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Kyushu University

Kyushu University, in Fukuoka, Japan, has 7 undergraduate courses listed on StudyPath. International tuition is JP¥535,800 a year. Kyushu University publishes its own accommodation prices, from JP¥18,500 per month. 5 of the 7 publish an application deadline. 3 named scholarships are recorded against these courses. Every figure above was read from Kyushu University's own published pages and last checked on 24 August 2026.

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7
Fees verified
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Scholarship entries
15
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courses

5 of 7

Bachelor · 4 years · Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Computer Science

International tuition

JP¥535,800 per year

~JP¥2,143,200 for the whole 4 years, at today's fee
Verified

As of April 1, 2020 · Same rate across the institution · All students — no separate international rate

Kyushu University is a Japanese national university and charges every undergraduate the same standard rate — there is no separate international tuition — so this is recorded as institution-wide and all-students. The cited page states no academic year, only "(As of April 1, 2020)", so that exact string is kept as the periodLabel rather than inferring a year. The rate is corroborated by the October 2027 International Undergraduate Program application instructions, which bill it as 267,900 JPY per semester (Fall 2027 + Spring 2028 = 535,800 JPY). On top of tuition there is a one-time enrolment fee of 282,000 JPY and an application fee of 10,000 JPY for applicants holding foreign nationality only. IUP students who apply and reside outside Japan get half of the first year's tuition waived (see scholarships).

Show the fee on the university's site
Intake
October 2027
Source
Taught in
English. All classes except the Japanese language classes are taught in English; Japanese language study is a required first-year course but is not the medium of instruction.
Source
Application deadline
Online application 7–11 December 2026 (5 p.m. Japan time); application documents must be received by 5 p.m. on 17 December 2026, for October 2027 entry.
Source

What you'll study

Not yet added.

Scholarships3 available
  • Exemption of Half Tuition (International Undergraduate Program)

    Half of the first year's tuition (two semesters) waived — 267,900 JPY per semester reduced to 133,950 JPY. Second year onwards is charged at the full rate.

    Eligibility: Hold foreign nationality only, have acquired the qualification to apply to Kyushu University outside Japan, reside outside Japan at the time of application, and enter Japan on a new student visa to study at Kyushu University.

    The source says "half" rather than a numeric percentage, so no coveragePercentage is recorded. Awarded on the stated conditions rather than on grades.

    Source
  • Kyushu University International Undergraduate Scholarship

    A monthly allowance of 60,000 JPY.

    Eligibility: Up to ten successful applicants for the October admission (MEXT Scholarship recipients excluded) who hold foreign nationality only, acquired their application qualification outside Japan, reside outside Japan when they apply, and enter Japan on a new student visa. From the second year a maximum of ten students with a GPA of 3.0 or higher in the previous year are selected.

    The source states a GPA bar of 3.0 but never names the scale it is on, so minimumGPA/gpaScale are deliberately left unset rather than guessed. Applied for by filling in the scholarship section of the application form.

    Source
  • Japanese Government (MEXT) Scholarship — university recommendation

    Four years at 117,000 JPY per month, exemption of the enrolment fee and the tuition fee for four years, and return airline tickets to Japan.

    Eligibility: Successful applicants with outstanding screening results are eligible to apply; Kyushu University selects several of them and recommends them to MEXT individually.

    Conditional on the university's new proposal being approved by the Japanese Government, per the same page. This is the university-recommendation route into MEXT, distinct from the embassy-recommendation route recorded under national scholarships.

    Source
Entry requirementsEnglish · tests · grades · interview

English language

  • TOEFL iBT, 4 overallPublished as "4.0" on the revised TOEFL iBT band scale. The same instructions add that a score reported on the previous 120-point scale must be at least 80. Score reports dated before January 2025 are not accepted.
  • IELTS, 6.5 overallAcademic module. One Skill Retake is not accepted.
Source

