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Admission guideline

Undergraduate program

Official launguage for the undergraduate program at the Tokyo Tech is Japanese. Student who completes the program receives Bachelor of Engineering degree.

There are two ways for foreign applicants to gain admission to the Department of International Development Engineering (IDE). Please note that all examinations, either oral and/or written formats, are conducted in Japanese. You can choose either of the procedure upon your preference.

  1. You should take both university entrance examination administered by the National Center for University Entrance Examinations (NCUEE, website in Japanese), and the entrance examination administered by Tokyo Tech (Admission Division). These are the same requirements as regular Japanese students.
  2. You should take the Examination for Japanese University Admission for International Students (EJU) administered by Japan Student Services Organization (JASSO), and the Special Screening Examination for Foreign Undergraduate Students administered by Tokyo Tech. These requirements are specifically coducted for foreign students.

Please refer the following websites for the details:

Graduate program

The Department offers master and doctor programs. The standard periods for master and doctor programs are two and three years respectively.

In regular program, both Japanese and English are used. A few positions of the Japanese Government (Monbukagakusho, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, a.k.a. MEXT) scholarship are available, to cover Japanese language training, preparatory program called research studentship, and degree program (after admission screening).

You can also apply for International Graduate Program (IGP) without prerequisite of Japanese language skills. All lectures in IGP are taught in English. Several different sub-programs of IGP are available as the following.

  1. You can apply for the standard master and doctor programs respectively. Both domestic and overseas applications are acceptable. The application deadline is late May (overseas) or early July (domestic).
  2. You can specifically apply for Sustainable Engineering Program (SEP). SEP is provided as Integrated Doctoral Education Program, in which students are expected to study both master and doctor programs continuously. A few positions of the Japanese Government (MEXT) scholarship are available. Only overseas applications are acceptable. The application deadline is December.
  3. IDE can offer a few full-funding scholarships by Asian Development Bank – Japan Scholarship Program (ADB-JSP) only for those who wish to enroll in master degree program.  Please note that the scholarship does not support those who wish to enroll in doctoral program.  Please check this page for further information.

 

For the summary of the information above, please see the table below.

Program names Degrees Languages in lectures Potential scholarship
Japanese English
Regular Guraduate Program Master of Engineering o o MEXT
Doctor of Engineering o o MEXT
International Graduate Program Standard program Master of Engineering o
Doctor of Engineering o
Sustainable Engineering Program (SEP) Master of Engineering and Doctor of Engineering (Integrated Doctral Education Program) o MEXT
 Asian Development Bank – Japan Scholarship Program (ADB-JSP) Master of Engineering or Master of Arts only o ADB-JSP

Note: Mext scholarship is quite competitive so that you are not guranteed for it. It is stongly encounraged for applicants to search for other funding sources by yourself. JASSO provides useful information about potential scholarships for the study in Japan.

Please refer the following websites for the details:

Financial support

At the Tokyo Tech, there are several alternatives for the financial support but applicants are strongly encouraged to secure necessary financial resoureces for study by themselves.

Scholarships are available from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), Japan Student Services Organization (JASSO), and other private foundations. Detail is available on “Prospectus for International Students.”

A doctor student who has no scholarship is assigned as a research and/or teaching assistant and receive the equivalent amount of stipend to the tuition (only).

Students who have difficulty paying admission and tution fees may be exempted from half the amount of admission fee and/or either the full amount or half the amount of tuition fees, following screening of their petitions.

Please refer the following websites for the details: