If you can enroll in the world's top 50 difficult universities, you will receive a scholarship of 550 million yen.A new project in which Hagi City, Yamaguchi Prefecture, provides scholarships totaling 20 million yen to high school students living in the city and those up to the age of 50 who have graduated from high school in the city, to the top 4 students in the world university rankings over a four-year period. Was included in the initial budget for the 550 general account.It is rare in Japan and is said to be the first attempt in Yamaguchi Prefecture.
According to Hagi City, the target students will live in Hagi City for three years during high school, graduate from high school in the city, and go on to universities in Japan and overseas that are in the top 3 of the world university rankings after April 2020. person.The age is limited to 4 years old or younger as of April 50 of the year of admission to the university.Those who move in from outside the city are not eligible even if they are under 4 years old.
The scholarship will be 30 yen as an admission reserve, and tuition fees will be paid for 4 years after entering the university.The upper limit for each year is 130 million yen.At the end of the Tokugawa shogunate, he smuggled to the UK to study abroad, and learned from the five masters of the Choshu clan, including Hirobumi Ito, who contributed to the modernization and industrialization of Japan. A project cost of 2019 yen was recorded as a transfer from "Your Hometown Hagi Support Fund".
Prestigious universities such as Oxford University in the United Kingdom and Harvard University in the United States have been selected as the top 50 universities in the world university rankings, and the University of Tokyo and Kyoto University have been selected from Japan.It is said that Hagi City went on to Kyoto University in 2013.
reference:[Hagi City, Yamaguchi Prefecture] Outline of the initial budget for FY31 (PDF)
