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In accordance with an instruction from the Amgen Foundation, Kyoto University selects the participants from colleges and universities throughout Asia including Eastern, South-Eastern, Central, Southern and Western Asia.

Amgen Scholars Asia Program applicants must be undergraduate students who are:

• Enrolled in colleges or universities in Asia that award a bachelor’s degree (or its equivalent); and
• At minimum, have completed their first year of undergraduate study at the time the summer program begins, and
• Are not graduating before the summer program begins, and after the summer program ends will resume undergraduate studies for at least 1 semester or quarter

Asia Program applicants must also have:

• A strong record of academic performance; and,
• A good working knowledge of English, demonstrated by a minimum TOEFL (iBT) score of 72, IELTS overall band score of 5.5, Cambridge English FCE, TOEIC score of 1095, TOEIC L&R score of 785, or TOEIC S&W score of 310, if not a native English speaker or English is not your first language, and
• An interest in pursuing a Ph.D.

In addition, the applicants must agree that:

• the program may be changed or deferred if holding the program safely and smoothly seems difficult due to the epidemic of the covid-19 and the boarder restrictions in Japan.
• a vaccine passport may be required to participate in the program.