Hiroshima University - Support for Students

The Graduate School of Biosphere Science at Hiroshima University offers some modest financial support and beneficial enrichment opportunities to its graduate students as follows:

1.	Financial support for Continuing Education students（Reimbursement of transportation expenses to doctoral students living far away from Hiroshima University on a fiscal year basis）
2.	Grant of Support Program for improving Graduate School Education (by 2010): Encouraging the participation of students in international scientific research activities by supporting travel expense
3.	Subsidy granted to graduate students for their research activities
4.	Teaching Assistant　(Offering an opportunity and financial support to graduate students for providing assistance to a professor in his/her class)
5.	Research Assistant　(Offering an opportunity and financial support to graduate students for providing assistance to a professor in his/her research; in the case of a doctoral student, he/she may be granted half tuition privilege or its equivalent)
6.	Financial aid to self-supporting international students towards their travel expense in order to present a paper at a conference（provided by Ryokusui-kai alumni association)
7.	Grant of Support Program for improving Graduate School Education (by 2010): Providing translation fee in preparation for the publication of students’ thesis
8.	Financial support to Excellent Continuing Education Students（Tuition waiver awarded to academically superior doctoral students in the form of tuition exemption for the latter half of the school year）

Hiroshima University Support:

1. Entrance fee and tuition exemption

2. Hiroshima University Phoenix Scholarship

3. Hiroshima University Excellent Student Scholarship