# Center for Promoting Graduate Studies

**Source**: https://pgd.tohoku.ac.jp/english/rpc/
**Parent**: https://pgd.tohoku.ac.jp/english/

## Center for Promoting Graduate Studies

The Center for Promoting Graduate Studies is a university-wide \
organization responsible for planning, coordinating, and advancing common \
educational programs and research support for graduate students.

Tohoku University has been selected for major national initiatives such as JST’s SPRING and BOOST programs, \
and has also launched its own original initiative, the AGS RISE Program. \
These efforts aim to strengthen support for doctoral students and ensure diverse and sustainable career pathways.

The center oversees and integrates all such support programs, \
working to provide a comprehensive and well-structured environment for the development of doctoral talent.

- [Center Top](https://pgd.tohoku.ac.jp/english/rpc/index.html)
- [About the Center](https://pgd.tohoku.ac.jp/english/rpc/about.html)
- Common Graduate School Subjects/\
  Cross-Graduate School Subjects
  - [Common Graduate School Subjects](https://pgd.tohoku.ac.jp/english/rpc/subjects.html#program_navi)
  - [Cross-Graduate School Subjects](https://pgd.tohoku.ac.jp/english/rpc/subjects.html#crossgraduate)
- [AGS RISE Program](https://pgd.tohoku.ac.jp/english/rpc/RISE.html)
- [SPRING](https://pgd.tohoku.ac.jp/english/rpc/next_generation.html)
- [BOOST\
   (NEXT-AI)](https://pgd.tohoku.ac.jp/english/rpc/next_generation_AI.html)

[Transferable Skills Development Program](https://pgd.tohoku.ac.jp/english/rpc/transferable/)

[Recipient’s Page\
(AGS RISE Program)](https://pgd.tohoku.ac.jp/english/rpc/recruiter_only_RISE/)

[Recipient’s Page\
(Pioneering Research Support Project)](https://pgd.tohoku.ac.jp/english/rpc/recruiter_only/)

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**【TU-AGS LEAP Program】**Starting in April 2026\
[※TU-AGS LEAP Program](https://pgd.tohoku.ac.jp/data/r7/LEAP_E20260306.pdf)\

[〇Application Guidelines（April AY2026）](https://pgd.tohoku.ac.jp/data/r7/01-2.E_Application Guidelines (Standard Track)2026.4.pdf)\
[〇FAQ（As of March 12, 2026）](https://pgd.tohoku.ac.jp/data/r7/LEAPQA_E202604.pdf)

### \*Concluded Support Program

- [University Fellowship Foundation Program (April 2021 －March 2024)](https://pgd.tohoku.ac.jp/english/rpc/fellowship.html)