The International Joint Graduate Program in Earth and Environmental Sciences (GP-EES)
Student Recruitment

1.　Number of students to be recruited

The International Joint Graduate Program in Earth and Environmental Sciences (“GP-EES” or “the Program”) will recruit a few graduate students in AY2025 Spring.

2.　Application qualification

Students who meet all the requirements described below as of April 2025:
–those who plan to be enrolled in the second year of the two-year Master’s Program in the following graduate schools/departments, in principle
–those who have a prospect view of conducting doctoral thesis research related to earth and environmental sciences* through international collaborative instruction with overseas partner universities and departments
–those who receive a strong recommendation from their supervisors and are considered to be suitable for participating in GP-EES

*The environmental science to be covered in this program is the field that is closely related to earth science, with the main objective of understanding the earth and the environment itself. The earth science to be covered in this program includes the fields that aim to understand marine ecosystem changes.

[Graduate Schools/Departments participating in the Program]
Graduate School of Science: Department of Geophysics, Department of Earth Science
Graduate School of Environmental Studies
Graduate School of Agricultural Science: Department of Agricultural Bioscience
Graduate School of Life Sciences
Graduate School of Information Sciences
Graduate School of Engineering: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

*Since the Program offers an integrated education combining a two-year Master’s Program and a three-year Doctoral Program, students who do not want to go on to the three-year Doctoral Program cannot apply for the Program.
*Students who are scheduled to be enrolled in the first year of the three-year Doctoral Program and gain approval from the Program Committee of GP-EES may be allowed to participate in the Program, as a special case.
*Those who are going to apply for the Doctoral Program (enrollment in April 2025) of the above graduate schools/departments from the outside and want to apply for GP-EES should consult with the Program Office (Regarding the contact information, see the bottom of this page.).
*Our overseas partner universities or departments are defined as those approved by the Program Committee of GP-EES and have concluded agreements related to jointly supervised degrees or double degrees with Tohoku University or plan to promote the conclusion of such agreements specifically, such as University of Bayreuth, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Sorbonne University, University of Florence, Korea Polar Research Institute, RWTH Aachen University, Université Grenoble Alpes, National Taiwan University, Victoria University of Wellington, University of Maryland-College Park, University of California-Santa Barbara, Utrecht University, Université catholique de Louvain, University of Clermont Auvergne, Pennsylvania State University, Paris Observatory, University of Warsaw, Charles University, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle (France), Massey University, University of Michigan, Goethe University Frankfurt and University of California-Berkeley at the moment.
*Those who are approved to join GP-EES should apply for JSPS Research Fellowship for Young Scientists (DC) in principle.

3.　Application to more than one program

Students can apply for more than one program among the Graduate Degree Programs of Tohoku University simultaneously. Those who wish to do so must indicate the order of priority of the applied programs in the application form (Form A) after consulting with their supervisors in advance (It does not affect the admission decisions). It should be noted that GP-EES does not allow students to participate in multiple programs simultaneously. Therefore, those who pass the examinations of more than one program including GP-EES and wish to participate in GP-EES must decline the other programs.

4.　Application procedures

Application period: December 9 (Mon), 2024 – January 10 (Fri), 2025, 9:00–16:00
(We will be closed on Saturday, Sunday, and national holidays. Also, due to the New Year’s holiday season, we will be closed from December 27 (Fri), 2024 to January 3 (Fri), 2025.)

Venue of application: The International Joint Graduate Program Office
(Regarding the location, see the bottom of the page.)

[In the case of application by mail]
Application documents must arrive no later than January 10 (Fri), 2025.
They must be sent by registered mail, with “Encl. application documents for GP-EES” written in red on the envelope.
Mailing to: The International Joint Graduate Program Office
(The contact information is at the end of this page.)
 
*Those who apply from distant locations and wish to submit application documents online should consult with the Program Office in advance.
(The contact information is at the end of the document.)

5. Application documents

A complete set of the following documents must be submitted within the application period.
The application documents can be downloaded from:

（１）Application(Form A)
（２）Reason for the application(Form B)
（３）Recommendation from supervisor(Officially sealed)(Form C［Japanese］ ［English］)
（４）Original copies of academic transcripts (Undergraduate and graduate ones)
（５）Copies of test scores for official English language skills (TOEFL®, TOEIC®, IELTS, etc.)
(The test score should be taken within the past two years from the start date of the application period.)

*If certificates to be submitted are written in a foreign language other than English, a Japanese or English translation must be attached. (A translation prepared by the applicant is acceptable.)
*Incomplete applications are not accepted.
*Submitted application documents are not returnable.
*TOEFL® and TOEIC® are registered trademarks of the Educational Testing Service (ETS).

6.　Selection method

Students are selected based on an examination of their application documents and an interview.
The interview is planned to be conducted during January 20 (Mon) and January 24 (Fri), 2025.
*Details will be provided individually to the applicants.

7.　Announcement of application results

The official announcement of application results is to be made on March 14 (Fri), 2025.
It will be sent to all applicants by e-mail.

8.　Financial support

To acquire excellent students from Japan and abroad and make them plan and carry out unique research independently, thereby developing them into individuals who have a doctoral degree and can play an active role in international community, we provide financial support to excellent graduate students who are selected for the Program. The amount of allowance is determined by the Support System for International Collaborative Degree Programs, Tohoku University. Students who are receiving other financial assistance are required to contact us. In the case of adopting beyond capacity, it can be difficult to provide a full financial support due to the budgetary reason.

9.　Completion requirements

To complete the Program, students must fulfill not only the requirements for completion of their Graduate Schools, but also the requirements separately prescribed for completion of the Program.
For more information, see the website of GP-EES（https://gp-ees.tohoku.ac.jp/en/）

NOTE

※In order to participate in the Program, student must enter one of the following Graduate Schools/Departments:
Graduate School of Science: Department of Geophysics, Department of Earth Science
Graduate School of Environmental Studies
Graduate School of Agricultural Science: Department of Agricultural Bioscience
Graduate School of Life Sciences
Graduate School of Information Sciences
Graduate School of Engineering: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Information about the admission is available at the following websites.

Graduate School of Science
Graduate School of Environmental Studies
Graduate School of Agricultural Science
Graduate School of Life Sciences
Graduate School of Information Sciences
Graduate School of Engineering