Spring Semester of the Academic Year 2024-2025
Application Guidelines
for the Financial Support Programs of
Yokohama National University(For International Students Entered by March 2020)[Attention]
These application guidelines apply to international students who entered YNU byMarch 2020.
Those whose student ID number starts with 20 should refer to the application
guidelines for "International Students Entering / Entered in or after April 2020."

Table of Contents
1. Application Procedure for the Spring Semester (Overview) …1
2. Tuition Waiver and Deferment ... 5
3. Data Registration for University-recommended Scholarships … 8
4. Inquiries … 10
5. [Reference] List of Standard Number of Credits …11

Student Support Division, Global Promotion Division
Student Affairs and International Strategy Department

1.

Application Procedure for the Spring Semester (Overview)(1)

Introduction

If you wish to apply for any of the Yokohama National University (YNU) financial support
programs listed below, please follow the instructions in these application guidelines to lodge anapplication and other necessary documents within the designated period.
1) Tuition waiver and deferment
If you have difficulty paying your tuition for financial or other reasons, this program willaward you a full or half waiver of your tuition fees after you pass the application screening.
2) Data registration for university-recommended scholarships
To qualify for a university-recommended scholarship provided by one of the scholarshipfoundations, you need to register your basic data for internal screening. If you apply for such ascholarship, make sure to register your basic data.

(2) Application Schedule & Procedure
The application schedule and procedure are as described below.
1) Application Schedule
Tuition waiver/deferment and data registration for university-recommended scholarships

Application period

From April 4 (Thu), 2024

See 2) Application

To 5 pm, April 15 (Mon), 2024

Procedure to submit
application.

Deadline for submission ofresidence card information

May 31 (Fri), 2024("Student" status)
Applicants will not be
Announcement of tuition

July 26 (Fri), 2024

waiver/deferment results

notified for the completionof data registration for
university-recommended
scholarships.

*For students who are expected to obtain their "Student" status of residence or are in theprocess of renewing it, they are required to follow the application procedure by the deadline forapplication and to submit their residence card information through the YNU Residence Card
Submission Form once they have obtained or renewed their "Student" status of residence by thedeadline. If they do not, they will not be granted a tuition waiver, and they will not be registeredfor university-recommended scholarships. Please consult with us individually if you are inunavoidable circumstances that you cannot submit your residence card information by thedeadline.
<YNU Residence Card Submission Form>
https://reg18.smp.ne.jp/regist/is?SMPFORM=odlf-lcmioj-93336d03e96141a281559697913c2f69

12) Application Procedure
Download the application forms from the website below, fill them out, and submit them throughthe online application form.
http://www.gakuseisupport.ynu.ac.jp/expense/tuition/<Online Application Form>Your application documents must be submitted through the online form below by the deadline.
Please keep an automatic reply to your submission as a receipt.
https://reg18.smp.ne.jp/regist/is?SMPFORM=odlf-lcrdnh-09003352518c288a9f99d361315d1a97(3) Application for the Fall Semester
Tuition waivers/deferments and registration for university-recommended scholarships must be
applied for each semester. If you wish, please remember to apply for the fall semester as well.
Since the screening for tuition waiver is conducted every semester, application results for the fallsemester are not always the same as those for the spring semester. Make sure to check theannouncement results for each semester.
[Tuition waiver/ deferment]
If there are any changes as described below* after your application, you are not eligible for atuition waiver/ deferment.
*You plan to take a leave of absence, or graduate/ complete during each semester(spring: April - September, fall: October – March)*Your status of residence is changed to something other than "Student"2(4) Documents Submitted
Check the necessary documents in the table below and then submit them. Only one copy ofeach document is enough even if you apply for both programs.
Data registration
Documents submitted

Tuition waiver/for university-deferment

recommended
scholarships

1) Application Form and Checklist (Form 1)2) Family Budget Statement (Form 2)* Applicants who have a student among their family
members living in Japan or are part of a householdthat is eligible for a special deduction are also
required to submit verification documents.

3-1) Income Statement (Form 3-1)
* Fill in the months when you were paid (not themonths you worked).

