Domestic Student Academic Excellence Scholarship

To support and encourage highly motivated new undergraduate students with excellent academic achievements who are expected to become good role models for other students.

• * This scholarship is awarded to accepted students with exceptional grades and application documents. Awardees of this scholarship are selected when applying for admission to APU. It is not possible to apply for this scholarship after enrollment.

(1) Eligible applicants: Applicants who take the entrance examination designated for domestic students

(2) Scholarship Amount: Full APU tuition amount

(3) Method of Providing the Scholarship: Scholarship recipients will be exempt from paying tuition.

(4) Scholarship Period: In principle, for the minimum period of study (four years). Your scholarship will be revoked if you become ineligible for the scholarship. (Details below)

(5) Revocation of Scholarship:

The scholarship will be revoked if any of the following applies.

• ①
  When a student is no longer enrolled at APU (withdrawal, expulsion, etc.)
• ②
  When a student takes a leave of absence
  * It may be possible for a student to begin receiving this scholarship again after being reinstated if he/she satisfies all the assessment standards for continuation right before taking a leave of absence.
• ③
  When a student becomes subject to disciplinary action as a result of an infringement of the Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University Regulations on Punitive Measures for Students.
• ④
  When the following (A) or/and (B) apply for two consecutive semesters between the 1st and 7th semesters

  • (A)
    The student did not acquire the designated number of credits.
    (Designated number) 7th semester: 6 credits All others: 14 credits/semester
  • (B)
    The student’s semester GPA is lower than 3.0
• ⑤
  When the Student Affairs Committee decides a student is no longer a suitable recipient
• ⑥
  When a student does not take a health checkup

  • * If a student does not take a health checkup in the designated period, their scholarship will be suspended the next semester. Their scholarship will be reinstated when the office confirms that the student has taken a health checkup.

【Assessment for Continuation】

Assessment for continuation is conducted each semester after grades are released.

APU Domestic Student Academic Excellence Scholarship Assessment Standards for Continuation
(A) Number of credits a student needs to complete in a semester	14 credits or more (7th semester: 6 credits or more)
(B) Semester GPA	3.0 or higher ※1

※1 For students enrolled in 2022 or earlier, the required Semester GPA is 2.5 or higher.

• When a student fulfills both (A) and (B) requirements: “Continue”
• When a student fails to fulfill (A) or/and (B) requirements: “Warning”
• When a student receives a “Warning” for two consecutive semesters: “Revocation”

<What is GPA (Grade Point Average)?>
You can find the GPA calculation method here.

(6) Notice of Assessment Results

• In principle, students who have received a “Warning” or “Revocation” will be notified via the Student Portal.
• A student who receives a “Warning” will be required to submit a “Study Plan”. The office will also have a meeting with them if necessary.

(1) Recipients’ Status While Participating in the Student Exchange Program

A student has the right to receive this scholarship even while participating in the Student Exchange Program.
However, the student’s scholarship may be revoked for the same reasons above (having been subject to disciplinary action, not fulfilling the assessment for continuation requirements, etc.).

(2) Grades While Participating in the Student Exchange Program and Assessment for Continuation

• We will not assess your GPA while you are on the Student Exchange Program because all of the grades you obtain at your host university will be regarded as T (Transfer) grades at APU. However, the number of credits you obtained will be assessed.
• Please note that the number of credits transferred to APU will be assessed, not the number of credits you acquired at the host university.

(3) Schedule of Assessment for Continuation

• We will not assess your number of credits while you are participating in the Student Exchange Program. After you have transferred your credits to APU, we will retroactively assess the number of credits you completed for all the semesters the assessment has been pending.
• Your assessment results will be listed as “Pending” from the time your Student Exchange Program begins until the time your credit transfer to APU is complete.
• Your assessment results may change from “Pending” to “Warning” if it takes much longer than usual to transfer your credits to APU.
• You must promptly apply to transfer your credits to APU even if you take a leave of absence after participating in the Student Exchange Program.
• You may be required to pay back a large amount of tuition fees all at once if it took much longer than usual to transfer credits to APU and if your scholarship is retroactively revoked for a past semester based on the assessment results.

Start preparing to transfer your credits before and during the Student Exchange Program, and apply for credit transfer soon after you receive your grades from the host university.

<Example: A case where a student applied for credit transfer after a one-year Student Exchange Program and had their scholarship retroactively revoked>

• ● If you receive a “Warning” for two consecutive semesters, your scholarship will be retroactively revoked.
  In that case, you will be required to pay the difference between the amount you paid and the tuition fee for the period after the semester in which you received the “Revocation” assessment.
• ● In principle, if you do not pay the amount billed by the payment deadline, it will result in removal from the register from APU for nonpayment of tuition fees.

Semester	3rd Semester	4th Semester	5th Semester	6th Semester
University you attend	APU	Host university	Host university	APU
Enrollment status	Normal	Study abroad	Study abroad	Normal
Number of credits *acquired at/transferred to APU	18 (〇)	12 (×)	14 (〇)	20 (〇)
GPA	2.5 (×)	Not assessed	Not assessed	3.0 (〇)
Assessment for Continuation (tentative)	Warning	Pending	Pending
Assessment for Continuation (final)		Warning = Revocation	Not eligible for the scholarship	Not eligible for the scholarship
Timing of assessment	After the release of 3rd Semester grades	During the 6th Semester after coming back to Japan →The numbers of credits acquired in and after the 4th Semester will be retroactively assessed*
Tuition fees you need to pay	The student is exempt from paying tuition	The student is exempt from paying tuition	The student needs to pay tuition fee	The student needs to pay tuition fee

* The student will be billed the following tuition amount if the student’s scholarship is retroactively revoked from the 5th Semester based on a retroactive assessment of the number of credits acquired in the 4th Semester:

6th Semester tuition invoice amount

Unpaid tuition fee for 5th Semester
750,000 JPY

+

Tuition fee for 6th Semester
750,000 JPY

=

1,500,000 JPY

* No matter what the situation, if you are studying at APU, the number of credits you obtained and your GPA will be assessed in the scholarship continuation screening.