Study Abroad - Programs - Exchanges
Japan: Soka University Exchange Program
Norton/Ikeda Scholarship

Applications will be due in November, 2008.

Spend a full year (fall and then spring semester) studying in Japan through a partnership/exchange between the University of Delaware and Soka University. Two deserving student participants each year will receive generous scholarships covering full tuition and housing for this exchange. Students will be expected to pay for their own airfare and miscellaneous living expenses.

At beautiful Soka University, located in Hachioji City, a suburb of Tokyo and home of many colleges and universities, students will engage in intensive Japanese language study, and live with other international and Japanese students in dormitories within walking distance of campus. Students will also be able to take advantage of the many student clubs and teams available on campus. Students will have the opportunity to take a course or courses their second semester in a subject other than Japanese, depending on their level of preparation.

Eligible students must be UD undergraduates who will have completed JAPN 107 by no later than Fall Semester of the current year.

The deadline for applying to study at Soka for the upcoming calendar year (spring and fall semesters) is November 7.

If you would like to apply, please submit the following on or before November 7:

• on-line application form
• two recommendations from UD professors, ONE of which should be from a Japanese language instructor (ask your recommenders to complete this specific on-line recommendation form)

Selections will be made in early December.