3-2) Income Statement [for Family] (Form 3-2)*
Submit statements for all applicable family
members living in Japan (excluding the applicants
themselves, students, babies and infants).
*
Fill in the months when they were paid (not themonths they worked).

()4-1) Residence Card Attachment Sheet(Form 4-1)
* Attach copies (both sides) of the residence cards.

4-2) Residence Card Attachment Sheet [for Family](Form 4-2)
* Submit copies of the residence cards of all family
members living in Japan.
* Attach copies (both sides) of the residence cards.

()5-1) Income Certificate* Copies of your pay slips or bankbook* For all income received between July andDecember 2023

5-2) Income Certificate [for Family]* Certificates for all family members living in Japan
who have an income (excluding students, babies,
and infants)* Copies of their pay slips or bankbooks* For all income received between July andDecember 2023

()

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5-3) No-Income Certificate [for Family]* Certificates for all family members living in Japan
who have no income (excluding students, babies,
and infants)* Latest tax exemption certificate or taxation
certificate()6) Recommendation (Form 5)* Applicants who are doctoral students applying fora tuition waiver/ deferment.

()(5) Important Information•

YNU will not allow you to inspect the documents you submit, nor will it lend or return them toyou.

•

If your application contains any false declarations or your conduct constitutes grounds fordisciplinary action, your application or application results may become invalid.

•

Information posted on campus bulletin boards and the Student Support Division’s website isdeemed to have been communicated and received, so you cannot file a protest later on the
grounds that you did not see the information posted.

• As a general rule, you will receive messages at the YNU e-mail address if YNU has any inquiries.
Please check your YNU email box once a day at least. Please note that if any of the required
responses and documents are not submitted by the designated deadline, you may bedisadvantaged or your application may be excluded from the screening process.

• You need to apply separately each academic year. The application mentioned in theseapplication guidelines is for the spring semester AY 2024.

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2.

Tuition Waiver and Deferment(1)

Overview of the Program

If Japanese students or international students have difficulty paying their tuition fees forfinancial or other reasons, this program will award them a full or half waiver of their tuition feesor allow them to defer payment for a certain period after they pass the application screening.

(2) Application Eligibility
To apply for a tuition waiver/deferment, you are required to meet all of the following eligibility
requirements from 1) to 3) , and also one of (a) or (b).
1) Privately financed regular undergraduate or graduate international student at YNU as ofApril 1, 2024.
International students who are sponsored or dispatched by their governments as well as•privately financed international students who receive aid for their tuition fees from JICA, theWorld Bank, foreign governments, or other institutions are not eligible for the YNU Tuition
Waiver Program.
2) Have or going to have a "Student" status of residence as prescribed by Japanese law(Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act)
3) The "Student" status of residence mentioned in 2) must be valid for the entire semester, orbe expected to be renewed.

(a) You have difficulty paying your tuition fees for financial reasons: "General application"category＊If you plan to take a leave of absence, or graduate/ complete during each semester (spring:
April - September, fall: October - March), you are not eligible for a tuition waiver/defermentin that semester.
(b) Your tuition payer living in Japan died or you or your tuition payer suffered wind, flood, orother disaster damage during the previous semester, and you are considered to havesignificant difficulty in paying your tuition fees: "Application under special circumstances"category•"During the previous semester" means the period from October 1, 2023 to March 31, 2024,
for spring-semester applications.

•"Tuition payer" means the person who is principally responsible for paying your tuition fees.
Your tuition payer must be someone from your household who is living in Japan.

•"Wind, flood, or other disaster damage" means damage that occurred in Japan as a generalrule and for which a disaster victim certificate or other similar certificates are issued by apublic institution.

•

If you are to apply under the “Application under special circumstances” category, notify the
Financial Support Section, Student Support Division in advance.

5(3) Screening Method
Students who fall under the "General application" category need to undergo academic andfinancial assessments. Students who fall under the "Application under special circumstances"category must undergo a financial assessment.
[Academic assessment]•

An “academic assessment” is based on your academic records for the previous semesters.

