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In graduate school, earning a master's degree requires completing over 30 credits and earning a doctoral degree requires completing over 20 credits in lectures, exercises and research. The further scholars advance, lectures and the like decrease, and laboratory research for master theses and doctoral dissertations increasingly takes a central role. Scholars thus receive personalized research guidance from their laboratory supervisors, participate in joint research, and become devoted to study and research on a daily basis. In addition to conducting research in the laboratories during graduate school, scholars more often than develop strong relationships with upper and lower classmen, and graduate school departments provide many recreational activities such as hiking in the spring and autumn, swimming in the summer, skiing in the winter and the like as well. Faculty of Engineering graduates primarily continue their education in the following 4 graduate schools.

School of Engineering

The School of Engineering at the University of Tokyo has a standard two-year master's degree course and three-year doctoral degree course. It is possible for those achieving excellent results to shorten their enrollment period to complete both the master’s and doctoral degrees. The School of Engineering consists of eighteen departments. Among those are the Department of Nuclear Engineering and Management, and the Nuclear Professional School established in 2005, the Department of Bioengineering, and the Department of Technology Management for Innovation established in 2006, and the Department of Electrical Engineering and the Department of Systems Innovation established in 2008. The School of Medicine and the School of Engineering established the academic Cooperative Medicine and Engineering Program in 2005 as well. Admission to the School of Engineering is open to college graduates from around the nation, and no discrepancy is made between those from Faculty of Engineering at the University of Tokyo and those from other universities who are all administered the same entrance examination. In addition to faculty members in the Faculty of Engineering, education is conducted by faculty members from other departments corresponding with given majors, from the University of Tokyo Institute of Industrial Science (Komaba), Institute for Solid State Properties (Kashiwa), Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology (Komaba), and Earthquake Research Institute, as well as from extramural facilities with connections to the University of Tokyo such as the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Institute of Space and Astronautical Science and the National Institute of Informatics and the like. Like School of Engineering faculty members, these faculty members present lectures, conduct exercises, and provide in research guidance. In addition, we have accreditation agreements with the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Saitama University and the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies. We have exchange programs with forty-five other universities including those overseas in the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Sweden, Norway, China, Korea, Thailand, Brazil, New Zealand, Russia, Turkey, the Netherlands, Slovenia, Hungary, Italy, Australia, Sri Lanka, Finland, Canada, Singapore, Denmark and Vietnam among others, and exchange takes place every year. The School of Engineering has a large number of exchange students enrolled in master's programs, doctoral programs, graduate research students, and international graduate research students. Although their countries and regions of origin span the globe, many of them come from China, Korea, India, Thailand and Taiwan. Since exchange students not only study and conduct research closely alongside but also often engage in extracurricular activities with Japanese students, as well as of course having research results in common, there are numerous opportunities for cultural exchange and sharing goodwill between their home countries and Japan.

The School of Engineering : https://www.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/en/soe

Graduate School of Information Science and Technology

The Graduate School of Information Science and Technology (IST) was newly established at the University of Tokyo in April 2001 to augment the foundation for information science and technology in the 21st century and to develop new concepts. The IST consists of six departments: Computer Science, Mathematical Informatics, Information Physics & Computing, Information & Communication Engineering, Mechano-Informatics, and Creative Informatics; and to strengthen collaboration with industry, strategic IT and biotechnological information processing courses taught by visiting professors have also been established. Information is the foundation for the society- knowledge axis in the 21st century, and its research and education needs to be enriched and enlarged both in extent and depth. As the reliance on information science and technology in society, industry, and personal life increases, to acquire an adequate foundation of knowledge with society, we are expected to lead industry by strengthening basic fields, improving the foundation, and creating new ideas and science and technology that traverse traditional academic discipline boundaries. Thus, we need to offer a method for constructing an advanced intelligent information system, a sort of central nervous system for society, and make further strides in developing society into the future. Although the organization related to information sciences in science and technology courses at the University of Tokyo previously placed it in departments in the School of Science and the School of Engineering, in response to the matters outlined above the graduate schools were reorganized and restructured into a new school, IST. In this way, we realize a flexibility that allows new progress backed by functional role sharing and scale merit, as well as effective integration and the consolidation of information-related education and research towards a new era. And with a close collaborative relationship with industry, we strive to produce advanced research results and foster talented individuals who are capable of demonstrating leadership in a globalized world.