Admissions tests

  • EJU optionalExamination for Japanese University Admission for International Students. Accepted, but only as one option among six. Kyushu University does not require the EJU or the Japanese Common Test for this programme: a candidate may satisfy the standardized-test requirement with SAT/Digital SAT, ACT, GCE A level / IAL, AP or IB instead. Submitting one of the listed tests is compulsory, but which one is the applicant's choice. The programme-specific subject and minimum-score table is reproduced in the quote and is garbled in places by the PDF's column layout — read the linked instructions for the authoritative row.
  • SAT optionalSAT Reasoning Test / Digital SAT. One of six accepted standardized tests; the Old SAT (before March 2016) is not accepted.
  • ACT optionalWith or without writing. One of six accepted standardized tests.
  • GCE A level / IAL optionalGeneral Certificate of Education Advanced Level or International A Level. One of six accepted standardized tests — the usual route for an applicant schooled on a British curriculum, and it removes any need to sit a Japanese entrance examination.
  • AP optionalAdvanced Placement. One of six accepted standardized tests.
  • IB optionalInternational Baccalaureate. One of six accepted standardized tests.
Source

Academic offer

Non-Japanese nationality, plus 12 years of schooling completed (or expected by 30 September 2027) outside Japan — or an accepted equivalent such as the International Baccalaureate Diploma, German Abitur, French Baccalaureate, European Baccalaureate, GCE Advanced Level or International Advanced Level. A standardized test score is compulsory on top of this; no application is accepted without one.
Source
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Interview

Yes, for shortlisted applicants. Screening is in two stages: a documents-only preliminary screening, then a secondary screening consisting of a further document evaluation and an online (Zoom) interview with academic questions about the chosen programme. Tentative interview window for October 2027 entry: 24 February – 4 March 2027.
Source

Bachelor · 4 years · Chemistry

International tuition

JP¥535,800 per year

~JP¥2,143,200 for the whole 4 years, at today's fee
Verified

As of April 1, 2020 · Same rate across the institution · All students — no separate international rate

Kyushu University is a Japanese national university and charges every undergraduate the same standard rate — there is no separate international tuition — so this is recorded as institution-wide and all-students. The cited page states no academic year, only "(As of April 1, 2020)", so that exact string is kept as the periodLabel rather than inferring a year. The rate is corroborated by the October 2027 International Undergraduate Program application instructions, which bill it as 267,900 JPY per semester (Fall 2027 + Spring 2028 = 535,800 JPY). On top of tuition there is a one-time enrolment fee of 282,000 JPY and an application fee of 10,000 JPY for applicants holding foreign nationality only. IUP students who apply and reside outside Japan get half of the first year's tuition waived (see scholarships).

Show the fee on the university's site
Intake
October 2027
Source
Taught in
English. All classes except the Japanese language classes are taught in English; Japanese language study is a required first-year course but is not the medium of instruction.
Source
Application deadline
Online application 7–11 December 2026 (5 p.m. Japan time); application documents must be received by 5 p.m. on 17 December 2026, for October 2027 entry.
Source

What you'll study

Not yet added.

Scholarships3 available
  • Exemption of Half Tuition (International Undergraduate Program)

    Half of the first year's tuition (two semesters) waived — 267,900 JPY per semester reduced to 133,950 JPY. Second year onwards is charged at the full rate.

    Eligibility: Hold foreign nationality only, have acquired the qualification to apply to Kyushu University outside Japan, reside outside Japan at the time of application, and enter Japan on a new student visa to study at Kyushu University.

    The source says "half" rather than a numeric percentage, so no coveragePercentage is recorded. Awarded on the stated conditions rather than on grades.

    Source
  • Kyushu University International Undergraduate Scholarship

    A monthly allowance of 60,000 JPY.

    Eligibility: Up to ten successful applicants for the October admission (MEXT Scholarship recipients excluded) who hold foreign nationality only, acquired their application qualification outside Japan, reside outside Japan when they apply, and enter Japan on a new student visa. From the second year a maximum of ten students with a GPA of 3.0 or higher in the previous year are selected.

    The source states a GPA bar of 3.0 but never names the scale it is on, so minimumGPA/gpaScale are deliberately left unset rather than guessed. Applied for by filling in the scholarship section of the application form.

    Source
  • Japanese Government (MEXT) Scholarship — university recommendation

    Four years at 117,000 JPY per month, exemption of the enrolment fee and the tuition fee for four years, and return airline tickets to Japan.

