List of Required Application Documents for CSC-KUT Full-time PhD Student

Signed Pre-application Request --- After you submit your Online Pre-application request form, you will receive an automated email with a PDF file of your Pre-Application request attached. Print the PDF of the Pre-Application Request and sign the last page.

Bachelor's degree academic transcript (original) in English or Japanese (must include date of issue)
Photocopies and English translations should be verified by the university from which you received your bachelor's degree or a notary public, and bear an actual stamp (not a copy of a stamp) of the university or a notary public. The academic transcript should list all the courses you studied in each year, the marks or grades you achieved for each course and the grading system of your university.

*Electronically authenticated academic transcript and its English or Japanese translation may be acceptable only if the conditions are met.

Master's degree academic transcript (original) in English or Japanese (must include date of issue)
Photocopies and English translations should be verified by the university from which you received (or will receive) your master's degree or a notary public, and bear an actual stamp (not a copy of a stamp) of the university or a notary public.

*Electronically authenticated academic transcript and its English or Japanese translation may be acceptable only if the conditions are met.

*If you are still working towards your master's degree, submit a provisional academic transcript.
*In the case where an academic transcript is not available because the degree program is purely research-based and does not offer course work, please submit a certificate (e.g. current enrollment certificate) issued by the university which states that the program is research-based. Please contact us if you cannot obtain such a certificate.
*If you have acquired or will have acquired two master's degrees or other higher degree, please submit academic transcripts for all the degrees you have acquired or will acquire.

Master's degree certificate (original) in English or Japanese
Photocopies and English translations should be verified by the university from which you received your master's degree or a notary public, and bear an actual stamp (not a copy of a stamp) of the university or a notary public.

*If you are still working towards your master's degree, submit a certificate issued by the university which states the expected date of conferral of your master's degree. Use KUT official CSC-KUT Scholarship form No.1.
*If you have already received your degree,
a) The certificate should clearly state that you have received your master's degree. Completion of a master's program is not sufficient.
b) Submit your OFFICIAL degree certificate. A provisional certificate is not acceptable.
*The certificate should be for a degree which you received after 18 or more years of education, and is comparable to or of higher standard than the master's program offered at KUT. (If you proceeded to a M. Phil program after completing a master's program, you should also submit your M.Phil certificate.)

*Electronically authenticated degree certificate and its English or Japanese translation may be acceptable only if the conditions are met.

Research Outline --- A detailed plan of the research in English and approximately one page in length.
In the research outline, please explain what you will do in each of the three years of your research. For example, please include a description of: the materials and equipment that will be necessary; the procedures you expect to perform; and the short term goals you will set for each step of the overall process, in order to achieve your research results and to write with the appropriate timing the papers reporting your results.

*Note carefully: At least one academic paper reporting your research results must be published in a high-level peer-reviewed journal by the final defense.

Two signed recommendation letters in English or Japanese
Use KUT official CSC-KUT Scholarship form No.2
*Each recommendation letter must be an original, with an original hand-written signature by your referee on the last page of the form. Copies of signed letters are not accepted.
*One recommendation letter must be from your master's program supervisor.

Certificate of English ability
Submit the certificate of test results for one of the following: *TOEFL iBT, *IELTS, WSK or CET

Applicants must have one of the following score to apply: *TOEFL iBT 72, *IELTS5.5, WSK(PETS-5) or CET-6, at least.
*TOEFL iBT test can be taken in three approved ways officially: test at a test center, test on paper or test at home. KUT accepts all three options.
*IELTS is only accepted in the academic test format. KUT accepts scores from both test center-based exams and IELTS Online.