NIG Global Scholar (NIG-GS) Selection
*Application Guidelines for next fiscal year are updated every summer.
Outline
The NIG-GS system allows applicants for our 5-year PhD program to be considered for superior financial support. Admission to NIG-GS requires the Genetics Program, SOKENDAI is the applicant’s first-choice for graduate studies and residing outside Japan at the time of application. Please see “Application Guidelines” for details
A limited number of NIG-GS applicants who pass the tertiary screening and satisfy certain conditions will be offered a monthly stipend (approx. 140,000 JPY), education fees, and airfare to and from Japan at the beginning and upon completion of the program on the condition that he/she remains a student in good standing.
Please see “Financial Support” for details.
Other applicants who pass the tertiary screening will be offered partial financial support equivalent to students enrolled through General Admission.
Note
This year, SOKENDAI apply for the Japanese government (MEXT) scholarship program “The International Priority Graduate Programs (PGP)” that supports this NIG-GS program, and the results from MEXT are supposed to be announced around the end of November 2024. On one hand, if the program is adopted, we can recommend the selected applicants as MEXT scholarship recipients to the MEXT. On the other hand, if the program is rejected, applicants can choose to continue admission process to aim to enroll in SOKENDAI as privately financed students or withdraw from the admission. Applicants will be kept informed of the status of scholarship program.
For your reference, the adoption rates of graduate school for the past three years of “The International Priority Graduate Programs (PGP)” are as follows.
Fiscal Year 2023: 91.2％
Fiscal Year 2022: 92.9%
Fiscal Year 2021: 90.4%
Selection Schedule
Please see the “Application Guidelines” and “Schedule of Admissions” for details.
Application Guidelines and Forms
Application Guidelines Financial Support (Appendix) About MEXT GPA CEFR Equivalency Chart
Application Form
Statement of Purpose (Form 2) Books, papers, or lectures that were particularly interesting to you (Form 14-1)
* Applicants who passed the Secondary Screening are required to submitt Form 7 . Field of Study and Research Plan (Form 7)
Online Examination, Admission Decision and Past Exams
Online Examination of Tertiary Screening will be conducted simultaneously with the winter examination of “General Admission”. You can refer to “Entrance Examination”, “Admission Decision” and “Past Exams” described in the “General Admission” webpage.
