Student Exchange Program with 3 Universities in China, Korea and Thailand

HAGIAWARA Toru, TANAKA Hiroyuki, YOKOTA Hiroshi, KANIE Shunji and UEDA Tamon

Since 2012, when our civil engineering group started the international program for the undergraduate students, we have started the student exchange program with Harbin Institute of Technology, China, Hanyang University, Korea and Thammasat University, Thailand.  Under this scheme either undergraduate students or graduate students of Hokkaido University are sent the partner universities, and those of the partner universities are sent to Hokkaido University to spend for one semester or longer and to take credits by taking courses.  The JASSO scholarship is available for this program.  In FY2012 11 students of the three partner universities and 11 students of Hokkaido University participated in the program, while only 2 students of a partner university did in FY2013, in which JASSO scholarship was not available.