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Qualifications

  • Master’s course applicants are required to have completed a bachelor’s degree or 16 years of education in a country other than Japan.
  • Doctoral course applicants are required to have completed a master’s degree course or equivalent degree in a country other than Japan.

As the qualifications vary among graduate schools, please refer to /examination-graduate/ for more details.

Admission Procedures

* Please note that the dates may differ depending on the year.

* Master’s course students enroll only in April regardless of the timing of the application.

Graduate School of Language & Literature

Fall admission Spring admission
Qualification screening of applicants Not conducted Early November
Application period Late August Early January
Date of entrance examination Late September Early February
Announcement of examination result Mid-October Mid-February
Enrollment Procedures Late October Mid-March

Graduate School of Administrative Studies

Fall admission Spring admission
Qualification screening of applicants Early July Early November
Application period Late August Early January
Date of entrance examination Late September Early February
Announcement of examination result Mid-October Mid-February
Enrollment Procedures Late October Mid-March

Graduate School of Environmental & Symbiotic Sciences

Fall admission Spring admission
Qualification screening of applicants Not conducted Mid-November
Application period Mid-July Early January
Date of entrance examination Late August Early February
Announcement of examination result Mid-October Mid-February
Enrollment Procedures Late October Mid-March

For more details, please refer to /examination-graduate/.

To apply for the International Postgraduate Scholarship for Research on Mercury, the procedures are different from the above.
Please refer to /english/graduate/mercury/.