Graduate Financial Support Info

Kumamoto Gakuen University (KGU) offers a tuition exemption of 50% designed to reduce the financial burden of privately funded international students, who are highly motivated to study and who fulfill certain conditions, in order to allow them to concentrate on their studies. To be eligible for this exemption, an individual must have the status of residence "Student" as a degree-seeking privately funded international student.

Other scholarships including “MEXT Honors Scholarship for Privately-Financed International Students” offered by JASSO, the JEES Scholarship for International Students, and Kumamoto YWCA Scholarship are also available to apply through KGU, depending on the year.

KGU supports a part of the necessary expenses for making research presentations at academic conferences, and publishing papers in academic journals, in order to encourage the academic activities of graduate students and to promote academic research.

Making copies up to 1,500 pages are free of charge per year when photocopying documents and handouts for classes using on-campus designated copiers.

With the aim of realizing detailed guidance in undergraduate and graduate education and providing training opportunities for graduate students to become teachers and researchers in the future, KGU has established a teaching assistant program, with many graduate students participating every year. Through this program, students learn about education and research methods under the guidance of faculty members with abundant research achievements and practical experience, and receive a certain amount of remuneration, which is designed to play a role in providing financial support to graduate students.

KGU has established a research assistant program to enhance the academic research of the Graduate Schools and effectively promote research projects, as well as to foster young researchers through research support work.

The "Education and Training Benefits" is a system designed to support the professional development and career advancement of working individuals by providing a partial reimbursement of course fees to those who enroll in education and training courses designated by the Minister of Health, Labor, and Welfare and meet certain requirements. Our university’s master’s programs have been designated by the Minister of Health, Labor, and Welfare as “courses eligible for the General Education and Training Benefits.” Students who complete these programs and meet the specified conditions are eligible to receive the Education and Training Benefits (up to 100,000 yen).
Please note, however, that the long-term enrollment students are not eligible to apply for the Education and Training Benefits.

The long-term enrollment system is a system that allows students who have difficulty completing their studies within the standard term (2 years for the master’s program, 3 years for the doctoral program) to extend the course of their studies, due to circumstances related to work or family, etc.

Eligibility

Those who can apply for a long-term course shall fall under one of the following conditions:

1. Those who have a profession and are employed.
2. Those who have various circumstances such as nursing care, childcare, childbirth, etc.
3. Those whom the Graduate School admitted to have extenuating circumstances.

Long-term Enrollment Period

The enrollment period for long-term enrollment students is as follows.