The program accepts students in two semesters: April or October enrollment. Students can be admitted with a Japanese government scholarship (MEXT), other scholarships, or private funding. There are six major admission pathways into the program.
They are:

• Admission with MEXT* (University Recommendation under the Special Program) Scholarship
• Admission with MEXT (Embassy Recommendation) Scholarship
• Admission with MEXT (University Recommendation, General) Scholarship
• Admission with JICA’s Scholarship (JDS, ABE Initiative, PEACE, JICA-FRIENDSHIP Project, etc.)
• Admission with candidate’s home country’s scholarship (Chinese Government Graduate Student Overseas Study Program, Indonesia government LPDP, other countries’ government scholarship)
• Admission with private funding for International Students

*MEXT: Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology, Japan, Monbukagakusho

Necessary procedures to apply for admission for both master's or doctoral degree programs are as follows:

Other than this program, the Faculty of Urban Innovation offers Infrastructure Management Program (IMP), which is an all-English master program funded by the World Bank. For more information about IMP, please visit this website.
https://www.urban.ynu.ac.jp/english/all-english-program/imp/

Please visit the website below:

Admission MEXT Special Program Page

MEXT Scholarship is also offered through the Japanese Embassy in the applicant's home country on a competitive basis, which is not restricted to Yokohama National University. Anyone interested can contact the Japanese Embassy in their home country.

For more information, please refer to this website:
https://global.ynu.ac.jp/en/admissions/mext_research-embassy/

University Recommendation is a type of selection that students are recommended to MEXT by the Japanese university which will accept you as a research student.

For more information, please refer to this website:
https://global.ynu.ac.jp/en/admissions/mext_research-university/

JICA (Japan International Cooperation Agency) is providing various opportunities to study in the master and the doctor course in Japan. Candidates wishing to study in this program with a JICA scholarship must apply to the relevant JICA program and select Yokohama National University as their preferred university.
The following are the major JICA programs from which we have accepted students. For more detailed information, please refer to each program’s website.

Philippines, Uzbekistan: https://jds-scholarship.org/

https://www.jica.go.jp/english/countries/africa/internship.html

http://friendship.iith.ac.in/

For the Chinese Government Graduate Student Overseas Study Program(国家建設高水平大学公派研究生項目：高水平), please refer to this website.
https://global.ynu.ac.jp/en/admissions/csc/

For other countries’ government scholarships, please select a professor whom you wish to be advised from the faculty list, and consult with the professor by sending an applicant's curriculum vitae, transcripts and certificates of previous degrees, study plan, and financial recourses. The prospective academic advisor will guide the procedure to be followed after evaluating the documents.

The International students can admit to both the master and the doctor course with their private funding or scholarship sources other than MEXT and JICA. International students must select a professor from the faculty list whom they wish to be advised by sending an applicant's curriculum vitae, transcripts and certificates of previous degrees, study plan, and financial recourses. The prospective academic advisor will guide the procedure to be followed after evaluating the documents. For more information, please refer to this website.
https://www.urban.ynu.ac.jp/english/prospective-students/index.html