    Eligibility: Successful applicants with outstanding screening results are eligible to apply; Kyushu University selects several of them and recommends them to MEXT individually.

    Conditional on the university's new proposal being approved by the Japanese Government, per the same page. This is the university-recommendation route into MEXT, distinct from the embassy-recommendation route recorded under national scholarships.

    Source
Entry requirementsEnglish · tests · grades · interview

English language

  • TOEFL iBT, 4 overallPublished as "4.0" on the revised TOEFL iBT band scale. The same instructions add that a score reported on the previous 120-point scale must be at least 80. Score reports dated before January 2025 are not accepted.
  • IELTS, 6.5 overallAcademic module. One Skill Retake is not accepted.
Source

Admissions tests

  • EJU optionalExamination for Japanese University Admission for International Students. Accepted, but only as one option among six. Kyushu University does not require the EJU or the Japanese Common Test for this programme: a candidate may satisfy the standardized-test requirement with SAT/Digital SAT, ACT, GCE A level / IAL, AP or IB instead. Submitting one of the listed tests is compulsory, but which one is the applicant's choice. The programme-specific subject and minimum-score table is reproduced in the quote and is garbled in places by the PDF's column layout — read the linked instructions for the authoritative row.
  • SAT optionalSAT Reasoning Test / Digital SAT. One of six accepted standardized tests; the Old SAT (before March 2016) is not accepted.
  • ACT optionalWith or without writing. One of six accepted standardized tests.
  • GCE A level / IAL optionalGeneral Certificate of Education Advanced Level or International A Level. One of six accepted standardized tests — the usual route for an applicant schooled on a British curriculum, and it removes any need to sit a Japanese entrance examination.
  • AP optionalAdvanced Placement. One of six accepted standardized tests.
  • IB optionalInternational Baccalaureate. One of six accepted standardized tests.
Source

Academic offer

Non-Japanese nationality, plus 12 years of schooling completed (or expected by 30 September 2027) outside Japan — or an accepted equivalent such as the International Baccalaureate Diploma, German Abitur, French Baccalaureate, European Baccalaureate, GCE Advanced Level or International Advanced Level. A standardized test score is compulsory on top of this; no application is accepted without one.
Source
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Interview

Yes, for shortlisted applicants. Screening is in two stages: a documents-only preliminary screening, then a secondary screening consisting of a further document evaluation and an online (Zoom) interview with academic questions about the chosen programme. Tentative interview window for October 2027 entry: 24 February – 4 March 2027.
Source

Bachelor · 4 years · Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering

International tuition

JP¥535,800 per year

~JP¥2,143,200 for the whole 4 years, at today's fee
Verified

As of April 1, 2020 · Same rate across the institution · All students — no separate international rate

Kyushu University is a Japanese national university and charges every undergraduate the same standard rate — there is no separate international tuition — so this is recorded as institution-wide and all-students. The cited page states no academic year, only "(As of April 1, 2020)", so that exact string is kept as the periodLabel rather than inferring a year. The rate is corroborated by the October 2027 International Undergraduate Program application instructions, which bill it as 267,900 JPY per semester (Fall 2027 + Spring 2028 = 535,800 JPY). On top of tuition there is a one-time enrolment fee of 282,000 JPY and an application fee of 10,000 JPY for applicants holding foreign nationality only. IUP students who apply and reside outside Japan get half of the first year's tuition waived (see scholarships).

Show the fee on the university's site
Intake
October 2027
Source
Taught in
English. All classes except the Japanese language classes are taught in English; Japanese language study is a required first-year course but is not the medium of instruction.
Source
Application deadline
Online application 7–11 December 2026 (5 p.m. Japan time); application documents must be received by 5 p.m. on 17 December 2026, for October 2027 entry.
Source

What you'll study

Not yet added.

Scholarships3 available
  • Exemption of Half Tuition (International Undergraduate Program)

    Half of the first year's tuition (two semesters) waived — 267,900 JPY per semester reduced to 133,950 JPY. Second year onwards is charged at the full rate.

    Eligibility: Hold foreign nationality only, have acquired the qualification to apply to Kyushu University outside Japan, reside outside Japan at the time of application, and enter Japan on a new student visa to study at Kyushu University.

