The information below is for 2017 Enrolment (The application has been closed).

For 2018 Enrolment, the conditions of application will be changed

and please wait for the updated information for 2018 Enrolment.

Number of Applicants to be Admitted

• Approximately 5 students are admitted to the course.

Eligibility for Application

• Applicants who have already obtained or will obtain a Master’s degree including MBA by the enrollment day at Kyoto University.

• Applicants who are enrolled or were enrolled at universities in China, Hong Kong or Taiwan are required to go through the screening process by Admissions Assistance Office (AAO). Please refer to the following web page for more detail.

http://www.kyoto-u.ac.jp/zh-cn/education-campus/international/students1/aao.html (Chinese)

Application and Selection Procedure:

• For your application, please carefully read the Application Form, the Application Guidelines, and the Frequently Asked Questions and Answers.
  If you still have questions, you may contact us at eac [at] econ.kyoto-u.ac.jp. We only respond to those inquiries to which answers cannot be found in the Guidelines and FAQ.
• The application period is from 1st to 30th April 2017. The digital version of application documents (see below) must be sent to the Programme Committee’s e-mail (eac[at]econ.kyoto-u.ac.jp).
• Those applicants who are required to go through the AAO screening process, have to make contact with the AAO in advance as well as with the Programme Committee. Please note that it will take a few weeks to receive feedback from the AAO office, and therefore the AAO procedure should be started at least two weeks before the deadline.
• In the meanwhile, the applicants are required to communicate with and get an approval from their prospective supervisor(s), who must be chosen from the faculty and collaborative members of the Graduate School of Economics. (Faculty Members List)
• Only after applicants successfully get an approval from their prospective supervisor(s), they may submit application documents to the Programme Committee via email.
• In case applicants cannot find an appropriate supervisor(s), they can be advised by the Programme Committee on a possible and appropriate supervisor(s) based on their research proposal. In that event, such applicants can submit application documents via email to the Programme Committee by 30th April 2017 without naming a prospective supervisor(s), but must obtain a prospective supervisor(s)’s approval according to the advice by the Programme Committee by 16th May 2017.
• Applicants who have gone through the supervisor matching process, they will be contacted by the Programme Committee to submit a hard copy of the submitted documents to the Student Affairs Office of the Graduate School of Economics (Yoshida Honmachi, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto City, 606-8501, JAPAN) by 29th May 2017.
• The applicants at this stage are required to pay an examination fee (JPY30,000) prior to attending an interview. Because credit card payment is not available for this procedure, please follow the following instruction for the payment of examination fee:

1. Make a bank transfer of the fee of JPY30,000.
– Bank Name: Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation
– Branch: Kyoto Branch
– Bank Address: 8 Naginataboko-cho Karasuma-higashiiru Shijo-dori, Shimogyo-ku,
Kyoto 600- 8008, Japan
– SWIFT Code: SMBCJPJT
– Beneficiary: National University Corporation, Kyoto University
– Account No.: 496-8089296
– Address of Beneficiary: Yoshida-honmachi, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan

2. After making the transfer, send the scanned copy of the bank remittance form to the Programme Committee’s e-mail address (eac[at]econ.kyoto-u.ac.jp) by 29th May 2017.

3. Note that there may be additional surcharges at the local bank or intermediary banks where the transfer is done. Make sure that the final amount deposited into the Sumitomo Mitsui bank account is not less than JPY30,000.

• A team of faculty staff will interview each candidate via Skype, starting from 30th May to the beginning of June. Those successfully selected will be informed of the decision on 15th June 2017. All procedures will be conducted in English.
• The successfully selected applicants are required to pay an admission fee (JPY282,000) and tuition fee (JPY535,800/year), which has to be done on time. Any student can apply for the tuition fee waiver scheme, a JASSO’s Scholarship for Privately Financed International Students, and/or other scholarships by private foundations (note: international students from non-OECD countries have the high probability for tuition fee waiver). The detailed instruction will be given to the students in August or September 2017.
• Applicants who are already granted the MEXT Scholarship for master’s degree studies at other universities, can extend the scholarship for doctoral degree studies so as to apply for our doctoral programme. Please ask necessary procedures at the administrative office in your university.
• Applicants of the PhD programme are not qualified to apply for the “University Recommendation” category of the Japanese Government (MEXT) Scholarship. Therefore, successful applicants would have to enroll as privately-funded students unless they received a MEXT Scholarship under “Embassy Recommendation”, or an equivalent scholarship offered by their governments. Please note that there are possibilities to get some other private scholarships, about which you have to find out by yourself.

Application Documents to be Submitted

1. Application Form
2. Curriculum Vitae
3. Reasons for Application, Research Proposal, and Plan after Programme Completion. The research proposal must be well structured according to a standard academic style (for example, it would include the background of research, research objectives, literature survey, research questions, methodology, expected results and implications, and reference list). It must also be approximately five A4 pages in length.
4. Transcript of Academic Record of your Master’s study from the institute previously attended. In case the original transcript is in languages other than Japanese and English, a translated document in Japanese or English must be attached.
5. Applicants whose first language is other than English are required to submit a photocopy of official notice of TOEFL or IELTS scores taken within two years before the application deadline.
6. Certificate(s) of Graduation from the graduate school(s) previously attended. If you are a currently enrolled student, please include a certificate of expected graduation. In case the original certificate is in languages other than English and Japanese, a translated document in English or Japanese must be attached.
7. Letter of Recommendation from an applicant’s supervisor, the dean, or the head of the institute attended. The letter can be sent directly from an applicant’s supervisor to the Programme Committee.
8. Reference Paper such as Master’s thesis or an equivalent paper. If the paper is written in languages other than English, a translated summary in English must be attached.