The Graduate School of Information Science and Technology : https://www.i.u-tokyo.ac.jp/index_e.shtml

Graduate School of Frontier Sciences

The Graduate School of Frontier Sciences is an independent graduate school that has no undergraduate faculty affiliation. The Kashiwa Campus, which forms the third bastion following the Hongo Campus and Komaba Campus, is the base of departmental activity. In the School of Frontier Sciences, three divisions were established to pioneer new fields based upon the basic concept of a transdisciplinary study of science. Namely, these three divisions are the Division of Transdisciplinary Sciences in which new academic fields that subsequently become the foundation for the engineering and physics frontier are created; the Division of Biosciences in which both the structure and function of life, as well as at various levels from a molecule up to a specimen are grasped through advanced education and research; and the Division of Environmental Studies in which the environment encompassing humanity is analyzed from the viewpoints of nature, culture, and society and education and research required for policy planning and technology development for mankind are conducted.

The Division of Transdisciplinary Sciences has three departments: Materials Science, Advanced Energy, and Complexity Science and Engineering; the Division of Biosciences has two departments: Integrated Biosciences, and Computational Biology and Medical Sciences; the Division of Environmental Studies has six departments: Natural Environmental Studies, Ocean Technology, Environmental Systems, Human and Engineered Environmental Studies, Socio-Cultural Environmental Studies, and International Studies. Additionally, there is the Department of Computational Biology in which information and measurement technologies that are the foundation of next-generation bioscience are developed through research that captures life phenomena from an information science perspective. Many faculty members in these departments concurrently work in the Faculty of Engineering, and many students are accepted from the Faculty of Engineering.

The Graduate School of Frontier Sciences : https://www.k.u-tokyo.ac.jp/en/

The University of Tokyo III / GSII

The dual structure comprising the III and GSII began its existence in the year 2000. It is a flexible network-like organization for graduate-level research and education that seeks to bind together the various fields of research related to “information” previously carried out separately in different departments of the University of Tokyo. It is structured in such a way that its two main components (III and GSII) work in tandem while retaining their separate identities as organizations devoted to research and education respectively. Together they form a creative and innovative structure for the pursuit of advanced research and education in all areas of the broad academic field of information studies.

Information is bringing about radical change in all areas of human civilization, including consciouness and behavior, life and the body, society and culture, technology and art, industry and the political economy, law and policy, and international relations and the environment. The very structure of academic knowledge is also being transformed. There are calls for a “restructuring of knowledge” based on the common language of “information”. It is therefore the mission of the III/GSII to pursue advanced research and education that reformulates “knowledge” around the node of “information”. By exploring all aspects of a broadly conceived field of “information studies”, the aim is to contribute purposefully to the “restructuring of knowledge” with a commitment to the public nature of knowledge.

The University of Tokyo III and GSII : https://www.iii.u-tokyo.ac.jp/

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2024.05.13: Additional information at Entrance Examination Briefing has been appended. 2024.05.10: Method for Briefing session (tentative) of Information and Communication Engineering at ＜Briefing Session for each department＞, Entrance Examination Briefing has been revised. 2024.04.24: Start Time (tentative) of Information and Communication Engineering at ＜Briefing Session for each department＞, Entrance Examination Briefing has been changed. 2024.04.19: Information on the AY2025 Entrance Examinations (conducted in AY2024) of the Graduate School of IST has been released. 2023.03.22: Information on the AY2025 Entrance Examination Briefing has been released 2024.01.31: The announcement "[Important] On the expected changes in the method of the entrance examination in Special Admission for “English Program on Intelligent Information Processing” from AY2025 Entrance Examinations (conducted in AY2024) " has been released.

An overview of the types of entrance examinations and the schedule for AY2025 entrance examinations (conducted in AY2024) at this Graduate School is given in the following document.

