Closing Date 31 January 2009

Session 2009/10

As ORSAS awards are no longer being offered from Session 2009/10, the University of Leeds is providing a number of Fully-funded University International Research Scholarships, which are available for high quality international students who will be commencing PhD research study from October 2009 for study in any Faculty at the University of Leeds.

Awards provide full international fees together with a maintenance grant of £13,290 and will be made for one year in the first instance, renewable for a further two years, subject to satisfactory academic progress.

Details about the eligibility criteria and regulations relating to these Scholarships are available from the Application Form. Completed application forms should be returned to the Postgraduate Scholarships Office

As applicants will only be considered if they have received an offer of an academic place for PhD research study from the University of Leeds, applicants are advised to submit their application for an academic place as soon as possible and well before 31 January 2009.

How to Apply for a Place of Study at Leeds

If you would like to apply for a place on a research degree programme, please see: I want to Apply

Other Scholarships at the University of Leeds

Details about other Postgraduate Scholarships at the University of Leeds may be found on the Postgraduate Scholarships Website.

Application deadline is January 31, 2009 

International Graduate Program for Advanced Science (IGPAS) is an interdisciplinary graduate program in the Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University. It was established in October 2004 as the first international graduate program founded in Japanese national universities. IGPAS offers courses in English for international students who are eager to obtain master’s and doctoral degrees from the Graduate School of Science. It is also aims to educate Japanese students to exert their abilities as internationally-active, professional scientists.

IGPAS has proudly reserved positions of Japanese government scholarship for its master’s students since its foundation, and in 2008, IGPAS-Super Doctoral Course (SDC) has been started for doctoral students jointly with the Institute for the International Advanced Research and Education (IIARE) of Tohoku University. Students of IGPAS-SDC benefit from fellowship by IIARE to promote world top-level, interdisciplinary research at the Graduate School of Science.

Prospective students will have excellent opportunities to study modern science and conduct cutting-edge research with top-level scientists currently working at Tohoku University.

IGPAS is a 5-year graduate program as the combination of a 2-year master’s program and a 3-year doctoral program. In the interdisciplinary program, students are affiliated to one of six departments in three groups based on the GCOE programs: (i) Chemistry, (ii) Mathematics, Astronomy, and Physics, and (iii) Earth Science and Geophysics.
The academic year of IGPAS starts in October. The Graduate School of Science will admit at most 20 students each for the master’s and doctoral programs for IGPAS 2009.

As of December, 2008, availability of financial supports for IGPAS 2009 students is as shown below. See 7. FINANCIAL SUPPORT of the appplication booklet for the eligibility requirements.
For a possibility of financial support other than the below, contact your prospective supervisor.

Master’s Program
Japanese government (MEXT) scholarship for 8 students
by The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology (MEXT; Monbukagakusho)

• Monthly stipend of 170,000 yen/month for the first year and 160,000 yen for the following years

• Flight tickets between the country of the student’s nationality and Japan

• Exemption from application, admission and tuition fees.

Doctoral Program
IGPAS-SDC fellowship for 2 students
by the Institute of International Advanced Research and Education (IIARE), Tohoku University
Monthly stipend of 200,000 yen/month

• 300,000 yen to compensate for admission fee
• 250,000 yen/semester to compensate for tuition
• Research grants of up to 500,000 yen/semester (up to 1,000,000 yen/year)

Please check 9. HOW TO APPLY and 10. APPLICATIN DOCUMENTS of the application booklet first, and then download required forms from the chart below. Additional documents are also required for application.

All Applicants

Form#1: Application for Admission	4p	WORD	PDF
Form#2: Statement of Reason for Applying for the Program	1p	WORD	PDF
Form#3: Research Proposal	1p	WORD	PDF
Form#4: Summary of Past Research	1p	WORD	PDF
Form#5: Recommendation Letter	1p	WORD	PDF
Form#6: Official Recommendation Letter	1p	WORD	PDF

Applicants for MEXT Scholarship

Application for MEXT scholarship

Available around the end of December, 2008.

Applicants for SDC Fellowship

Form#A: Essay on Interdisciplinary Study	Available soon.
Form#B: Application form Prospective Supervisor	Available soon.

[Note]

—Please do not alter the prescribed format.??ttach an additional sheet if necessary.

—Form#5: Print 2 copies and provide 1 copy to each of your references.
—Form#6: It should be signed by the dean or higher official of your institution.
—Form#B: It should be submitted directly by the prospective supervisor.

Contact Informations

Academic Affairs Section for IGPAS

Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University
6-3 Aramaki-Aza-Aoba, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8578 JAPAN
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Download Application Form and Further Information about Scholarships

Scholarships for Women in Australia: AFUW QLD, the Queensland association of the Australian Federation of University Women, has been providing fellowships and scholarships for postgraduate research or study since 1972. AFUWQ is part of the International Federation of University Women.

A branch of AFUWQ, the Fellowship Fund Branch, Inc (FFI), was incorporated in 1983 to perform the management and administration of Fellowships.

FFI owns and manages the Academic Dress Hire Service (ADHS). It is a charitable organization and profits from its operations together with investment funds, provide Fellowships to women postgraduate students.

Description : 15 scholarships are available for foreign students to enroll in the newly created Master’s program in Semiotics at University of Tartu, Estonia. The program is fully taught in English and lasts for 2 years. In addition to the theory of semiotics student can specialize in three core modules - cultural semiotics, biosemiotics and sociosemiotics. All accepted students to this program will receive a tuition waiver scholarship that will cover their tuition fee for the whole two years of the program. Additionally a stipend of 200 EUR/month will be granted in the course of studies to students with the best academic results. Applications are now welcome and will continue to be welcome until May 2009 for the academic year starting in September 2009. Please consult the program’s website for details on eligibility, deadlines and application process. UT Department of Semiotics is one of the most important centres of semiotics in Europe, and the birthplace of the world-renowned Tartu-Moscow school of semiotics which was founded by prof. Juri Lotman.

Homepage : www.ut.ee/semioticsma

Contact address : University of Tartu Ülikooli 18, 50090 Tartu ESTONIA E-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it