Science Tokyo (formerly Tokyo Tech): Admission Guide for International Applicants, 2027 Entry

Institute of Science Tokyo (Science Tokyo) was formed on October 1, 2024, when Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) merged with Tokyo Medical and Dental University, and it is made up of two admission systems: science and engineering, and medicine and dentistry. GSEP lists annual tuition of 635,400 yen.

Science Tokyo's own pages use the name "Institute of Science Tokyo (Science Tokyo)", and its Japanese guidelines give the name as 東京科学大学. The institution states that Tokyo Institute of Technology merged with Tokyo Medical and Dental University to form it.

Administration Building 1 on Ookayama Campus, Tokyo Institute of Technology

Science Tokyo's Japanese guidelines state that it consists of a medicine and dentistry system (医歯学系, the former Tokyo Medical and Dental University) and a science and engineering system (理工学系, the former Tokyo Tech). The two systems have their own guidelines and their own dates, so a rule that holds in one does not carry over to the other.

Outside GSEP, Science Tokyo states that those who wish to enroll in its Japanese-taught science and engineering bachelor programmes must acquire sufficient competence in Japanese prior to admission. GSEP is the English-taught exception and is listed under Transdisciplinary Science and Engineering (融合理工学系), in the science and engineering system. The chapters on GSEP, the privately financed route and the medicine and dentistry route keep each route's dates and rules apart.

Institute of Science Tokyo (Science Tokyo) is a national university that was established on October 1, 2024, when Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) merged with Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU). For you as an applicant, the practical result is one institution with two admission systems: science and engineering, which is the former Tokyo Tech, and medicine and dentistry, which is the former TMDU.

Science Tokyo describes itself as a national university and states its mission as "Advancing science and human wellbeing to create value for and with society." Its Japanese guidelines state that it consists of a science and engineering system (旧・東京工業大学) and a medicine and dentistry system (旧・東京医科歯科大学). Each system publishes its own rules, which is why the later chapters keep them apart.

What happens to the Tokyo Tech name and website

The former Tokyo Tech website at titech.ac.jp carries the banner "Science Tokyo formerly Tokyo Tech". It states that over time its content will be migrated to the Science Tokyo Web, and that any information published on it is valid in relation to Science Tokyo. When you apply, you apply to Science Tokyo. Older guides, forum posts and school-counselor advice that talk about Tokyo Tech describe the science and engineering side of the same institution.

Six campuses after the merger

Science Tokyo introduces six campuses: Ookayama in Meguro, Tokyo; Yokohama in Yokohama, Kanagawa; Tamachi in Minato, Tokyo; Yushima in Bunkyo, Tokyo, and Surugadai in Chiyoda, Tokyo, which share one entry; and Konodai in Ichikawa, Chiba. The headcounts in the chart above cover all of them together.

Science Tokyo also states that its International Support Center was newly established alongside the institute in October 2024.

Origins of the two universities and rankings

Science Tokyo's English overview and admissions pages do not give founding years or early history for Tokyo Tech or TMDU, and they state no QS or THE position.

If you do not hold Japanese nationality and finished school abroad, Science Tokyo offers a privately financed international student special selection in science and engineering and in medicine and dentistry, plus the English-taught GSEP in science and engineering. Applicants to the Japanese-taught science and engineering programmes must acquire sufficient competence in Japanese before admission, and the two systems publish separate rules.

Science Tokyo's entrance examination page lists the selections of the science and engineering system separately. Science and engineering (the former Tokyo Tech) lists general selection (first stage), comprehensive selection, school-recommendation selection, the privately financed international student special selection (理工学系), the priority placement selection for MEXT-funded students (国費外国人留学生優先配置選抜, which is GSEP), transfer admission and re-admission. The medicine and dentistry system (the former Tokyo Medical and Dental University) has its own privately financed international student special selection (医歯学系) and a special selection I for IB (国際バカロレア選抜) holders.

Keep the cycles apart. The privately financed selections described in the next chapters are for the 2027 cycle, and GSEP has its own timeline: the April 2027 intake is closed, and Science Tokyo has posted a notice that applies to the GSEP selection to be conducted in AY 2027 and onward. The GSEP chapter sets out that split.

