Yokohama National University, The Global Doctoral Program for Academic Career Support (GDACS)
We are pleased to inform you that Yokohama National University is recruiting students who want to enter its graduate schools as doctoral students in October 2017 or April 2018 under the Global Doctoral Program for Academic Career Support (GDACS), which is a doctoral program for faculty members of international partner universities (including department-level agreements) in emerging nations.
The following graduate schools are seeking applicants: the Graduate School of International Social Sciences, the Graduate School of Engineering, the Graduate School of Environment and Information Sciences, and the Graduate School of Urban Innovation. The quota for admission is “up to around six in total”.
Under this program, the applicants do not need to travel Japan for screening, the application fee is free, and the successful applicants with high academic performance are exempt from admission and tuition fees.
Application Guidelines （GDACS）English
The application guidelines and other documents can also be downloaded
from the website below.
English: http://www.ynu.ac.jp/english/campus/expense/academic.html
Japanese: http://www.ynu.ac.jp/international/accept/academic.html
Note: The Application deadline is 4 January 2017. (For those who want to apply for Graduate School of International Social Sciences, the application deadline is 5 December 2016.)