This guide answers all of those questions and more with clear explanations and bonus worksheets to help you follow along.
The MEXT scholarship is one of the world’s most generous scholarship schemes for graduate students. It is competitive, but if you know what the reviewers are looking for and how to approach the application, there is no reason why you cannot earn it for yourself!
How to Win the MEXT Scholarship introduces the scholarship benefits and requirements as well as its goals, then walks you through the process of creating an unstoppable application strategy.
What’s waiting for you: Free tuition. Living stipend of over 1.5 million yen per year. Round-trip flight to Japan.
Travis Senzaki is an expert in the MEXT scholarship application process and has worked with over 10,000 scholarship applicants over 15 years. He worked as the MEXT scholarship application coordinator at a large, private university for three years and has published dozens of articles about the scholarship and answered thousands of applicant questions on his TranSenz and My MEXT Scholarship websites.
How to Win the MEXT Scholarship is based on those articles and questions, putting everything together in an easy-to-follow, step-by-step presentation. It is designed so that no matter how much experience you have with the MEXT Scholarship – whether you just heard about it today, or whether you have applied multiple times in the past – you will be able pick up at the right part of the application for you and follow through to created a strong, successful application.
The book also comes with worksheets, exercises, and resources to walk you through determining your eligibility and creating your application strategy.
This is a long application process – over a year in most cases – and you want to give yourself months to prepare in advance.
If you want to check out the book, but don’t have the resources to buy it now, ask your university or local library to purchase it instead!
How to Win the MEXT Scholarship is available in print, through Ingramspark or Amazon, and in ebook through Overdrive, Bibliotheca, and Baker & Taylor which are ebook distribution networks for libraries, if your library stocks ebooks. Either way, your library should be able to order it through their normal purchasing channels. Here’s the information your library might need:
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