    The source says "half" rather than a numeric percentage, so no coveragePercentage is recorded. Awarded on the stated conditions rather than on grades.

    Source
  • Kyushu University International Undergraduate Scholarship

    A monthly allowance of 60,000 JPY.

    Eligibility: Up to ten successful applicants for the October admission (MEXT Scholarship recipients excluded) who hold foreign nationality only, acquired their application qualification outside Japan, reside outside Japan when they apply, and enter Japan on a new student visa. From the second year a maximum of ten students with a GPA of 3.0 or higher in the previous year are selected.

    The source states a GPA bar of 3.0 but never names the scale it is on, so minimumGPA/gpaScale are deliberately left unset rather than guessed. Applied for by filling in the scholarship section of the application form.

    Source
  • Japanese Government (MEXT) Scholarship — university recommendation

    Four years at 117,000 JPY per month, exemption of the enrolment fee and the tuition fee for four years, and return airline tickets to Japan.

    Eligibility: Successful applicants with outstanding screening results are eligible to apply; Kyushu University selects several of them and recommends them to MEXT individually.

    Conditional on the university's new proposal being approved by the Japanese Government, per the same page. This is the university-recommendation route into MEXT, distinct from the embassy-recommendation route recorded under national scholarships.

    Source
Entry requirementsEnglish · tests · grades · interview

English language

  • TOEFL iBT, 4 overallPublished as "4.0" on the revised TOEFL iBT band scale. The same instructions add that a score reported on the previous 120-point scale must be at least 80. Score reports dated before January 2025 are not accepted.
  • IELTS, 6.5 overallAcademic module. One Skill Retake is not accepted.
Source

Admissions tests

  • EJU optionalExamination for Japanese University Admission for International Students. Accepted, but only as one option among six. Kyushu University does not require the EJU or the Japanese Common Test for this programme: a candidate may satisfy the standardized-test requirement with SAT/Digital SAT, ACT, GCE A level / IAL, AP or IB instead. Submitting one of the listed tests is compulsory, but which one is the applicant's choice. The programme-specific subject and minimum-score table is reproduced in the quote and is garbled in places by the PDF's column layout — read the linked instructions for the authoritative row.
  • SAT optionalSAT Reasoning Test / Digital SAT. One of six accepted standardized tests; the Old SAT (before March 2016) is not accepted.
  • ACT optionalWith or without writing. One of six accepted standardized tests.
  • GCE A level / IAL optionalGeneral Certificate of Education Advanced Level or International A Level. One of six accepted standardized tests — the usual route for an applicant schooled on a British curriculum, and it removes any need to sit a Japanese entrance examination.
  • AP optionalAdvanced Placement. One of six accepted standardized tests.
  • IB optionalInternational Baccalaureate. One of six accepted standardized tests.
Source

Academic offer

Non-Japanese nationality, plus 12 years of schooling completed (or expected by 30 September 2027) outside Japan — or an accepted equivalent such as the International Baccalaureate Diploma, German Abitur, French Baccalaureate, European Baccalaureate, GCE Advanced Level or International Advanced Level. A standardized test score is compulsory on top of this; no application is accepted without one.
Source
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Interview

Yes, for shortlisted applicants. Screening is in two stages: a documents-only preliminary screening, then a secondary screening consisting of a further document evaluation and an online (Zoom) interview with academic questions about the chosen programme. Tentative interview window for October 2027 entry: 24 February – 4 March 2027.
Source

Bachelor · 4 years · Civil Engineering, Earth & Environmental

International tuition

JP¥535,800 per year

~JP¥2,143,200 for the whole 4 years, at today's fee
Verified

As of April 1, 2020 · Same rate across the institution · All students — no separate international rate

Kyushu University is a Japanese national university and charges every undergraduate the same standard rate — there is no separate international tuition — so this is recorded as institution-wide and all-students. The cited page states no academic year, only "(As of April 1, 2020)", so that exact string is kept as the periodLabel rather than inferring a year. The rate is corroborated by the October 2027 International Undergraduate Program application instructions, which bill it as 267,900 JPY per semester (Fall 2027 + Spring 2028 = 535,800 JPY). On top of tuition there is a one-time enrolment fee of 282,000 JPY and an application fee of 10,000 JPY for applicants holding foreign nationality only. IUP students who apply and reside outside Japan get half of the first year's tuition waived (see scholarships).

