Finances
Summer 2009 Program Fee
The list below is intended to summarize possible charges that could be incurred against a student's account. Certain charges depend upon specific circumstances, as noted.
| Program Fee* | $3,750 |
| Transcript Fee** |
$95 |
| Withdrawal Fee*** |
$75 |
* Covers tuition, course materials, course-related field trips, orientation, and cultural activities. Does NOT cover housing, meals, international travel, local transportation, accident/medical insurance, or incidentals.
**One-time fee for all registered students
**Required of any student who withdraws from program once registered
Back to topSummer 2009 Estimated Expenses
The expenses below are NOT paid to the program. The estimated figures are provided as a basis for students to determine their individual budgets.
| Roundtrip Airfare from NYC - Kyoto (Kansai: KIX) |
$1700 |
| Housing | $1000-1500 |
| Meals | $1200 |
| Local Transportation | $150 |
| Incidentals | $900 |
Please note that all students must have health insurance which covers them overseas.
Back to topScholarships
Check with your home school's department, study abroad office, or scholarship office to see if any other scholarships are available to you. You may be eligible to apply for the following:
Critical Language Scholarship
KCJS has been selected as a site for the Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program, a program of the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and administered by Council on American Overseas Research Centers and the American Councils for International Education. The CLS Program is part of a U.S. government interagency effort to expand dramatically the number of Americans studying and mastering critical need foreign languages.
The CLS Program provides full funding for U.S. citizens who are undergraduate, Master’s and Ph.D. students.
The CLS program will operate separately but at the same time as the
KCJS Summer Program. However, you can review the KCJS Summer Program
website to get a sense of what to expect. Program details for those
selected for the scholarship program will be provided upon acceptance
to the CLS program.
Application deadline is December 18, 2009.
Because there are limited spots on the CLS Program, students who wish to study abroad in Japan for the summer are recommended to apply to both the CLS and the KCJS programs. You will not be able to apply to the KCJS after the CLS notification deadline since it will be too late.
For more information and the CLS application, please go to:
http://www.caorc.org/cls/index.html
For the KCJS application, please click Application Information on the left navigation bar.
Foreign Language and Area Studies Scholarship (FLAS)
Find out who administers the summer FLAS program at your home school. For Columbia graduate students, you can check the following website.
KCJS Scholarships
Limited funding is available through the KCJS Scholarship Fund. Download scholarship application
Summer-only programs must be eight (8) weeks or more and are limited to science, technology, engineering and mathematics students.
Benjamin A. Gilman Scholarship
Award amounts will vary depending on the
length of study and student need with the average award being approximately
$4,000. Undergraduate students who are receiving Federal Pell Grant funding at
two-year or four-year colleges or universities are eligible to apply.
Students who apply for and receive the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship to study abroad are then eligible to receive an additional $3,000 Critical Need Language Supplement from the Gilman Scholarship
Program for a total possible award of up to $8,000.
Special pilot program open to students of Science, Technology, Engineering or Math (though not required to take courses in these disciplines while abroad), who are also recipients of Federal Pell Grants.
Other resources:
http://www.studyabroadfunding.com/
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