University of Sydney Sakuko Matsui Australia Japan Friendship Scholarship in Australia for 2022/2023
The Sakuko Matsui Australia Japan Friendship Scholarship is valued at about $8000 and seeks to support an undergraduate or postgraduate research Japanese studies student.
The University of Sydney is a public research university situated in Sydney, Australia. Established in 1850 as Australia’s first university, it is considered one of the world’s leading universities.
It is one of Australia’s six sandstone universities. The university contains eight academic faculties and university schools, through which it offers bachelor’s, master and doctoral degrees.
The QS World University Rankings rated the University of Sydney as one of the world’s top 25 universities for academic prestige, the top 4 in the world, and the first in Australia for graduate employability.
The University of Sydney is one of the first universities in the world to accept students solely on academic distinction and opened its doors to women on the same grounds as men.
Five Nobel and two Crafoord laureates have been associated with the university as graduates and faculty. The University of Sydney has educated seven Australian prime ministers, two governors-general of Australia, thirteen Premiers of New South Wales including incumbent Premier Dominic Perrottet, and 24 justices of the High Court of Australia, including four chief justices.
The University of Sydney has produced 110 Rhodes Scholars and 19 Gates Scholars. The university is also a member of the Group of Eight, CEMS, the Association of Pacific Rim Universities, and the Association of Commonwealth Universities.
The university is rated 1st in Australia and 29th overall in the 2017 CWTS Leiden Rankings for research impact. The University of Sydney is rated 33rd among the universities around the world by SCImago Institutions Rankings in 2019.
That same year, Performance Ranking of Scientific Papers for World Universities by National Taiwan University, the University of Sydney is rated 29th in the world, and 2nd in Australia.
The university is rated 1st in Australia and 24th in the world according to the 2020-2021 University Ranking by Academic Performance.
Furthermore, the University of Sydney Business School has cemented its place among the world’s leading providers of business education with accreditations from AACSB, AMBA, and EQUIS – leading authorities on postgraduate management studies, thereby reaching the top 1 percent “triple crown” status.
The London-based Financial Times has rated the University of Sydney Business School’s flagship Master of Management as Australia’s number one program of its kind for the eighth successive year since 2013.
Benefits:
The Sakuko Matsui Australia Japan Friendship Scholarship has a maximum value of $8000. Note that the exact value of the scholarship will be specified in the offer letter to the successful recipient.
Requirements for Sakuko Matsui Australia Japan Friendship Scholarship
Domestic students
- Domestic students who are enrolled in an undergraduate or postgraduate research degree in Japanese studies within the School of Languages and Cultures at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences are qualified to apply for Sakuko Matsui Australia Japan Friendship Scholarship.
- Japanese studies include, without limit, all studies related to Japanese modern and premodern culture, history, language, society, and literature.
International students
- International students from Japan who are enrolled to study at the University of Sydney and reside or are planning to live at the Women’s College are qualified to apply.
In order of precedence, the student types below will be given higher importance to receive the Sakuko Matsui Australia Japan Friendship Scholarship:
- Domestic postgraduate research students who hope to travel to Japan as part of their research studies.
- Domestic undergraduate or postgraduate research students, who can display financial need.
- Domestic postgraduate research students who live at the Women’s College, and who plan to travel to Japan as part of their research studies.
- International applicants who are from Japan and who live at, or who plan to live at the Women’s College.
How to Apply for Sakuko Matsui Australia Japan Friendship Scholarship
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Application Deadline: May 30, 2022
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