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Admission with MEXT Scholarship (University Recommendation under the Special Program) for the Department of Mechanical Engineering , Materials Science, and Ocean Engineering

The Department of Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, and Ocean Engineering of the Graduate School of Engineering Science is recruiting international students who want to enroll in Doctoral or Master's Program in October 2025 through the MEXT* Scholarship (Research Student by University Recommendation under the Special Program).

International students enrolled in this special program belong to the PED** program and emphasize an internship while studying.
The objective of the program is to develop key players who will become immediate assets and leaders in heavy industry digital transformation in both in Japan and countries with rapid gorowth recently.

*MEXT: Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology, Japan, (Monbukagakusho)

**PED(Pi-type Engineering Degree) Program : Practical education is offered in a combination of modules, each of which systematically integrates a studio (laboratory courses, exercises, and training related directly to manufacturing and conducted in a small team) with related lecture courses.
In master's programs, studio deliverables are mainly used to prepare portfolios in place of a master's thesis.

For information about MEXT scholarship, Terms and Conditions, please refer the following PDF.
Mext Scholarship Terms and Conditions

Quota for Admission

Department Specialization Program Program Quota for Admission
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, and Ocean Engineering Mechanical
Engineering

Materials Science
Frontier

Systems Design for
Ocean-Space

※Process
Integration
(Master’s Program only)

※Aerospace
Engineering
(Master’s Program only)
PED Doctoral Program 2
Master's Program 3

Qualifications and Conditions

Applicants must fulfill the following qualifications and conditions;

Both Programs

Doctoral Program

Applicants willing to enroll in the Doctoral Program must satisfy the following academic requirements:

Master's Program

Applicants willing to enroll in the Master's Program must satisfy the following academic requirements:

*** : Applicants must have demonstrated that their grade point average is 2.30 (out of 3.00) or above in the current degree program attending (if applicants are pursuing the degree program) or the last degree program graduated/completed (if applicants have already graduate/completed the degree program). They must also be expected to maintain the equivalent level during the scholarship period.
**** : Applicants must have obtained an English language proficiency test score that is equivalent to CEFR level B2 or higher, or have been awarded or expect to be awarded by the time of enrollment an bachelor’s degree (in case of applying for a master’s program) or master’s degree (in case of applying for a doctoral program) from an institution where the medium of instruction was in English Or applicants will be judged by YNU, possessing a level of proficiency in either English equivalent to CEFR level B2 or higher.

Application Procedure / Application Documents

Application Procedure

First of all, applicants are required to contact their prospective supervisors prior to the application.
In addition, international students must ask them to get the provisional acceptance.

The following links provide the lists of faculty members in the graduate school. You are required to choose your supervisors who will be suitable for your research field, find their email addresses on the lists, and contact them on your own. If you cannot find the email addresses of your prospective supervisors, please email the Graduate School of Engineering Science Section at the following address:
mext-eng-mmo@
* Please put up "ynu.ac.jp" after "@" in the above email addresses.

Once applicants contact your prospective supervisors and get the provisional acceptance, you should send all Application Documents by email to one of the Specialization they wish to enroll.

Please note that applicants must prove in “(5) Academic Performance Entry Sheet (by Excel)” that they have a grade point average of 2.30 (out of 3.00) or above.
Please note that applicants must prove in “(10) Documents that demonstrate the linguistic ability of the applicants” that they must have obtained an English language proficiency test score that is equivalent to CEFR level B2 or higher.

Applicants are not required to submit the original documents (or the certified true copies issued by public institutions such as the applicant’s university) at the time of application, the successful applicants who wishes to be recommended to MEXT must submit them during the designated submission period.

Application Documents

Selection Procedure

Selection will be screened by the Program based on the submitted documents. The evaluation of applications will be based on the applicant's academic achievements in the earlier degrees and research potential assessed from academic documents, recommendation letters, the field of interest and study plan.

During the selection process, the shortlisted candidates may be asked for an interview by email/Zoom or other suitable means. The result of selection will be notified to applicants by email by the middle of February.

The selected applicants may be asked to make some corrections or submit some extra documents for the official procedure. The lists of candidates selected by the Program will be sent to theMEXT for the final approval.

Important Dates to Remember

Schedule
Application deadline January 24, 2025
Notification of application results Middle of February,2025
Final Scholarship confirmation from MEXT Middle of June, 2025

Contact / Inquiry

The Graduate School of Engineering Science MEXT Scholarship Program :
  mext-eng-mmo@
* Please put up "ynu.ac.jp" after "@" in the above email address.
* Please put a hyphen between mext, eng, mmo.
* When sending inquiries or application forms, please include the email inquiry identification code at the beginning of the subject line.
  e.g. In case of requesting Mechanical engineering Inquiries, "machine_application for MEXTstudents scholarship program".

Department Specialization Identification code Contact person
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, and Ocean Engineering Mechanical Engineering
Aerospace Engineering
Process Integration
machine_
(need underscore after machine)
Associate Prof.
FUCHIWAKI Ohmi
Materials Science Frontier
Aerospace Engineering
Process Integration
material_
(need underscore after material)
Prof. HASEGAWA Makoto
Systems Design for Ocean-Space &
Aerospace Engineering
ocean_
(need underscore after ocean)
Prof. KAWAMURA Yasumi

*The office will be closed from 27 December 2024 to 5 January 2025 for a winter vacation.