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Relief Scholarship Eligibility and Qualifying Financial Hardship

This page explains the student requirements for the Relief Scholarship and the sudden changes in a primary household supporter’s financial circumstances that may qualify.

Student eligibility requirements

The eligibility requirements differ by academic year and faculty.

For the 2025 academic year, students covered by the Faculty of Engineering, including the Evening Division, the Faculty of System Design and Technology, the Faculty of Future Science, and the Faculty of Science and Technology must be enrolled at Tokyo Denki University or its Graduate School, be motivated to achieve academically, and be healthy in mind and body. Their primary household supporter must have experienced a qualifying sudden change in financial circumstances. The student must also be recognized as having difficulty paying educational expenses and as able to continue studying through the Relief Scholarship loan.

For the 2025 academic year, the regulation applying to the Faculty of System Design and Technology and the Faculty of Future Science describes the scholarship as intended for Tokyo Denki University students who are outstanding in character and have good academic performance, whose ability to pay educational expenses has become difficult because of a sudden change in household finances.

For the 2026 academic year, the eligibility requirements stated for the Faculty of Future Science are that the student be enrolled at Tokyo Denki University or its Graduate School, be motivated to achieve academically, be healthy in mind and body, have a primary household supporter who experienced a qualifying sudden change in economic circumstances, be recognized as having difficulty paying educational expenses, and be recognized as able to continue studying through the Relief Scholarship loan.

Qualifying sudden changes in financial circumstances

The listed qualifying circumstances include:

- unemployment or business bankruptcy or failure; - disaster; - long-term medical treatment; and - death of the primary household supporter.

For the 2025 academic year, these circumstances are stated for the Faculty of Engineering, the Faculty of Future Science, the Faculty of Science and Technology, and the Faculty of Engineering Evening Division, depending on the specific source. For the 2026 academic year, unemployment or business bankruptcy, disaster, long-term medical treatment, and death are listed for the Faculty of Future Science. Death is also specifically identified for the Faculty of Engineering at Tokyo Senju Campus.

Other circumstances may also qualify when the Relief Scholarship Student Selection Committee recognizes that they make payment of educational expenses difficult. This additional category is stated for the Faculty of Engineering and the Faculty of Future Science in the relevant academic-year materials.

Official sources

The following official Tokyo Denki University materials were used to prepare this page.