Nagoya-IU

• This is an IU-Administered Program
• Academic Year, Fall or Spring* Semester Program at Nanzan University's Center for Japanese Studies
• 150 international students (4-8 from IU)

* The spring application deadline will be in January, one year before your semester abroad. Applicants should consider that there will be fewer opportunities for cultural interaction with Nanzan students due to their academic break during most of your spring semester.

• 14-17 credits per semester
  • Intensive Japanese course (8 IU credits per semester)
  • More than 20 Japanese area studies courses taught in English and Japanese (6-9 credits for 2-3 courses each semester)

Course Equivalencies: Please see the Nagoya-IU course equivalency list for program enrollment requirements and a list of IU course equivalencies that students have received in the past.

• Nanzan University's Center for Japanese Studies
• Getting Started Handbook
• Diversity, Identity, and Accessibility Resources

• Japanese host families
• Dormitories

You may apply if you:

• are an undergraduate student at any Indiana University campus who is making normal academic progress
• are in at least your fourth full-time semester of college
• have taken or are enrolled in fourth semester college-level Japanese with a B average
• have at least a 3.0 cumulative GPA

* The spring application deadline will be in January, one year before your semester abroad. Applicants should consider that there will be fewer opportunities for cultural interaction with Nanzan students due to their academic break during most of your spring semester.

Students must have a passport valid for six months beyond program's end date.

Students must be able to demonstrate flexibility, resilience, and self-reliance.

Complete eligibility criteria and selection criteria are outlined within the Academic Policies and Procedures of Education Abroad. Selection is based on maturity, seriousness of purpose, and appropriateness of match between program and applicant. Students on disciplinary probation during program period are ineligible.

Academic Year 2024-2025

Fall 2024

Spring 2024

Financial Aid and Scholarships:

• Most IU scholarships, grants and loans applicable to program costs.
• Education Abroad Scholarships, including Scholarships for Students from IU campuses other than Bloomington.

• $1,000 Kaoru Ando Memorial Scholarships for academic year participants only

• IU Scott C. Schurz Pell Match Study Abroad Scholarships for resident undergraduate students with a Pell grant

• Possible Japanese government scholarship awarded on a competitive basis.

• National Freeman-ASIA Scholarship awarded on a competitive, need-based basis (applications due once a year in March)

Please see our financial aid page for general information and links to additional scholarship opportunities.