Overview of the Entrance Examination System at the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo

Japanese Government (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, MEXT) Scholarship students (Research Students) (Embassy Recommendation) will be accepted as Graduate International Research Students (non-degree) at this Graduate School, in principle. Please refer to here for more details. If the applicant wishes to proceed to the Master's or Doctoral programs after they entered as a Graduate International Research Student, they will need to take and pass the entrance examinations (Regular Admission or Special Selection for Professionals).

*AY stands for "academic year". In Japan, each academic year is from April to March in the next year.

The application periods for AY2025 entrance examinations (conducted in AY2024) for Master's and Doctoral programs (entrance date: October 2024, April 2025, or October 2025) (Regular Admission and Special Selection for Professionals) are as follows.

【 Summer Examinations 】

【 winter examinations 】, entrance examination briefing     (released on mar 22, 2024)　 (closed).

Entrance Examination Briefing for AY2025 Entrance Examinations will be held as follows. Those who wish to participate in the briefing should submit the entry form . Those who have completed the registration through the entry form will receive an email containing the URL, which includes the necessary information for participation in the Entrance Examination Briefing and detailed information for the Briefing.

Date: May 11 (Sat), 2024

＜Briefing Session on the Graduate School＞ This is a pre-recorded video session, consisting of: *Introduction of the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology *Introduction of each department, etc. (The videos will be made available on the website for examination briefing.)

＜Briefing Session for each department＞ This session includes; *Guidance of each department including lab tours (varies by department)

【 Admission Guide for Master ‘ s and Doctoral Programs of the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, the University of Tokyo 】

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• Accompanying document to the Admission Guide : “Timeline of Enrollment Procedures for New International Students”

【Admission Guide for Each Department】

• Information Physics and Computing
• Information and Communication Engineering

Those who wish to apply for the AY2025 Summer Entrance Examinations (conducted in AY2024) should follow the procedures below.

1. Prepare the necessary materials for your application

Check the Admission Guide of the Graduate School and your preferred department and prepare the necessary materials for your application. Please keep the original of the Academic Transcript submitted as a copy during the admission process, as it is required at the time of enrollment procedure. The original of Certificate of Graduation/Completion/Degree is also required at the time of enrollment procedure.

2. Enter the required information to the WEB Application System below and create the application form

(available from May 31) WEB Application System (Master ’s Program) WEB Application System (Doctoral Program) WEB Application System (Doctoral Program [Special Selection for Professionals])

3. Pay your examination fee

1) Bank Transfer (in Japan): Use the Transfer Application Form from the "WEB Application System" and ask a teller to transfer your examination fee.

2) E-shiharai.net (by credit card / at a convenience store, etc.): Refer to " How to make Payment of Examination Fee at E-shiharai.net " and pay your examination fee as instructed.

→ Click  here to navigate to "E-shiharai.net". 【available period : May 23 (Thu), 2024 - June 6 (Thu), 2024】

• The following applicants are exempted from their examination fee payment.

* those who are expected to complete a Master's program or Professional degree program at the University of Tokyo in March 2025 and proceed to a Doctoral program in April 2025 * those who are expected to complete a Master's program or Professional degree program at the University of Tokyo in September 2024 and proceed to a Doctoral program in October 2024 * international students on scholarships from the Japanese government (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, MEXT)

• Entrance Examination Fee Exemption for Applicants for Admission Affected by Natural Disasters.

The University of Tokyo has taken the decision to waive the payment of entrance examination fees by applicants affected by natural disasters such as earthquakes, typhoons, floods, etc., to lighten the economic burden and to secure the opportunity of admission for applicants. If you wish to apply for the exemption of the examination fee for the AY2025 Summer Entrance Examinations of the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, please refer to the following notice and mail the required documents to the address given below by a traceable method.

Application Period: May 14 (Tue), 2024 – May 21 (Tue), 2024 Office of Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo Engineering building No.8 (Room# 162), 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan 113 8656 TEL 03 5841 7926

If you wish to apply after the application period, please contact us directly by email. johoriko.t(at)gs.mail.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Entrance Examination Fee Exemption for Applicants for Admission Affected by Natural Disasters Application Form

4. WEB Application System: Upload all required documents, and "CONFIRM" application on My Page

【Important】 Even if you create the application form, your application will not be completed until all required items are uploaded and also until you "confirm" your application on " My Page" before the deadline. Refer to instructions on "My Page" about how to "confirm" your application, etc.

