Applicants who have completed upper secondary education and an undergraduate program outside of Japan, and have obtained or are expecting to obtain a Master’s degree or equivalent outside of Japan by the end of March 2021 are eligible to apply for the January exam schedule for Special Selection for Foreign Graduates.
This schedule is not available for graduates of domestic undergraduate programs.
Additional eligibility requirements can be found in the Graduate School of Frontier Sciences Guidelines for Applicants.
Tuesday, November 16, 2021 – Thursday, November 25, 2021.
Use the provided checklist to verify that you have all the required application materials. The checklist is also available on the back of the print version of the Admission Questionnaire (Doctoral Program)
Please complete the printed version of the Admission Questionnaire.
Make sure to submit the Admission Questionnaire and indicate in the Questionnaire that you wish to use the January exam schedule for the Special Selection for Foreign Graduates.
Read the 2022 Guidelines for Applicants to the Doctoral Program of the Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, contact the faculty of the group of interest, and discuss possible research projects.
The applicant must contact the faculty of the laboratory of interest prior to applying. However, such conversations are prohibited after application submission.
Applicants must submit a TOEFL score report in lieu of the foreign language examination. As for TOEFL-iBT, we do not accept the MyBest score but use the Test Date score.
Applicants must request ETS to send an Institutional Score Report to the Graduate School for Frontier Sciences (GSFS). The Report must arrive at GSFS no later than Friday, January 21 (Tue), 2022.
The applicants will take an individualized subject examination.
Special Selection applicants can receive English translations of the exam questions and have the option to answer in English.
Applicants should be prepared to make a 20-minute presentation on their Master’s thesis research (using a computer, a projector is provided). Each applicant should bring a copy of their Master’s thesis and 20 copies of a 3-page (A4 paper) research summary.
The subject and oral examinations will be administered at the end of January 2022.
For details regarding the examination venue, refer to the Examination Schedule and List of Examination Venues accompanying the examination admission ticket.
Admitted applicants will be able to begin the study program in April 2022.
For general questions related to the application procedures, fees, tuition costs, and schedules, refer to the entrance exam information page of the Graduate School of Frontier Sciences.
Additional information for prospective international students is available from the International Liaison Office.
For questions regarding the entrance examination of the Department of Advanced Materials Science, please contact Professor Kohzo ITO (email: kohzo@k.u-tokyo.ac.jp). For all other department-related inquiries, please contact the Department Office (phone: +81-(0)4-7136-3821).
For inquiries related to the entrance examination of the Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, Guidelines for Applicants, and other required documents, please contact the Student Affairs Section of the Graduate School (phone: +81-(0)4-7136-4092) or the International Liaison Office (phone: +81-(0)4-7136-4561) (contact information).