Show the fee on the university's site
Intake
October 2027
Source
Taught in
English. All classes except the Japanese language classes are taught in English; Japanese language study is a required first-year course but is not the medium of instruction.
Source
Application deadline
Online application 7–11 December 2026 (5 p.m. Japan time); application documents must be received by 5 p.m. on 17 December 2026, for October 2027 entry.
Source

What you'll study

Not yet added.

Scholarships3 available
  • Exemption of Half Tuition (International Undergraduate Program)

    Half of the first year's tuition (two semesters) waived — 267,900 JPY per semester reduced to 133,950 JPY. Second year onwards is charged at the full rate.

    Eligibility: Hold foreign nationality only, have acquired the qualification to apply to Kyushu University outside Japan, reside outside Japan at the time of application, and enter Japan on a new student visa to study at Kyushu University.

    The source says "half" rather than a numeric percentage, so no coveragePercentage is recorded. Awarded on the stated conditions rather than on grades.

    Source
  • Kyushu University International Undergraduate Scholarship

    A monthly allowance of 60,000 JPY.

    Eligibility: Up to ten successful applicants for the October admission (MEXT Scholarship recipients excluded) who hold foreign nationality only, acquired their application qualification outside Japan, reside outside Japan when they apply, and enter Japan on a new student visa. From the second year a maximum of ten students with a GPA of 3.0 or higher in the previous year are selected.

    The source states a GPA bar of 3.0 but never names the scale it is on, so minimumGPA/gpaScale are deliberately left unset rather than guessed. Applied for by filling in the scholarship section of the application form.

    Source
  • Japanese Government (MEXT) Scholarship — university recommendation

    Four years at 117,000 JPY per month, exemption of the enrolment fee and the tuition fee for four years, and return airline tickets to Japan.

    Eligibility: Successful applicants with outstanding screening results are eligible to apply; Kyushu University selects several of them and recommends them to MEXT individually.

    Conditional on the university's new proposal being approved by the Japanese Government, per the same page. This is the university-recommendation route into MEXT, distinct from the embassy-recommendation route recorded under national scholarships.

    Source
Entry requirementsEnglish · tests · grades · interview

English language

  • TOEFL iBT, 4 overallPublished as "4.0" on the revised TOEFL iBT band scale. The same instructions add that a score reported on the previous 120-point scale must be at least 80. Score reports dated before January 2025 are not accepted.
  • IELTS, 6.5 overallAcademic module. One Skill Retake is not accepted.
Source

Admissions tests

  • EJU optionalExamination for Japanese University Admission for International Students. Accepted, but only as one option among six. Kyushu University does not require the EJU or the Japanese Common Test for this programme: a candidate may satisfy the standardized-test requirement with SAT/Digital SAT, ACT, GCE A level / IAL, AP or IB instead. Submitting one of the listed tests is compulsory, but which one is the applicant's choice. The programme-specific subject and minimum-score table is reproduced in the quote and is garbled in places by the PDF's column layout — read the linked instructions for the authoritative row.
  • SAT optionalSAT Reasoning Test / Digital SAT. One of six accepted standardized tests; the Old SAT (before March 2016) is not accepted.
  • ACT optionalWith or without writing. One of six accepted standardized tests.
  • GCE A level / IAL optionalGeneral Certificate of Education Advanced Level or International A Level. One of six accepted standardized tests — the usual route for an applicant schooled on a British curriculum, and it removes any need to sit a Japanese entrance examination.
  • AP optionalAdvanced Placement. One of six accepted standardized tests.
  • IB optionalInternational Baccalaureate. One of six accepted standardized tests.
Source

Academic offer

Non-Japanese nationality, plus 12 years of schooling completed (or expected by 30 September 2027) outside Japan — or an accepted equivalent such as the International Baccalaureate Diploma, German Abitur, French Baccalaureate, European Baccalaureate, GCE Advanced Level or International Advanced Level. A standardized test score is compulsory on top of this; no application is accepted without one.
Source
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Interview

