The Tohoku University International Doctoral Program

The Graduate School of Engineering, the Graduate School of Information Sciences and the Graduate School of Environmental Studies are pleased to announce the Tohoku University International Doctoral Program in Engineering, Information Sciences and Environmental Studies and invite applicants for 2008 entry. The program was launched in 2001 through the financial support of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (Monbukagakusho) and is now in its eighth year. In this program, a wide variety of elective courses are being offered in English
Monbukagakusho scholarships for international students with outstanding scholastic ability are being offered as part of the program. Also, students enjoy some of the world's best experimental facilities and study along with distinguished faculty and associates to develop creative and original research that is published in highly reputed international journals.
Candidates should submit application materials and choose a department for enrollment from the 22 departments listed below:
Departments
Department of Mechanical System and Design
Department of Nanomechanics
Department of Aerospace Engineering
Department of Quantum Science and Energy Engineering
Department of Electrical and Communication Engineering


Department of Electronic Engineering
Department of Applied Physics
Department of Applied Chemistry
Department of Chemical Engineering
Department of Biomolecular Engineering
Department of Metallurgy
Department of Materials Science
Department of Materials Processing
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Department of Architecture and Building Sciences
Management of Science and Technology Department
Department of Bioengineering and Robotics
Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences
Department of System Information Sciences
Department of Human-Social Information Sciences
Department of Applied Information Sciences
Department of Environmental Studies
Candidates should also choose one from the following
course groups (A-E):

Group A: Environmental Engineering
Group B: Information and Communications
Group C: Medical Engineering
Group D: Energy
Group E: Materials
Twenty-five students will be admitted per year into
the program, 5 into each course group. A maximum of 12
students can be awarded Monbukagakusho scholarships.

Lectures in English are arranged in areas of students'
research specialty. However, depending on the
students' language ability, research supervision may
be in English or Japanese. And students may also
attend lectures given in Japanese to fulfill their
requirements.

Source : http://www.eng.tohoku.ac.jp/english/program/?menu=itn