Which route is taught in English, and which in Japanese

Science Tokyo states that those who wish to enroll in its Japanese-taught science and engineering bachelor programmes must acquire sufficient competence in Japanese before admission. GSEP is described as taught in English and admitted in English. For the medicine and dentistry system, the route pages are written in Japanese and require the EJU, which the later chapter on that system covers.

Pre-arrival special recommendation

Science Tokyo also describes a Pre-arrival Special Recommendation system, which lets non-Japanese students living overseas be admitted without taking the entrance examination in Japan, on the condition that they receive a recommendation from a department that uses the system.

Path 2: Master's and PhD entry

Science Tokyo's undergraduate admissions pages do not describe master's or doctoral entry, so do not carry graduate language scores or supervisor-contact steps over to the bachelor routes above. The bachelor route pages state no JLPT N1 requirement.

The Global Scientists and Engineers Program (GSEP) is Science Tokyo's English-taught Bachelor of Engineering, run in Transdisciplinary Science and Engineering (融合理工学系), with April entry and 18 places for April 2027: 8 for MEXT scholarship recipients and 10 for privately funded international students. The application window for April 2027 closed on August 21, 2026. Science Tokyo has also posted a notice that applies to the GSEP selection to be conducted in AY 2027 and onward, so do not mix it with the April 2027 rules below.

Science Tokyo states that in GSEP "all subjects are taught in English, allowing qualified international students who have little or no proficiency in the Japanese language" to earn an engineering bachelor's degree. Science Tokyo calls it the first international Bachelor of Engineering degree program at Science Tokyo.

GSEP for April 2027: the dated schedule

How GSEP selects

Selection for the April 2027 intake starts with a preliminary screening. Applicants who pass it are interviewed by a GSEP professor and take a written exam covering high school mathematics, physics and chemistry. Science Tokyo adds that details are sent after the preliminary screening.

External examination results are an optional reference for the April 2027 intake. Science Tokyo lists the EJU, GCE A Level or International A Level, the International Baccalaureate (IB), the SAT, the ACT and Advanced Placement (AP) as optional reference examinations for the interview in the secondary screening. For A Level, the certificate it lists covers three subjects: Mathematics Further, Physics and Chemistry.

Later GSEP selections: a notice for AY 2027 and onward

Science Tokyo's GSEP page carries a notice that applies to the GSEP selection to be conducted in AY 2027 and onward. Any changed rules or score thresholds are set out in that notice on the GSEP page; the rules in this chapter are those of the April 2027 intake.

Science Tokyo's GSEP page gives the usual application period only as mid to late August, and the dated schedule it publishes is the one for applicants commencing in April 2027. Check the GSEP page for the dated schedule of any later selection before you plan around a date.

What the last published cycle looked like

For the AY2026 selection, which filled April 2026 places, Science Tokyo's published results table for GSEP shows 144 applicants, 64 who passed the first stage, 23 who passed the selection and 16 who completed enrollment procedures. These are counts for one earlier cycle, not a forecast for yours, and Science Tokyo does not publish a percentage selectivity figure for GSEP.

The GSEP page lists an application fee of JPY 17,000, an enrollment fee of JPY 282,000 and annual tuition of JPY 635,400, and notes that enrollment and tuition fees are subject to change. The English tests GSEP asks for are in the language requirements chapter.

Science Tokyo's privately financed international student special selection (私費外国人留学生特別選抜) for science and engineering is the Japanese-taught route for applicants without Japanese nationality who completed 12 years of schooling abroad or hold an accepted equivalent. For the 2027 cycle the application runs December 21 - 23, 2026, the academic test is on January 20, 2027, the interview on February 10, 2027, and results come on March 9, 2027.

This chapter covers the science and engineering system only (理工学系, the former Tokyo Tech). Medicine and dentistry runs its own privately financed selection with different dates, which has a separate chapter. The English-taught GSEP is also a separate route with its own rules.