Convert all the required documents into PDF files , and after you have uploaded them to the  WEB Application System:My Page   (available after creating the application form), click "Confirm" to “confirm” your application .

The (strict) deadline for uploading: 17:00 (JST), June 6 (Thu), 2024

• When your application has been confirmed on "My Page", "Application Confirmed" will be displayed on Status of Your Application, and you will receive a confirmation notice at your registered email address. Please make sure to check if your application has been confirmed on "My Page".

5. Submission of Recommendation Letters 　 (Only for applicants who are required to submit）

Examinees should ask their recommenders to provide a Recommendation Letter. Examinees applying to the Department of Information and Communication Engineering are required to download the specific form from here and send it to their recommenders.

Examinees should register the necessary information about the examinees (their application receipt numbers, names, email addresses, etc.) and their recommenders (names, affiliations, positions, email addresses, etc.) through the " Registration Form for Recommender ". (available from May 31)

The URL for uploading the recommendation letter will be notified to the recommender by email.

The recommender should upload the recommendation letter to the website indicated in that email.

【The deadline for uploading the recommendation letter】 23:59 (JST), June 13 (Thu), 2024

After the recommender completes uploading, both the recommender and the examinee will receive a confirmation message by email.

For details on how to submit your TOEFL Institutional Score Report, refer to the " Guidelines for Submission of TOEFL Scores (for AY2025 Entrance Examinations) ".

Application for SPRING GX Project Students There will be a call for SPRING GX project students during some time between the application deadline for entrance examinations and the enrollment date. If you wish to apply, please check the webpage regularly for the latest information.

Statistics on Past Entrance Exams (updated on May 16, 2024)

Archives of Past Entrance Exams    (updated in April 2024)

2023.12.26 : The announcement "[Important] On TOEFL Score submission for the entrance examination of the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, the University of Tokyo" has been released.

2023.10.27 : the announcement "[important] on the winter entrance examinations of department of information physics and computing for master’s program" has been released., 2023.06.21 : the announcement "[important] on the expected changes from ay2025 entrance examinations (conducted in ay2024)" has been released..

Please refer to here .

Office of Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo TEL: +81-3-5841-7926/7428 johoriko.t(at)gs.mail.u-tokyo.ac.jp * Please replace (at) with @ when sending a message.

Contact us via E-mail instead of calling. Before you contact us, please check the above FAQ. See  here for the open hours of the Office of Graduate School of IST.

We will reply to your questions during weekdays (except Saturdays, Sundays, and Japanese national holidays) from 9:00 to 17:00 in JST. Please contact us early if you have any questions, as it can take several days for us to answer your questions.

In particular, please note that it may take a long time to answer your questions during the period just before the Summer Entrance Examinations, due to the “Obon” holiday season in Japan. During that time, our office may be closed on weekdays, in addition to Saturdays, Sundays, and national holidays.

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Department of Community and Global Health offers master degree and Ph.D. programs for those who have professional experiences in medicine or public health. These programs consist of course works conducted in English as well as field studies for dissertation research. Students typically conduct quantitative analysis based on their field studies. Our master degree program starts in April every year whereas our Ph.D. program receives new students twice a year, in April and October. For admission, including application procedures and deadlines, visit the website of Graduate School of Medicine, the University of Tokyo . Note that Department of Community and Global Health currently stopped accepting new Ph.D. students. It accepts master's degree students under the ADB-Japan Scholarship Program on an exceptional basis.

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Visit the websites of Office of International Students and School of International Health for introduction to scholarship for overseas students. In addition to the scholarship programs listed in that website, the school helps prospective students to obtain scholarship offered by external organizations, including Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT or Monbukagakusho) and Japan Student Services Organization (JASSO). For prospective students from developing member countries of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), Department of Community and Global Health accepts applicants of ADB – Japan Scholarship Program (JSP). Exemptions of admission and tuition fees are offered for self-funded students who have financial difficulties in funding the fees and demonstrate outstanding academic achievement. Housing Office helps prospective and current students to find accomodations during their studies at the University of Tokyo.

