Fingers crossed, rightI kinda don't get that part with the budget cuts. This year the number of recommendations is lower and as far as the information given to us by the foundation, that covered the budget cuts. But then again considering "the vast amount" of information during the selection process........
Congratulations for the LOAs btw (I am getting the feeling that I am the only person who actually sent a single request for LOA, ne) and good luck
Fingers crossed, rightI kinda don't get that part with the budget cuts. This year the number of recommendations is lower and as far as the information given to us by the foundation, that covered the budget cuts. But then again considering "the vast amount" of information during the selection process........
Congratulations for the LOAs btw (I am getting the feeling that I am the only person who actually sent a single request for LOA, ne) and good luck
Guys, I've established an MSN chatting group with some active members in it of our pre-scholars of MEXT 2011 for faster news and discussion and others. If some of you guys use MSN messenger, I would be glad if you could send your msn account/ hotmail address to me so I could invite you into the chatting group!
Guys, I've established an MSN chatting group with some active members in it of our pre-scholars of MEXT 2011 for faster news and discussion and others. If some of you guys use MSN messenger, I would be glad if you could send your msn account/ hotmail address to me so I could invite you into the chatting group!
Thanks, Jophillia, jackboy, Cheryl, and bg2, looking forward to more!!!
PM me with the msn/hotmail address! Hehe!
I think yahoo mail account is fine! Please pm me of it.does it have to be msn? I haven't used mine for a long time because there are many viruses and spams in msn... Can you add YM account?
I'll send my msn but please don't stop sharing information in this topic...
This topic is an important reference to every person searching for MEXt scholarship information, so please keep on posting.
That's greatAs PeterSimon and Jophillia I have only one LOA (Keio was my choice)
That's greatWhich graduate school if it's OK to ask?
Oh and btw though it does say on the Keio web page that they give LoA to "only those who give the name of "Keio University" as your FIRST and ONLY choice on "Application Form (Attachment)"." It's not really true because mine had 2 more universities on it besides Keio (just in case)
Media and Governance!!!!!It's Media and Governance.
You had more universities other than Keio in your form and still got the LOA?
Thanks for the detailed info PeterSimon. I have checked again the budget plan that was just released by MEXT on their website. But I just found the info on the 4364 research student and 500 undergraduate student that they will take in the next year. As I've seen a certain budget amount allocated to the regional bonus, I guess they will still have the +2000 to 3000JPY regional bonus for MEXT students, right?MEXT has released further details from the budget request for 2011. They are as follows:
- the number of newly accepted scholarship foreign students will be decreased from 5980 to 4364 people (about 1600 less);
- the number of newly accepted students for the university graduate level will be 3594 people;
- the scholarship will be 150 000 yen for research students, 152 000 yen for master course and 153 000 yen for doctoral course;
Note that this is a budget request, not the final budget. The numbers in the end could be even smaller.
Thanks for the detailed info PeterSimon. I have checked again the budget plan that was just released by MEXT on their website. But I just found the info on the 4364 research student and 500 undergraduate student that they will take in the next year. As I've seen a certain budget amount allocated to the regional bonus, I guess they will still have the +2000 to 3000JPY regional bonus for MEXT students, right?
Anyway, I'm curious about the detailed info on the reduction of 2000JPY in general for all research student. Can you show me the link to the info on the scholarship amount next year on the website of MEXT?
Thanks in advance, again!
Yeah, you are right. It's in page 1005. Lucky that they haven't cut the regional bonus.It's on the budget request file (gaisan youkyuu), page 1000+ something, maybe 1006.
I'm actually surprised that they're only taking away 2000 yen. Considering that just 4 years ago the same scholarship was 172 000 yen, I thought that it would become 140-145 000 for the next year. Oh, well, maybe in 2012.
Ooo, ykk and boradibo, you're coming to my campus/grad school! Maybe I can show you around when you get here. ^_^