Yes, for shortlisted applicants. Screening is in two stages: a documents-only preliminary screening, then a secondary screening consisting of a further document evaluation and an online (Zoom) interview with academic questions about the chosen programme. Tentative interview window for October 2027 entry: 24 February – 4 March 2027.
Source

Bachelor · 4 years · Biology & Life Sciences, Biotechnology, Earth & Environmental

International tuition

JP¥535,800 per year

~JP¥2,143,200 for the whole 4 years, at today's fee
Verified

As of April 1, 2020 · Same rate across the institution · All students — no separate international rate

Kyushu University is a Japanese national university and charges every undergraduate the same standard rate — there is no separate international tuition — so this is recorded as institution-wide and all-students. The cited page states no academic year, only "(As of April 1, 2020)", so that exact string is kept as the periodLabel rather than inferring a year. The rate is corroborated by the October 2027 International Undergraduate Program application instructions, which bill it as 267,900 JPY per semester (Fall 2027 + Spring 2028 = 535,800 JPY). On top of tuition there is a one-time enrolment fee of 282,000 JPY and an application fee of 10,000 JPY for applicants holding foreign nationality only. IUP students who apply and reside outside Japan get half of the first year's tuition waived (see scholarships).

Show the fee on the university's site
Intake
October 2027
Source
Taught in
English. All classes except the Japanese language classes are taught in English.
Source
Application deadline
Application period 7–17 December 2026 (documents due by 5 p.m. Japan time on 17 December 2026), for October 2027 entry.
Source

What you'll study

Not yet added.

Scholarships3 available
  • Exemption of Half Tuition (International Undergraduate Program)

    Half of the first year's tuition (two semesters) waived — 267,900 JPY per semester reduced to 133,950 JPY. Second year onwards is charged at the full rate.

    Eligibility: Hold foreign nationality only, have acquired the qualification to apply to Kyushu University outside Japan, reside outside Japan at the time of application, and enter Japan on a new student visa to study at Kyushu University.

    The source says "half" rather than a numeric percentage, so no coveragePercentage is recorded. Awarded on the stated conditions rather than on grades.

    Source
  • Kyushu University International Undergraduate Scholarship

    A monthly allowance of 60,000 JPY.

    Eligibility: Up to ten successful applicants for the October admission (MEXT Scholarship recipients excluded) who hold foreign nationality only, acquired their application qualification outside Japan, reside outside Japan when they apply, and enter Japan on a new student visa. From the second year a maximum of ten students with a GPA of 3.0 or higher in the previous year are selected.

    The source states a GPA bar of 3.0 but never names the scale it is on, so minimumGPA/gpaScale are deliberately left unset rather than guessed. Applied for by filling in the scholarship section of the application form.

    Source
  • Japanese Government (MEXT) Scholarship — university recommendation

    Four years at 117,000 JPY per month, exemption of the enrolment fee and the tuition fee for four years, and return airline tickets to Japan.

    Eligibility: Successful applicants with outstanding screening results are eligible to apply; Kyushu University selects several of them and recommends them to MEXT individually.

    Conditional on the university's new proposal being approved by the Japanese Government, per the same page. This is the university-recommendation route into MEXT, distinct from the embassy-recommendation route recorded under national scholarships.

    Source
Entry requirementstests · grades · interview

Admissions tests

  • EJU optionalUnder Type B admission (applicants who graduated from a high school outside Japan) the EJU is only one of the accepted standardized tests: GCE A/AS Level or International A Level, the IB Diploma, ACT and AP are listed as alternatives in section 4.5.1, along with country-specific tests such as GAOKAO, HKDSE, CSAT, UEC and STPM in 4.5.2. Submitting one of them is compulsory; which one is the applicant's choice. Type A admission — a separate route not recorded here — is for students who sit the Japanese University Entrance Examinations.
Source

Academic offer

Type B route: applicants who have graduated (or will graduate) from a high school outside Japan, or from an international/foreign school in Japan, or who obtained the IB at a high school in Japan. Roughly 10 places in total across Types A and B. Type A is the separate route for students taking the Japanese University Entrance Examinations.
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Interview

Yes, for shortlisted applicants. A first screening on documents is followed by a second screening combining a document evaluation with an online interview; estimated interview window for October 2027 entry is 19 February – 12 March 2027.
Source

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Student body

QS's own figures · QS World University Rankings 2027

Students
18,813
International students
2,929
≈16% of the student body (worked out here)
Faculty
2,870
International faculty
13%

These come from QS, not the university's own pages. Unlike every fee and deadline on this site. QS is the primary source for its own rankings and measurements, which is why it is cited here and rejected everywhere else.

