IGPAS Application Booklet 2024	[Reference] PDF [5.34MB]

MEXT (Japanese Government) Scholarship for IGPAS 2023, 2024, and 2025 Admission
Master's Program: 7 students for 2 years

The MEXT (Japanese Government) Scholarship opportunities are available to the master's program IGPAS applicants for 2023, 2024, and 2025 admission, who successfully pass the entrance examination with excellent performance. For more details on the MEXT scholarship conditions assigned for IGPAS, please click here.

IGPAS 2024

Program begins: October 1, 2024 (2024 Fall Semester)

*Dates are subject to change.

• Step 1: Find a potential supervisor among the faculty members in the field of your interest.
  Applications will not be accepted without the consent of a faculty member as a prospective supervisor. The supervisor must be a professor, an associate professor, or a lecturer (senior assistant professor) who is affiliated with or has eligibility to accept students of the Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University. To search for faculty members, refer to the following websites:
  
  -- Tohoku University Researchers
  https://www.r-info.tohoku.ac.jp/#/?lang=en
  Make sure to select "Graduate School of Science" in the "Affiliation" for finding your prospective supervisor.
  
  -- Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University
  https://www.sci.tohoku.ac.jp/english/
  
  -- Departmental websites
  

  Mathematics http://www.math.tohoku.ac.jp/english/index-e.html
  Physics http://www.phys.tohoku.ac.jp/en/
  Astronomy https://www.astr.tohoku.ac.jp/en/
  Geophysics https://www.gp.tohoku.ac.jp/index-en.html
  Chemistry http://www.chem.tohoku.ac.jp/english/
  Earth Science http://www.es.tohoku.ac.jp/EN/

• Step 2: Contact the faculty members directly via email and obtain their consent.
  When contacting the faculty members, be sure to:
  -- gather information on the faculty members and their field of research in advance by checking out their publications, research papers, and personal websites.
  -- include "IGPAS 2024" in the subject line of your email.
  -- provide your academic background, interest, and goal in detail.
• Step 3: Register online via the IGPAS Pre-Application Form. 【CLOSED】
  * The online form opens from October 16 to November 28, 2023, JST.
• Step 4: Prepare the required documents for the application.
  Regarding two recommendation letters, each reference should send Form 5 with a recommendation letter directly to the IGPAS Admissions Office via email.
• Step 5: Send your application via the IGPAS Online Form. 【CLOSED】
  * The online form opens from November 1 to November 30, 2023, JST.
  If you are unable to access the online form, please send your application documents to the IGPAS Admissions Office via email.
  
  [NOTE]
  * The IGPAS Admissions Office will inform the confirmation of having received the uploaded application documents along with your application number via email.
  * Some documents sent for the IGPAS 2024 application need to be submitted in original at the time of the admission procedures in September 2024.

Applications will be forwarded to the examining committee of each department. The examiner will inform you of the method and schedule for the examination via email by the middle of January 2024. The examination will be in the form of a written examination and an interview.
The results of admission to IGPAS will be announced on February 8, 2024, on the website.

Application Forms (IGPAS 2024)