Scholarships that include full admission fee waivers and full or partial tuition fee waivers for four-and-a-half years are available for all Kyoto iUP students. Additionally, a monthly allowance of up to JPY 120,000 per month is provided to all Kyoto iUP students during the six-month preparatory course. After enrolling in the undergraduate course, merit-based monthly allowances from a variety of supporting companies and organizations are available for eligible students. Please refer to Financial Support page for more details.

You do not have to apply for the admission and tuition fee waivers separately. Likewise, you do not have to apply for the monthly allowance for the preparatory course separately. For those scholarships, please just select "Yes" to the question "Do you wish to be considered for this scholarship? " when you apply for Kyoto iUP in the Online Application System. For the merit-based monthly allowance for an undergraduate course, you need to apply for it during the preparatory course. The detailed procedures will be explained after you enroll in Kyoto iUP.

No, it is not. We only accept applications to Kyoto iUP through the "Online Application System". Please note that application through any other method is not acceptable.

There are two types of MEXT Scholarship: (1) Embassy Recommendation and (2) University Recommendation
(1)Embassy Recommendation: This is conducted by MEXT and you need to contact MEXT or an appropriate Japanese diplomatic mission in your country such as the Japanese embassy in your country. You can refer to this page as well.
(2) University Recommendation: Kyoto iUP has some spots for Mext Scholarship (University Recommendation), which is different from the MEXT Scholarship (Embassy Recommendation). However, its recipients will be selected by Kyoto iUP among successful applicants. That is to say, you need to get accepted to Kyoto iUP first. Please note that even if you get accepted to Kyoto iUP, it does not guarantee that you will receive the MEXT scholarship.

Unfortunately, there are no scholarships offered by Kyoto University other than the Kyoto iUP. For a list of scholarship information for privately financed students, please go to this page and check the "Scholarships from private foundations" section. Please note that many of these scholarships expect applicants to have a certain level of Japanese language Proficiency and are highly competitive.

Scholarships are merit-based and depend on a student's academic performance, etc.

No. We do not offer a conditional offer and we do not issue any letter for it.

Yes. We have university-nominated scholarships and other external scholarships that can be applied for by individuals. The detailed information about these types of scholarships is only available internally within Kyoto University, so after students enroll in Kyoto iUP, we will support them in the application.