Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie
Hi there,
There is an issue with role permissions that is being worked on at the moment.
If you are having trouble with access or permissions on regional forums please post here to get access: https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058365403/you-do-not-have-permission-for-that#latest

Japanese DCU vs UL

  • 04-11-2012 12:49pm
    #1
    morningpeasant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 163 ✭✭


    Hi,
    I was just wondering if anyone knows how Japanese at DCU compares with Japanese at UL? It seems DCU has links with some pretty good universities in Japan for study abroad, but I wonder how difficult they are to get into. Aslo, do they make scholarships available?


Comments

  • #2
    Konata
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,164 ✭✭✭Konata


    Regarding difficulty in getting into the universities - well, you'll definitely get a place somewhere anyway. The only people you'll be competing with to get a place is your classmates. It's pretty much done by results and then preference ie. the person with the best results in the class gets their 1st preference of university etc. Only 2 or 3 students go to each university from the class.

    Yes, there are scholarships available. There's one big one which pretty much covers the entire cost of going to Japan for the year but there's lots of smaller ones available too.


  • #3
    morningpeasant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 163 ✭✭morningpeasant


    Konata wrote: »
    Regarding difficulty in getting into the universities - well, you'll definitely get a place somewhere anyway. The only people you'll be competing with to get a place is your classmates. It's pretty much done by results and then preference ie. the person with the best results in the class gets their 1st preference of university etc. Only 2 or 3 students go to each university from the class.

    Yes, there are scholarships available. There's one big one which pretty much covers the entire cost of going to Japan for the year but there's lots of smaller ones available too.

    Thank you for your reply
    Have you been to Japan as part of the program yourself?
    Do most students get the big scholarship?


  • #4
    Konata
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,164 ✭✭✭Konata


    morningpeasant wrote: »
    Thank you for your reply
    Have you been to Japan as part of the program yourself?
    Do most students get the big scholarship?

    No, I'm in 2nd year of ALIS so I'll be going to Japan next September.

    No, they don't. There's only one big scholarship for one student in the class. We're told it's based on exam results, attendance, participation in class etc. etc.


  • #5
    snorp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6 ✭snorp


    Konata, is that scholarship for students of Japanese only or for the whole Applied Languages class?


  • #6
    Konata
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,164 ✭✭✭Konata


    snorp wrote: »
    Konata, is that scholarship for students of Japanese only or for the whole Applied Languages class?

    Well that particular one is only for Japanese students. I don't know about the other languages as I've only ever been concerned with going to Japan. I'm sure they have scholarships too but I presume they would be a lot less money since it's much much cheaper to go to France/Germany/Spain than to Japan.


  • Advertisement
Advertisement