•

As a general rule, students whose enrollment period (excluding any leave of absence) has
exceeded the minimum period required for graduation are not eligible to make an application.
However, only if you are enrolled for not more than one year beyond the minimum periodrequired for graduation, you may be considered “eligible”, depending on the reason.

•

If an academic assessment considers you are not eligible, your application will be “rejected”
however difficult your financial situation is.

•

The academic assessment criteria for tuition waiver and deferment are as shown below.
Undergraduate
Program
Master’s
programStudents who have earned at least the standard number of credits* specified
by their colleges and received a “good” or a higher grade for at least 60%of their earned credits.
Students who have earned at least the standard number of credits* specified
by their graduate schools and received a “good” or a higher grade for atleast 60% of their earned credits.

DoctoralStudents recommended by their supervisors.
program* See p. 11 for the standard number of credits specified by colleges and graduate schools.
[Financial assessment]
A “financial assessment” is based on the financial situation of the entire household (only yourfamily living in Japan) sharing living expenses with you.
If your family living in Japan has a student, a person with a disability, or a person undergoing
long-term medical treatment (limited to persons whose total medical expenses within one yearof your application are 200,000 yen or more) or is a single-parent household or a household
affected by a disaster, a financial assessment will consider your family situation as long as you
submit a document proving it. In these cases, notify the Financial Support Section, Student
Support Division.
[Important] Since the waiver budget is limited, some successful applicants may not beawarded a waiver if there are many applicants. In this case, these applicants will be awarded
a waiver in order of their academic performance.

6(4) Screening Results
For each semester, YNU announces the following screening results: "Full waiver," "Half waiver," or"Rejection."[Announcement date]July 26(Fri), 2024, for the spring semester
December 18(Wed), 2024, for the fall semester• The announcement date is tentative and is subject to change depending on the circumstances.
If the announcement date is changed, a new date will be announced on the Student Support
Division’s website.
[Announcement method] Student Information System
https://risyu.jmk.ynu.ac.jp/WebInfo/p/LogIn.aspx(log in to the system with your ID and password)•

To protect personal information, YNU does not post application results on campus bulletinboards. Also, YNU does not send notices of results to individual applicants or accept inquiries
by telephone about results.

•

If you cannot check your results through the Student Information System, come to the
Financial Support Section (Counter No.4, Student Center 2F) with your student card. If you
find it difficult to come to the university, please contact them at gakusei.keizai@ynu.ac.jp
from your YNU Mail account, with a copy of your student card.

[Payment deadline]••

If you are awarded a full waiver, you do not need to pay your tuition fees.
For those who are awarded a half waiver or your waiver application is rejected, or those who
apply only for a deferment;◼

If your deferment application is rejected or if you apply only for waiver;Your tuition fees will be automatically debited from your registered account on
August 27(Tue), 2024, for the spring semester
January 27(Mon), 2025, for the fall semester.

◼

If your deferment application is accepted;
Your tuition fees will be automatically debited from your registered account on
September 12(Thu), 2024, for the spring semester
February 27(Thu), 2025, for the fall semester.

[Important]• Once you apply for a waiver or deferment, you will not need to pay your tuition fee until theapplication results are announced.
• Please note that you will be expelled if you fail to pay your tuition fee by the prescribeddeadline, so make sure to observe the payment deadline.
• Application results for the fall semester are not always the same as those for the springsemester.

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3.

Data Registration for university-recommended scholarships(1)

Overview of the Program

Two types of scholarships are available for privately financed international students: Universityrecommended scholarships, which require a recommendation from the university in order for you
to apply, and scholarships you can apply for directly, which allow students to apply directly toscholarship foundations. Data registration for university-recommended scholarships is a programfor registering the basic data used in internal screening for scholarships requiring the university's
recommendation.
[Important] You cannot apply for a scholarship simply by completing the data registration
for university-recommended scholarships. After registration, please check the scholarship
information provided on campus bulletin boards or the Student Support Division's website
and then submit an application for your preferred scholarship(s) from the designated URL.

