Need-based financial aid programs

Introductory Q&A

• What are the kinds of scholarship and student loan programs available to students at Ritsumeikan University?
• What are need-based financial aid programs?
• How do loan-type financial aid programs differ from the grant-type ones?
• What are the criteria for financial aid programs?
• When can I receive payments through financial aid programs? How much can I receive and in what way?
• Can I receive payments through two or more financial aid programs at the same time?

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Information for students whose household finances experienced a sudden change under the effects of the COVID-19 outbreak<grants and loans>

• Our household finances experienced a sudden change under the effects of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. Are there financial aid programs I can apply for?

The loan-type financial aid programs offered by Japan Student Services Organization (JASSO)

• What kind of programs are these?
• When can I apply for these programs?
• Tell me about application criteria for the category of urgent and emergency acceptance.
• I’m a new graduate student. Tell me about procedures for postponing repayments of loan-type financial aid I had received as an undergraduate student.
• I’m an undergraduate planning to enter a Ritsumeikan University graduate school. I’m receiving a loan-type financial aid now. Can I remain a recipient after entering a graduate school?
• I’m planning to enter a Ritsumeikan University graduate school. Tell me how loan-type financial aid programs for graduate students differ from such programs for undergraduate student.

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The grant-type financial aid program offered by JASSO and Ritsumeikan University Tuition Reduction <grants available to undergraduate students only>

• What are these financial aid programs like?
• When can I apply for the programs?
• Tell me about application criteria for the category of a sudden household finances change.
• Will information sessions on acceptance that had been planned after the decision of acceptance be held as scheduled?

Ritsumeikan University financial need-based aid programs (grants for students suffering from a sudden change in household finances, a disaster, etc.)

• What kind of original financial aid programs does Ritsumeikan University offer?
• Tell me how I can apply for these programs.

Financial aid programs offered by private foundations and local governments (grants and loans)

• What are financial aid programs offered by private foundations and local governments like?
• When can I apply for these programs?
• Tell me how I can obtain guidelines and application forms, and how I can submit applications.

Other options (education loans)

• Tell me about education loans.