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About & contact

Fukuoka, Japan· view on Google Maps ↗kyushu-u.ac.jp

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Accommodation

JP¥18,500per month

on-campus dormitory rent (Dormitory 1, excludes utility/common service fees)

Published by the university itself, not a live listings price. Actual cost depends on room type, availability and when you apply.

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After you graduate

Rules read 19 Aug 2026

What Japan's own immigration authority currently publishes. Not a ranking, not a guarantee, and not the same as what any agent or forum will tell you. Whether someone actually obtains residence depends on occupation, points, funds and policy that can change between application and graduation.

Work during study

A 'Student' (留学) status-of-residence holder has no work rights by default and must separately obtain 'Permission to Engage in Activities Other Than Those Permitted under the Status of Residence Previously Granted' (資格外活動許可) from the Immigration Services Agency before taking any paid work. The general permit (包括許可) that covers ordinary part-time work caps income-generating activity at 28 hours per week, rising to 8 hours per day (i.e. up to 40 hours in a normal week) during the educational institution's long vacation periods. Work in an establishment affecting public morals (e.g. adult entertainment or nightlife venues) is barred outright regardless of hours. A student intending to work must apply in person (or through an approved intermediary such as their school) at the regional immigration bureau, presenting their residence card; there is no fee.

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Post-study work visa

未来創造人材制度 (J-Find) — Designated Activities status for graduates of top-ranked universities . Up to 2 years
Introduced April 2023, J-Find grants a 'Designated Activities' status to someone who meets all three published conditions: (1) they graduated from — or completed a graduate-level degree or professional degree at — a university placed in the top 100 by at least two of three named world university rankings (QS World University Rankings, THE World University Rankings, or the Shanghai Ranking's Academic Ranking of World Universities); (2) they are within 5 years of that graduation; and (3) they hold at least JPY 200,000 to cover their initial cost of living in Japan. The status permits job-hunting, business-start-up preparation, and paid work needed to fund those activities (not open-ended employment), for up to 2 years total, renewed every 6 or 12 months. A dependent spouse or child can accompany the holder on their own Designated Activities status, though a dependant's own work still requires the separate 資格外活動許可 permission described under workDuringStudy. Japan does not otherwise publish a general post-study job-search visa open to every graduate — J-Find and the narrower 'Designated Activities (Continuing Job Hunting)' status (available to a graduate of any Japanese university or vocational school, not gated on world rankings, but requiring the school's own recommendation and continued job-hunting activity) are the two published routes; the broader one gated on ranking and no school recommendation is J-Find, cited here.

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Route to permanent residence

The realistic route from studying in Japan to permanent residence runs through the Highly Skilled Professional (高度専門職) points system, in place since 2012. A points calculation covering academic background, professional career, annual salary, age, research achievements, and other factors that reaches 70 gives 'Highly Skilled Professional (i)' status, which itself already carries a uniform maximum 5-year period of stay and other privileges (multi-track activities, a spouse able to work without meeting the usual credential requirements, and conditional accompaniment of parents or a household employee). The Immigration Services Agency's own published preferential-treatment page states the key relaxation directly: ordinary permanent residence in Japan requires, in principle, 10 or more consecutive years of residence, but someone who has continuously carried out Highly Skilled Professional activity for 3 years becomes eligible for permanent residence — and someone recognised as especially highly skilled within that group (80 or more points) becomes eligible after just 1 continuous year. A recent graduate does not qualify for Highly Skilled Professional status purely by holding a degree; the points are earned through the job itself (salary, career history, research record) once employed, so a graduate typically needs to first secure qualifying work — commonly via the ordinary 'Engineer/Specialist in Humanities/International Services' work status — before points and the shortened PR clock can apply.