Scholarship Application Flow Chart
Scholarships that you canapply for directly

University-recommended scholarships
Registerwith thisapplication

Data registration for “university-recommended scholarships”

Check scholarship information on the Global Promotion Division's website(https://global.ynu.ac.jp/support/scholarship_application/)

Apply for preferred scholarship(s)Passed internal screening

Not passed internal screening

Send designated application
documents directly toscholarship foundations

Prepare application documents designated by
the relevant scholarship foundation

Screening by the relevant scholarship foundation

Selected

Screening by the relevant scholarship foundation

Selected

Not selected

Not selected(2) Registration Period
This registration applies to scholarship applications from the spring semester AY2024 to thebeginning of the fall semester. Make sure to register your data if you wish to apply for universityrecommended scholarships for this period. Please note that there are some scholarships that open
their application in the academic year 2024-2025 even if the scholarship payments start in or after
April 2025. This registration must be applied for each semester. If you wish, please remember toapply for the fall semester as well.

8(3) Application Eligibility
To apply for data registration for university-recommended scholarships, you are required tomeet all of the following eligibility requirements.
1) Regular YNU undergraduate or graduate student as of April 1, 2024.
2) Have or going to have a "Student" status of residence as prescribed by Japanese law(Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act)
3) The "Student" status of residence mentioned in (2) must be valid for the entire semester or
be expected to be renewed.

(4) Screening Method[Undergraduate programs and master's programs]
The rankings of applicants are determined based on their academic performance (total GPA
through the last semester).
[Doctoral program]
The rankings of applicants are determined based on their academic performance, including the
publication of peer-reviewed papers and the receipt of awards, as well as their grades for earned
credits.

(5) Application Results
There is no announcement of the applicants ranking for data registration for universityrecommended scholarships.
Completing data registration for university-recommended scholarships is not enough for
applying for a scholarship. After registration, please check the scholarship information provided
on the Global Promotion Division’s website and apply for your preferred scholarship(s) throughthe designated online form. Notification of the internal screening results for individual
scholarships will be sent by e-mail only to those who pass the screening. See p. 8 for thescholarship application flow chart.

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Inquiries

Tuition waiver and deferment
Financial Support Section, Student Support Division
E-MAIL: gakusei.keizai@ynu.ac.jp
Scholarships for privately financed international students
International Students Section, Global Promotion Division
E-MAIL: kokusai.shien@ynu.ac.jp
Address: 79-8 Tokiwadai, Hodogaya-ku, Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa 240-8501
Business hours: 8:30 am to 12:45 pm and 1:45 pm to 5:00 pm (excluding Saturdays, Sundays, andnational holidays) (on the second floor of the Student Center)
Information on tuition waivers and scholarships (Student Support Division's website):
http://www.gakuseisupport.ynu.ac.jp/*

All of the information contained in the application documents will be used only for thescreening procedure and confirmation of your status of residence.

10【参考】学部・⼤学院（修⼠） 標準修得単位数表（2024年度春学期 授業料免除・徴収猶予申請に係る「学業」審査⽤）[Reference]List of Standard Number of Credits
for Academic Assessment of Tuition Waiver/ Deferment (Spring Semester 2024-2025)
2024年4⽉1⽇時点 As of April 1, 2024
※各設定単位数は変更になる場合があります。

* The number of credits is subject to change.

〈学 部 Undergraduate〉※休学歴のある者は在学⽉数で確認するこ
新⼊⽣
と。
24春⼊学
Those who had temporary leavesNewof absence from YNU should referstudents
to the number of enrollment
entering inmonths below.
Spring 2024
在学⽉数（休学期間は除く）
The number of enrollment
months (except months of
temporary leaves)※⽉始め（1⽇）に在学していれば、その⽉は在学⽉として数える。

1〜6か⽉

1年⽣
23秋⼊学
1 yearentered in
Fall 2023

2年⽣
23春⼊学
2 yearentered in
Spring 2023

2年⽣
22秋⼊学
2 yearentered in
Fall 2022

3年⽣
22春⼊学
3 yearentered in
Spring 2022

3年⽣
21秋⼊学
3 yearentered in
Fall 2021

4年⽣
21春⼊学
4 yearentered in
Spring 2021

4年⽣
20秋⼊学
4 yearentered in
Fall 2020（参考）卒業単位数(Reference) Credits required for
graduation

7〜12か⽉13〜18か⽉

19〜24か⽉

25〜30か⽉

31〜36か⽉

37〜42か⽉

43〜48か⽉Count the month as an enrollment
month if you are enrolled as of the 1st of
the month.

