Information on Admission
Guide to admission (for students who want to study at Shizuoka University)
About 11,000 students are studying at Shizuoka University. International exchange is actively promoted and about 300 foreign students are also learning here. And, in addition, the students of our university aggressively take part in exchanges with collaborating universities.
If you are a student leaning at a collaborating university, you can study at Shizuoka University for a half to one year without having to pay tuition.
Studying abroad
Shizuoka University has six faculties. If you want to study abroad at Shizuoka University, you must first take a test for foreign students to Japan. The subject matter of the test differs according to each faculty. Ask the admissions office to send you the “Guidelines for Admission of Privately Funded Foreign Applicants” and see the qualifications for applicants. Lessons are given by the faculties in Japanese for a four-year period.
Going on to graduate school
Shizuoka University has eight graduate schools.
1.For doctorate programs, please refer to the guidelines for the Graduate School of Science and Technology.
2.For master’s programs, check if you have the following qualifications for application.
- If you have residency in Japan without Japanese citizenship, you must be able to change your residence visa to a “study visa” or change your visa to a “study visa” at the time of admission.
- Those who have completed 16 years of education in a foreign country.
Those who have completed 15 years of education and are recognized by our university as having obtained specified credits with excellent results.
If you meet the above-mentioned conditions, select a research department you want to specialize in from amongst the research departments in the “Shizuoka University Guide” and ask for the “Guidelines for Applicants”
[About research student system]
If you are recognized as a graduate from a university faculty or having an academic ability higher than this, you can be a research student. However, you cannot obtain a degree. You can study and research your specialized subject for about half a year or 1 year under the guidance of a professor at our university. To be a research student, it is necessary to find a professor who can give guidance about the subject you want to study and get permission from him or her.
[About Japanese language proficiency]
As for master’s programs in the ”Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences”and a”Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences”, a certain level of Japanese language proficiency is required for study.
In the Faculty of Engineering” and a “Graduate Schoolof Engineering”, you can study in English in some lessons, but lessons and research are done in Japanese in principle.
In doctorate programs, you can do research activities in English. In any case, Japanese language is the main language in daily life.
Tuition fees
Privately funded foreign students (undergraduate, graduate) must pay the tuition fees.
- Admission fee:282,000yen
- Tuition fee: 535,800yen for year (267,900yen for half year)
When going through the admission process, you must pay the total amount (549,900yen) of both the admission fee and the tuition fee for a half year. If the tuition fee is revised while you are a student, the new tuition fee is applied from the time of revision.
Exemption of tuition fee
If a student runs into difficulty paying the tuition fee due to compelling reasons after being admitted to our university, we will examine the student’s results of study and economic status upon his or her request and may waive half or all of the tuition fees. For details, consult the Student Life Section of the School Affairs Department for Students at Shizuoka Campus, and the staff in charge of foreign students belonging to the related bureau for students in Hamamatsu Campus.
Scholarships
Students leaning at Shizuoka University can apply for the following scholarships. There are two ways to get the scholarship: one is to apply through the university and the other is to apply directly.