Who can apply

Science Tokyo states that applicants must meet all three of its conditions: no Japanese nationality; a residence status that does not hinder university entry, together with a qualifying school record; and the EJU result described below. The conditions are specific:

• Nationality: you must not hold Japanese nationality.
• Residence status: a status of residence that does not hinder university entry under immigration law.
• Schooling: 12 years of school education abroad, completed or expected to be completed by March 31, 2027, or a qualification that the Minister of Education designates as equivalent. Overseas facilities that the Minister recognises as equivalent to a Japanese high school course are excluded from that count.
• Test: you must have sat the 2026 EJU, the Examination for Japanese University Admission for International Students run by JASSO, with the scores below.

EJU minimums

For this system and cycle, Science Tokyo sets two minimums on the 2026 EJU: Japanese (writing, reading, and listening) of at least 290 out of 450, and the three science subjects (physics, chemistry and mathematics course 2) of at least 310 out of 400. Only one sitting counts: results from the June or the November session can be used, not a mix of the two. These minimums are a gate to reach the selection, not the level of the applicants who are admitted.

How the selection runs

Science Tokyo requires applicants to take the EJU and sit its Special Screening Examination for privately funded international students. Its schedule lists a first selection (an academic test) on January 20, 2027 and a second selection (an interview) on February 10, 2027. If the number of applicants exceeds three times the places, it may hold a first-stage selection on the EJU Japanese score plus the science total. The university distributes past papers of this selection for the last 3 years.

Path 1: Japanese-language undergraduate, EJU and language tests

This is the Japanese-taught path. The route page states EJU Japanese and science minimums and requires applicants to take the EJU and Science Tokyo's own Special Screening Examination. It states no JLPT N1 minimum, and the page does not list "Japan and the World" among the required EJU subjects. It gives no total EJU target beyond the two minimums above.

The science and engineering privately financed selection runs on the EJU and Science Tokyo's own examination: it needs EJU Japanese of at least 290 out of 450 and the EJU science subjects at least 310 out of 400, then the examination that the schedule splits into an academic test and an interview. GSEP uses a written exam and interview for the April 2027 intake and lists SAT, ACT, IB, A Level and other external exams as optional reference.

Science and engineering, privately financed

Science Tokyo requires the EJU and its own Special Screening Examination for this selection. The EJU minimums are Japanese of at least 290 out of 450 and the three science subjects (physics, chemistry and mathematics course 2) of at least 310 out of 400. The university distributes past papers of this selection for the last 3 years.

Medicine and dentistry, privately financed

The medicine and dentistry system sets a separate rule. Its 2027 guidelines require you to take all the EJU subjects that your faculty and programme designate, in the June or November sessions of 2025 or 2026. The guidelines give a first-stage result on March 5, 2027 and a final result on March 23, 2027. The subject list for each programme is set in the guidelines, so read your own programme's entry there.

GSEP: April 2027 and later selections

For the April 2027 intake, applicants who pass the preliminary screening are interviewed by a GSEP professor and take a written exam covering high school mathematics, physics and chemistry; the secondary screening runs September 28 - October 23, 2026. Science Tokyo lists the EJU, GCE A Level or International A Level, IB, SAT, ACT and AP as optional reference examinations for the interview.

A separate notice on the GSEP page applies to the GSEP selection to be conducted in AY 2027 and onward. Read it before you plan a later GSEP application, and do not apply the April 2027 description above to it.

In the science and engineering privately financed selection, the EJU and Science Tokyo's own Special Screening Examination are both required. The SAT, ACT and IB appear in this guide as optional reference for GSEP, and the IB as the basis of a separate medicine and dentistry selection with its own subject grades, covered in the medicine and dentistry chapter. A published minimum, such as an EJU cut-off, is a gate to enter the selection, not the level of the students who are admitted.

Science Tokyo asks for Japanese on the Japanese-taught routes and for an English test on GSEP, and the medicine and dentistry IB selection asks, in its latest published guidelines (2026 entry), for a TOEFL iBT or IELTS report only from applicants who have not taken English. The science and engineering privately financed selection sets an EJU Japanese minimum of 290 out of 450, while GSEP accepts TOEFL iBT, TOEIC L&R or IELTS Academic with no minimum score. None of the undergraduate routes states a JLPT N1 requirement.

