This December the Department will be celebrating our 50th Anniversary with a banquet to be held at the Renissance Hotel downtown, join us for a night of more...
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Prospective Students
Thank you for your interest in the Asian Studies program at the University of British Columbia. The following information will assist you as you consider applying for admission to one of the following degree programs.
Admission to the M. A. program in Asian Studies normally requires a Bachelor of Arts with first-class standing in Chinese, Japanese, Korean or South Asian languages. This implies at least four years of language study; in the case of East Asian languages, applicants who also have experience studying the target language intensively in-country for an extended period of time tend to advance through our program more quickly. The Department is prepared, in exceptional circumstances, to accept a limited number of students who are otherwise well qualified and show linguistic aptitude but have less than this amount of preparation in language. Such students will be required to spend one or two extra years in their M. A. program making up this deficiency.
Admission to the Ph.D. program in Asian Studies normally requires an M. A. in Asian Studies or its equivalent. Before admittance, candidates for the Ph.D. program must have an adequate command of one of the following languages: Chinese, Japanese, Hindi/Urdu, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Korean or Indonesian. In the case of Chinese, this will mean a competent reading knowledge of both modern and classical forms of the language.
In special cases, PhD degree programs can be arranged jointly between Asian studies and other departments. For interdisciplinary programs, please contact the Interdisciplinary Studies Graduate Program directly http://www.isgp.ubc.ca/
The University of British Columbia’s Faculty of Graduate Studies offers a multi-year scholarship program for top PhD students. Commencing in the 2009–2010 academic year, the Four-Year Fellowship (4YF) program greatly enhances the ability of UBC’s graduate programs to support the best PhD students from across Canada and around the globe.
To learn more please visit http://www.grad.ubc.ca/think-phd-ubc-four-year-fellowship-4yf
Those interested in Asia-related modern history, political science, commerce, economics, geography, fine arts, anthropology or sociology, should apply to the department concerned.
Please be advised that we don’t accept late applications and we don’t have January nor May admissions.