the time that the applicant enrolls in a Japanese university undergraduate school, junior college, a college of technology (3rd grade and above), or specialized training college. |
For enrollments initiated by October 2019 (June 2019 EJU examinees only)
Six months, from October 2019 to March 2020 |
For enrollments initiated between November 2019 and April 2020 (June and November 2019 EJU examinees) Twelve months, from April 2020 to March 2021 |
For enrollments initiated between May and October 2020 (November 2019 EJU examinees only) Six months, from October 2020 to March 2021 |
Application procedures |
In order to be considered for reservation, applicants need to mark a circle in the appropriate box on the EJU Examination application form. |
Selection |
The following conditions will decide the reservation recipients among candidates for this scholarship.
|
Notification of the selection results |
Applicants selected for the scholarship will be notified with the Reservation Notice for Monbukagakusho Honors Scholarship for Privately Financed International Students (hereafter, “Reservation Notice”) to the address which examinees wrote on the EJU Examination application form. |
Acceptance of scholarship |
In order to be able to claim their scholarships, candidates need to submit their Reservation Notice and the prescribed scholarship application to their host university/college, which will forward the documents to JASSO. Please note that anyone who changes affiliation (by transferring to another school, etc.) after being selected as a scholarship recipient cannot receive the scholarship again as a reservation holder, even if affiliation changed during the scholarship payment period indicated in section “Duration of scholarship”) |