Ajinomoto offers postgraduate scholarship

MANILA, Philippines — The desire to embark on a postgraduate degree study is usually disrupted with an obstacle along the way – your financial situation. Some are unsuccessful in pursuing this dream since investing in a postgraduate education would require financial sacrifice.

Ajinomoto Philippines Corp. (APC) through the Ajinomoto Scholarship Foundation will help qualified candidates achieve this goal with its 2021 Ajinomoto Postgraduate Scholarship Grant that supports deserving Filipino students who require financial assistance to pursue higher education in the field of sciences.

The Ajinomoto Scholarship Foundation, formerly named as the Suzuki Scholarship Foundation was established in Japan in 1957. The postgraduate scholarship grant which was introduced in the Philippines in 2010 provides a full scholarship in master’s course at specified graduate schools in top Japanese universities including University of Tokyo, Kyoto University, Nagoya University, Ochanomizu University, Waseda University, Kagawa Nutrition University and Tokyo Institute of Technology.

The University of Tokyo and Kyoto University are among Japan’s top universities with the former ranking 36th at the World University Rankings 2020 list of Times Higher Education. The list includes nearly 1,400 top institutions around the world, measuring each institution’s around the world, measuring each institution‘s “performance across teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook.”

As a global company food and amino science company, Ajinomoto aims to cultivate the educational development of prospective students who are interested to continue master’s studies in the fields of nutrition or health sciences. Aspirants may also consider applying in other science courses like Medicine, Engineering, Agricultural and Life Science, Pharmaceutical Science, Frontier Science, Information Science and Technology, Mathematical Science, Biostudies and such.

APC has so far sent 10 Filipino scholars to Japan including 2019 recipient, Kimberly Castro, who graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial Pharmacy at the University of the Philippines Manila.

Interested applicants may log on to www.ajinomoto.com.ph/whats-new/ for more details on the scholarship grant. Deadline of application is on March 1. For inquiries, you may contact Deborah Sales, RND at +(63)2 895-6081, Local 8137 or through email, [email protected]