Japanese

Science Tokyo states that applicants who wish to enroll in its Japanese-taught science and engineering bachelor's programmes must acquire sufficient competence in Japanese prior to admission. The measure it names for the privately financed route in science and engineering is the EJU Japanese score, at least 290 out of 450.

English tests for GSEP

GSEP accepts TOEFL iBT (including TOEFL iBT Home Edition), TOEIC L&R, and IELTS Academic in either the paper or the computer-delivered version. Science Tokyo states that there is no minimum score. A score report is valid only if the test was taken within two years before the last day of the application period; for the April 2027 intake, the application guide asks for a test taken on or after August 21, 2024.

For GSEP, Science Tokyo lets nationals of Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States of America apply for an exemption from submitting an English test score, on submission of a document specified by Science Tokyo. English-medium schooling does not exempt you: even if the classes of your high school were in general provided in English, you will not be exempted unless you are a national of one of those countries.

What is not required

No JLPT N1 minimum and no TOEFL or IELTS minimum is stated for the undergraduate routes, and a JLPT score cut-off, a TOEFL iBT threshold or an IELTS threshold quoted elsewhere is not on Science Tokyo's undergraduate pages. If you take a test early, check the validity rule of the route you apply to, because it differs between GSEP and the medical IB selection.

For the 2027 cycle of the science and engineering privately financed selection, Science Tokyo accepts 12 years of school education completed abroad, or expected to be completed by March 31, 2027, and also a 12-year course at a school accredited by WASC, ACSI, CIS, NEASC, Cognia or COBIS. Applicants to GSEP can also present a GCE A Level or International A Level, which the GSEP page lists as a qualification for university entrance recognised by the United Kingdom and other countries.

This chapter describes the qualifications the science and engineering route lists (理工学系). Medicine and dentistry (医歯学系) has its own privately financed selection, covered separately below. The EJU is a test you also need, not a school qualification, so it is not on this list.

School systems shorter than 12 years, and international schools

Science Tokyo states that graduates of education systems where schooling up to high school is shorter than 12 years, and people from international schools, may not be allowed to apply. It tells such applicants to contact the Admissions Office as early as possible before applying. Do this before you pay for any test.

Graduates of Chinese and Vietnamese high schools

For the 2027 cycle, a notice linked from the science and engineering page says that graduates of Chinese or Vietnamese high schools must submit, in addition to the transcript and graduation certificate, an English-language academic verification report. For China this is the report issued by CHSI (China Higher Education Student Information); for Vietnam it is VN-NARIC.

Medicine and dentistry privately financed selection

The medicine and dentistry guidelines for the 2027 cycle accept 12 years of school education completed abroad or expected to be completed by March 31, 2027. Each programme also sets its own EJU subjects, which a later chapter covers.

GSEP: age rule and individual assessment

For the April 2027 intake of GSEP, privately funded applicants had to be at least 18 years old as of March 31, 2027, unless they had completed 12 years of schooling or a high school equivalent that complies with Japanese standards by that date. The GSEP page's conditions for the privately funded track include completing, or being expected to complete, 12 years of primary education outside of Japan by March 2027, and its designation list also names the GCE A Level or International A Level. The page set an Individual Assessment period of July 7, 2026 - August 6, 2026, which has closed. A later GSEP selection would carry its own dates.

Science Tokyo's undergraduate pages state no GPA minimum for these routes.

Each route has its own window: GSEP closed on August 21, 2026, the science and engineering privately financed selection takes applications December 21 - 23, 2026, and the medicine and dentistry privately financed selection takes registrations January 4 - 8, 2027. The examination fee is JPY 17,000 for GSEP and 18,660 yen for the medical and dental selection because that figure includes postage.

GSEP: the steps

For the April 2027 intake, which has closed, GSEP worked in the following order. A later selection may change details, so check its guide when it is published.

