APPLICATION

Application guidelines for students of Academic Year 2026 (Summary)
2026.2.4 UP

Number of Students to be accepted Maximum of 10 people (for students in their 1st year of Master’s program)
A few (for students in their 1st year of Doctoral program)
Application Qualifications

Those who, as of April 1, 2026, are enrolled in their Master’s program and majors listed in the following table and are going to proceed to Doctoral programs of these courses and majors.
Those who, as of April 1, 2026, are enrolled in their 1st year of Doctoral program and majors listed in the following table.

* Applications to other multiple doctorate programs in addition to this program are effective. However, this program does not allow its students to take overlapping courses. Therefore, they must decline other programs if they desire to take this course.

Faculty of Arts and LettersDepartment of Japanese Studies/ Department of Global Humanities/ Department of Integrated Human Sciences
School of Economics and ManagementDepartment of Economics and Management
School of ScienceMathematical Institute/ Department of Physics
School of EngineeringDepartment of Electrical Energy Systems Engineering/ Department of Communications Engineering/ Department of Electronic Engineering/ Department of Applied Physics/ Department of Management Science and Technology
School of Information SciencesDepartment of Computer and Mathematical Sciences / Department of System Information Sciences/ Department of Applied Information Sciences
School of Biomedical EngineeringDepartment of Biomedical Engineering
Application Procedures

Application period
from February 9 (Mon) 2026 to February 16 (Mon) 2026 (Time of Acceptance: from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm)

Place of Acceptance
Secretariat of WISE Program for AI Electronics.
Applicants from other universities may also apply by mail.
(Must arrive by 4:00 PM on February 16th)

Documents to Be Submitted

Submit a set of your application documents as follows within the period of acceptance.

1. Application for registration (Form 1)
2. Personal statement (Form 2)
3. Recommendation letter from a professor who will accept the applicant (Form 3)
4. Academic transcript (issued by the faculty of the university the applicant graduated from or the advanced course of the college of technology the applicant graduated from)
5. Copy of an English proficiency test score
　　　(Any of TOEFL iBT® Test, TOEIC® Listening & Reading Test, IELTSTM) (It does not matter when the applicant took the concerned test.)

Process for Selection

Applicants will be selected with the screening of submitted documents and an interview.

Document screening: February 17 (Tue), 2026 to February 19 (Thu), 2026
Interview: February 20 (Fri), 2026 February 26 (Thu), 2026

Final Acceptance Notification

March, 2026
Financial Support Excellent graduates, who have been selected for this program, will receive financial support. The amount of support will be determined separately.
Requirements for completion Those who have been accepted need to meet the requirements for completion specified separately in addition to the requirements by the graduate course they belong to.
Refer to the website of WISE Program for AI Electronics (https://www.aie.tohoku.ac.jp/) for more details.
Others As a general rule, graduates who have been selected for this program should apply for Postdoctoral Fellowship for Research of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.
Click here for Application Guidelines in PDF file

Contact:

Secretariat of WISE Program for AI Electronics

No. 214, Electrical, Information and Physics Engineering Future Hall,
School of Engineering, Tohoku University
6-6-05 Aramaki Aza Aoba, Aoba-ku, Sendai,
Miyagi 980-8579 Japan

TEL：022-795-5667
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