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Route to citizenship

Japanese nationality by naturalisation is granted at the discretion of the Minister of Justice under Article 4 of the Nationality Act, and its general conditions (Article 5) are published in English by the Ministry of Justice itself. An applicant must have been domiciled in Japan for 5 or more consecutive years while holding valid status of residence throughout; be at least 18 (lowered from 20 by an amendment effective 1 April 2022) and of full legal capacity under their home country's law; be of upright conduct (judged against criminal record, tax-payment status and general social conduct); and be able to secure a livelihood in Japan (a household test — an applicant with no income of their own can still meet it through a spouse's or relative's property or earning capacity). The decisive condition for a reader weighing this route is the 'prevention of multiple nationality' condition (Article 5, Paragraph 1, Item 5): an applicant must either already have no nationality, or must, in principle, lose their original nationality upon naturalising as Japanese — Japan does not recognise dual nationality as a general matter. The Ministry's own page carves out a narrow exception only for a person whose original country's law does not allow them to lose that nationality regardless of their own wishes, in which case naturalisation may still be permitted without meeting this condition. Some of these general conditions are relaxed for applicants with an existing special relationship to Japan (born in Japan, or with a Japanese spouse, child, or former Japanese national in their history) under separate provisions (Nationality Act Articles 6-8) — a status an international graduate would not typically hold.

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New entry added 19 August 2026. Two Japanese government domains already covered this dataset's existing IMMIGRATION_DOMAINS entry for Japan (isa.go.jp, mofa.go.jp); moj.go.jp (Ministry of Justice, the Immigration Services Agency's own parent ministry and the domain the Agency's own site now actually resolves to — see collection note below) is added alongside them. Collection note: the isa.go.jp URLs found by search consistently redirected to the Japanese-language moj.go.jp/isa/ homepage rather than the specific page — the Immigration Services Agency's site now lives at moj.go.jp/isa/ with isa.go.jp apparently retired or aliased; every citation in this entry was re-found and fetched at its working moj.go.jp/isa/ URL instead (confirmed correct via the project's browser fallback before switching back to the plain-HTTP fetcher, which worked once the right path was known). Three of the four citations here (workDuringStudy, postStudyWork, residencyRoute) are Japanese-language originals with no equivalent English-language page found stating the same figures directly — the same pattern already used elsewhere in this dataset for South Korea, Turkey, Italy, France and (this pass) China; the English in `value` is this project's own translation/paraphrase, not a literal quote. The J-Find citation (postStudyWork) was a binary PDF; it was downloaded and converted with pdftotext (poppler-utils, -enc UTF-8 -layout) and archived via fetch-source.mjs --save, the same pattern already documented in this dataset for Australian, Italian, Korean and Turkish government PDFs — the quote's own line breaks reflect the original two-column PDF layout interleaving the eligibility list with the activity/duration column next to it, preserved verbatim rather than reflowed. citizenshipRoute, by contrast, is cited to moj.go.jp's own clean English-language 'Nationality Q&A' page, needing no translation. inDemandOccupations is left null: the Highly Skilled Professional points system scores salary, education, career history, age and similar general factors rather than naming specific in-demand occupations the way Canada, Australia, the UK or Germany do, and this dataset found no separate published shortage-occupation list. naturalisationStatus set to 'published-route': the Ministry of Justice publishes real, followable general conditions (Article 5) even though naturalisation is stated as being at the Minister's discretion beyond meeting them ('even if these conditions are met, naturalization may not always be permitted' — the Ministry's own words) — per the doc comment on ResidencyPathway.naturalisationStatus, this field records only whether criteria are published, not a guarantee of the outcome. citizenshipTerms records route discretionary because naturalisation is granted at the Minister of Justice’s discretion under Nationality Act Article 4, on top of the Article 5 conditions; the conditions are published, the grant is the Minister’s. dualCitizenshipAllowed is false: the Article 5(1)(v) prevention-of-multiple-nationality condition requires an applicant to have no nationality or, in principle, to lose their existing one on naturalising.

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