Monbukagakusho Scholarship is a prestigious scholarship given by the Monbukagakusho. The Japanese Government started it in 1954 and about 65,000 students of near about 160 countries and regions have studied in Japan. Under this Scholarship program there are seven types of scholarships that are awarded by Japanese Government to those for research students, teacher training students, undergraduate university students, Japanese studies students, college of technology students, special training students and YLP students.
Research students: Student should be a college graduate and under 35 years of age or must have completed 16 years of schooling. This programs allows the recipients to apply for a Graduate Degree Program and that they passed their assigned University's entrance examination.
Teacher training students: The candidate should be graduate and under 35 years of age and have at most five years of experience as a teacher in a primary, secondary or teacher training college in their own country.
Undergraduate university students: The applicant should have completed 12 years of school education and at least 17 and less than 22 years of age.120 students each year are enrolled by embassy advice. Going toward a 4-year undergraduate program at one of 87 Japanese national universities the two half of the contingent undergoes a 1-year preparatory program at Osaka University Center for Japanese language and culture and Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.
Japanese studies students: The applicant should be undergraduate students in faculties or schools chiefly in Japanese language or Japanese culture in a university outside Japan at the time when they come to Japan and must be enrolled in the home institution at the time when they return to their home countries. Except Japanese language or Japanese culture those who want to study different aspects of Japan such as engineering, economy, agriculture, architecture, art, etc. should apply to the JASSO for admission to the Short-term Student Exchange Promotion Program.
College of technology students: The applicant should have completed their school education or equivalent to high school and at least 17 and less than 22 years of age.
Special training college students: The applicant should have completed 12 years of schooling or have completed school education comparable to a Japanese high school and at least 17 and under 22 years of age.
Young Leaders' Program (YLP) students: The applicant must be university or college graduates and have 3 to 5 years work experiences in public administration. The recommended authorities select them.
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Embassy recommendation: Japanese embassy selected the scholars. Research student, Undergraduate student, College of technology student, and Special training college student recruitment for the next financial year is made between March and May. The initial written test and interview is made at the embassy between June and August. In the beginning of September the embassy then recommends the selected candidates to the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Teacher training and Japanese studies student recruitment for the next financial year is made between December of the previous year and the following February. The selection is done between mid-February and March and by end of April selected candidates are recommended to the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
University recommendation: Japanese studies students and Research students will be studying in Japan as an exchange student based on inter-university student exchange agreements can be selected by the national, public or private Japanese university for Japanese Government Scholarship. The research students selected by Japanese government mostly arrive in Japan in October and the selected candidates to the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology by mid-April.
Domestic Selection: In the beginning of April the domestic selection scholarships are granted to privately financed, full-time postgraduate foreign students, prospective postgraduate students, and full-time, prospective fourth-year undergraduate university students. Universities will see their students academic and personal excellence and recommend them by mid-December as government-sponsored scholarship candidates to the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.
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