The Graduate School of Information Sciences has announced the special selective admission upon recommendation for the year 2013.

The admission by recommendation system is introduced for the courses in the first two years of Doctor’s Program. The aim of this system is to proactively accept individuals who are seeking for studies appropriate for our school from among those who are expected to graduate from an advanced course of university or technical college other than Tohoku University in order to promote the mobilization of students among universities and activate the postgraduate education.

【Application qualification and requirements for recommendation】
The applicant must have outstanding academic records as well as personality and be recommended by the academic dean of the applicant’s university or the principal of the applicant’s technical college. In addition, the applicant must affirm that he or she will surely enter our university when they pass the examination, and must fall under either of the following conditions.

・The applicants must be 1) students who are expected to graduate from other university by March 31, 2014, or 2) those who are enrolled in the two years of study in the advanced course at technical college and expected to receive a Bachelor’s degree by March 31, 2014.

【Selection method】
Acceptance to the graduate school is determined in a comprehensive manner by a short essay, an oral examination and application documents.

【Number to be admitted】 10 persons

【Examination Schedule】
*Period of Application: May 27 –May 31, 2013
* Date of the Entrance Examinations: July 1, 2013
*Announcement of successful applicants: July 5, 2013