教育学部
Education

全員適格
全員適格
everyone is everyone isqualifiedqualified

33

49

66

82

99

99

経済学部
Economics

全員適格
全員適格
everyone is everyone isqualifiedqualified

31

46

62

77

93

93

⼀般、DSEP、LBEEP

⼀般
General

全員適格
全員適格
everyone is everyone isqualifiedqualified

31

46

62

77

93

93

124

社会⼈
Adult

全員適格
全員適格
everyone is everyone isqualifiedqualified

31

46

62

77

93

93

124

GBEEP

全員適格
全員適格
everyone is everyone isqualifiedqualified

33

49

66

82

99

99

132
※カリキュラム年度が「2022」以前の学⽣のみ。
*Only for those enrolled in or before
2022.

DSEP

全員適格
全員適格
everyone is everyone isqualifiedqualified

31

46

62

77

93

93

124

理⼯学部
Engineering Science

全員適格
全員適格
everyone is everyone isqualifiedqualified

31

46

62

77

93

93

124

都市科学部
※YCCS、ソクラテスは都市科学部と同様
Urban Sciences*including YCCS and Socrates

全員適格
全員適格
everyone is everyone isqualifiedqualified

31

46

62

77

93

93

124

経営学部
Business
Administration

130（ただしカリキュラム年度が「2020」以前の「特別⽀援教育」学⽣は132）
124

GBEEP 132

〈⼤学院（修⼠） Graduate School (Master's program)〉
新⼊⽣
24春⼊学
New
Those who had temporary leaves ofstudents
absence from YNU should refer to theentering in
number of enrollment months below.
Spring 2024
※休学歴のある者、留年している者は在学⽉数で確認すること。

1年⽣
23秋⼊学
1 yearentered in
Fall 2023

2年⽣
23春⼊学
2 yearentered in
Spring 2023

2年⽣
22秋⼊学
2 yearentered in
Fall 2022（参考）修了単位数(Reference) Credits required forcompletion

在学⽉数（休学期間は除く）
The number of enrollment months(except months of temporary leaves)※⽉始め（1⽇）に在学していれば、その⽉は在学⽉として数える。

1〜6か⽉

7〜12か⽉13〜18か⽉

19〜24か⽉Count the month as an enrollment
month if you are enrolled as of the 1st of
the month.

教育学研究科
Education

全員適格
全員適格
everyone is everyone isqualifiedqualified

15

15

30

教育学研究科（教職⼤学院）
Education (Professional School)

全員適格
全員適格
everyone is everyone isqualifiedqualified

20

20

46

国際社会科学府
International Social Sciences

全員適格
全員適格
everyone is everyone isqualifiedqualified

16

16

32
36
(38)

理⼯学府
Engineering Science

全員適格
全員適格
everyone is everyone isqualifiedqualified

15

15

30

環境情報学府
Environment and Information
Sciences

全員適格
全員適格
everyone is everyone isqualifiedqualified

15

15

30

都市イノベーション学府
Urban Innovation

全員適格
全員適格
everyone is everyone isqualifiedqualified

15

15

30
(Y-GSAの副専攻ﾌﾟﾛｸﾞﾗﾑの場合は40）(40 in case of the minor program of
Y-GSA)

先進実践学環Innovative and Practical Studies

全員適格
全員適格
everyone is everyone isqualifiedqualified

15

15

30

※⼤学院（博⼠）においては、指導教員が推薦する者を「学業」審査の適格者とします。 For doctoral programs, those recommended by their supervisors are qualified for academic assessment.