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Graduate Program on Environmental Sciences (GPES)

The Graduate Program on Environmental Sciences (GPES) is an extension of its undergraduate counterpart, the International Program on Environmental Sciences. The undergraduate program trains students to develop a unique set of skills, allowing them to analyze, critique, propose and define environmental policy from economic, cultural and political viewpoints, based on a platform of basic science and technology, which covers aspects from basic physics and chemistry to environmental processes such as ecological systems and methods for measuring global material circulation. The graduate program deepens this concept, and fosters human assets who will be able to address deep-rooted problems in an expert manner. Students are able to choose their area of specialization from a wide range of relevant fields including natural and agricultural sciences, industrial technologies, and social sciences, including economics, politics and other related disciplines.

Since this program wishes to be open to people from all over the world with variety of backgrounds concerning environmental issues, students are able to complete their degrees by taking classes instructed in the English language alone. Students not only work with researchers in the Department of Multi-Disciplinary Sciences, but under the cooperation of the University of Tokyo's various graduate schools and research institutes, are also able to research across a wide variety of fields while being affiliated with their respective laboratories. GPES accepts a wide variety of students, from those who wish to address certain environmental issues, or those who wish to contribute to the betterment of society, to those who aspire to become researchers and deepen their academic research.

For more information about the program and its entrance examinations, please refer to the Graduate Program on Environmental Sciences (GPES) website.

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Kamora Millan ’24 is a senior — majoring in anthropology and minoring in sociology — who studied at Japan’s Kanda University of International Studies with IES Tokyo in the autumn of ’23.

Why Japan? It had been one of those far-off dreams since she was a kid but she wanted to see if she could somehow get there. With the help of SU’s Study Abroad Office, she got accepted into the IES Abroad program in Japan, making her long-standing dream a reality.

Upon her arrival, she found the program welcoming and very accommodating for people who were learning Japanese, especially as there were many opportunities for students to get more experience and immerse themselves in the culture. The staff always sponsored local events that students were welcome to join and there were different happenings, festivals, and community service opportunities to do. Kanda University was very English-friendly, as most of the classes were taught in English – even the lower-level Japanese language classes – so it was quite accessible for English speakers. The department, she recalled, had a building where the second floor was English only — a popular hangout spot for international students and Japanese students trying to learn English. At Kanda, she accepted a field placement: a seminar where she was assigned to work at an international daycare and a Pre-K as an assistant teacher, an opportunity that allowed her to fully immerse herself in the culture. When fellow recent graduate Aria Arifi interviewed her, she emphasized that the main advantages of the program were her host university, her incredible host family, and the opportunity for cultural immersion.

When asked what her favorite memory of her time abroad in Japan was, she answered:

“I guess to others it may seem small, but to me it really meant everything: there was this one day where, after classes let out, my friends and I were hanging out in one of the university buildings and we decided we were going to go to a BookOff (which was a second-hand shop) and […] just gonna go there [to] browse books, whatever — we weren’t even gonna buy anything. We’d look at video games and we’d laugh about nothing and just have a good time there. Then, when it got a little later, we were hungry and decided to go a little down the street to a little conveyor sushi shop; going between the warm buildings along the cool, brisk street, I found myself really happy because that was the sort of situation I’d always longed for in my life: just walking around places with friends. That freedom between academics and family — there were no expectations in the moment, it was just the moment.

You’re there with your friends and that’s all that matters; we want to go see something, we went to see it — we were hungry, we went to go eat. It meant a lot to me, and I’ll regard that night as one of my favorites in Japan; it meant the world to me”.

Thanks to this experience, she realized that teaching English and translating are one hundred percent going to be a part of her future. Kamora expressed desire to go back to Japan, get into translation work, and teach English; an idea she admits, pushes her to move forward: “Well, you wanna go back? Let’s get working!”

For other students venturing abroad, she advises them to do some research on the culture they’ll be immersed in before they go there and to keep an open mind:

“The world is so much bigger than the United States, there are so many different perspectives and ways to think about things, and you should be open to at least trying to understand those perspectives. Being open allowed me to have a much better time in Japan than some of my other classmates”.

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