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来自 The University of Tokyo 的课程

Studying at Japanese Universities

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The University of Tokyo

Studying at Japanese Universities

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Are you interested in studying at Japanese universities? Do you want to learn about Japan’s university application and enrollment processes, as well as the types of programs on offer? This course will help you to both discover great programs offered by different Japanese universities and prepare a study plan through project-based learning. We introduce a number of options to match a variety of goals, from full degree to non-degree programs, programs taught in English, as well as short-term programs in Japan. During the course, international students at UTokyo will provide you with useful information and advice to start you on the path to studying in Japan. At the end of this course, you will produce a draft of your action plan for applying to Japanese universities. The overall goal of the course is to start you off on the right foot to a happy, productive and fulfilling student life in Japan!

从本节课中

Understanding the Process

In this module, we will talk about the different types of programs and also overview of the application process. There are different types of programs available in Japan, and their application processes and requirements are not the same. To find a good program that suits you, you’ll actually have to conduct a research on programs offered by Japanese universities and share your findings with others.

Various Types of Application8:00

Choosing Your School5:26

Student Voices part 25:50

与讲师见面

Yujin Yaguchi
Professor
College of Arts and Sciences
Yuko Itatsu
Associate professor
College of Arts and Sciences

[MUSIC]

The information online, actually you can find almost all the information

that you will need before coming to Japan and also to pursue your studies.

For example, you can know which are the masters available here,

the laboratories, the profile of the professors,

what could be the courses, the interesting courses, how is the living here,

and also the costs, and everything you will need.

So I think there are quite a lot of information that could be very useful for

all the future students who will come here.

>> Yeah, that's true, I agree.

I mean, in this Internet age, all the information is available online.

I also did the same thing, I went to the website, saw the professors I liked,

the kind of research they were doing, and ultimately, emailed one of them.

So it was just that simple and I think even all the information,

even about living here and the costs here and how to find a place to live.

Everything is available online these days so

I don't think it's a major issue to find any kind of information regarding Japan.

Everything is available in English

[MUSIC]

Yes, I think that the NHK radio has about 18 different languages.

I work in the auto service as well, and there's Spanish services, and

there's services in Thai, Chinese, Vietnamese, English.

So I think NHK World radio itself provides a lot of information about Japan,

in your own language that you are comfortable with.

So that's one good resource for knowing a lot about Japan.

>> One of the online information, for example, NHK, have provided

some materials to learn Japanese, also for Spanish speakers.

So I encourage all the students to study those materials, of course.

[MUSIC]

Well, in my case, the application process we have

to take into account all the requirements for

a specific field of research of master or doctoral course.

Because actually instead,

University of Tokyo has very different departments.

Each department have its, a specific procedure.

And of course, if you want to apply to another university,

it will be a completely different procedure.

So you have to take into account those requirements.

And especially, well, in my case, my country is very far from here so

I have to arrange all the material in advance.

Because the timing for to have these materials and

also to send here it takes more than two weeks.

It could be months, two or three months.

So that is very, very important.

Gather information online about all the requirements.

And you have to fulfill them and committed to have those on time, no?

>> Yeah, time is the biggest issue, I think, to be on time.

Yes, as you said, every department and

every graduate school has its own admission policy.

So even within the graduate school of engineering,

each department has a different policies

vis-à-vis whether you're staying in Japan, or

whether you're coming from abroad, whether you're Japanese, whether you're not.

And so, the regulations for admission procedures change with each department.

And so it's important that one goes through all the procedures online very

carefully because that's very important.

We both served as a research student but I know there are programs in which

you can enter directly, as it happened in Europe and America.

And so it depends on the department one is applying to, and

the program one is applying to here.

[MUSIC]

>> MEXT scholarship, many people know about it, so

that's why I chose this one to talk about, because I thought it's important.

So MEXT have two different kinds that you can apply for.

One is embassy recommendation,

you can apply to the Japanese embassy in your country.

And then they have another which is university recommendation.

You choose a professor, you go through the procedure.

First you select your lab and professor, then he applies for you for

the scholarship.

But I don't have much idea about that because I applied through embassy

recommendation.

So in my country, I'm from Bangladesh, so

the process was I needed to apply to the Education Ministry of Bangladesh.

And then they forward some application to the embassy and then the embassy takes

a written exam, and if you pass that exam, they will take an interview.

Yeah, and then if you pass the interview, then you choose the university.

So in that case, the simple part is first you receive the scholarship,

and then you apply for your university.

And that part is pretty easy because once you have the scholarship,

it's quite easy to because almost all the professor will accept you because you

already have the scholarship.

Yeah, so the procedure, it's a little complicated and

I feel like it varies from country to country and also department to department.

Like School of Engineering to School of Arts or Science.

So every school have their own office who deals with this particular scholarship.

>> But you could just choose where you liked because you could.

>> Yeah, because you could.

So when you have the scholarship it's like okay, I got the money, so-

>> [LAUGH]

>> Just take me here!

[MUSIC]

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