• Read the application guide and prepare certificates and other documents.
• Pay the application fee through the secure online payment site (e-shiharai) by choosing "Examination Fee". Science Tokyo states that the application documents must include a Verification of Application Fee Payment and asks you to pay before you proceed with the application form.

Medicine and dentistry: Web application site

For the 2027 cycle of the medical and dental privately financed selection, you register on the "Web application site" from January 4 to January 8, 2027; the site opens on December 21, 2026. The fee of 18,660 yen is made up of an examination fee of 17,000 yen and postage of 1,660 yen. The first-stage result is announced on March 5, 2027 and the final result on March 23, 2027.

Results, enrollment procedures and the start of term

The science and engineering page also announces planned changes to part of the application documents for the 2027 cycle, so use the 2027 guidelines and its list of main changes rather than a previous year's checklist.

Science Tokyo's medicine and dentistry system (医歯学系, the former Tokyo Medical and Dental University) runs its own privately financed international student selection for the 2027 cycle, with registration on January 4 - 8, 2027 and the final result on March 23, 2027, and a separate IB selection whose applications run November 2 - 6, 2026. Everything in this chapter belongs to that system and does not apply to science and engineering.

The medicine and dentistry system has its own guidelines, its own EJU rules and its own dates, and the route pages are in Japanese. No English-taught medical or dental bachelor is listed.

Privately financed international selection

The guidelines for the 2027 cycle require the EJU, in the subjects Science Tokyo designates for your programme, from the June or November sessions of 2025 or 2026. Applicants also need 12 years of school education completed abroad, or expected to be completed by March 31, 2027. Registration runs January 4 - 8, 2027, with the first-stage result on March 5 and the final result on March 23, 2027. The per-programme EJU subject list is in the 2027 guidelines; read your programme's row there.

IB selection (special selection I)

The IB selection (special selection I) is for holders, or expected holders, of the IB full Diploma, with applications from November 2 - 6, 2026.

• School of Medicine, in the latest published guidelines (2026 entry): Japanese A (HL or SL) or Japanese B (HL); Mathematics (HL); and two of physics, chemistry and biology, at least one of them at HL.
• English, only for applicants who have not taken English: a TOEFL iBT or IELTS score report from a test taken within 6 months before the first day of the application period (latest published guidelines, 2026 entry).

The subject list above comes from the latest published edition of the guidelines (2026 entry), so check the 2027 guidelines for any change. The School of Medicine asks for Japanese as an IB subject, so this route suits IB students who study Japanese inside the Diploma.

In the latest published results, the April 2026 intake (AY2026), the science and engineering privately financed selection had 117 applicants, 42 who passed and 26 who completed enrollment, and GSEP had 144 applicants, 23 who passed and 16 who enrolled. Science Tokyo publishes no acceptance rate, so these counts and the place numbers for 2027 are the evidence you have.

Read these as one past cycle. They show how many applicants a Japanese-taught route drew and how many were admitted, not the odds for your profile. Science Tokyo does not publish an acceptance rate.

GSEP in AY2026

How many places for 2027

For the 2027 cycle, the science and engineering privately financed selection lists 10 places in the School of Engineering, five in the School of Materials and Chemical Technology and 25 in the School of Environment and Society, of which 20 are in Transdisciplinary Science and Engineering. The Schools of Science, Computing, and Life Science and Technology list "a small number" without a figure. GSEP lists 18 places for April 2027.

Science Tokyo also ran a pre-arrival special recommendation in AY2026: 2 applicants, 1 admitted and 1 enrolled, all in Transdisciplinary Science and Engineering.

A common misconception: high school results alone are not enough

School grades do not decide the Japanese-taught privately financed routes by themselves. The science and engineering selection requires an EJU result, and the medicine and dentistry privately financed selection requires the EJU subjects your programme designates; both then add Science Tokyo's own examination. GSEP and the medicine and dentistry IB selection use different tests: a written exam and interview, and IB subjects, respectively. If you hold a twelve-year school qualification from abroad, it can meet the school-record condition; it does not replace the route's tests.

A published minimum, such as an EJU cut-off or an IB threshold, is a gate to enter the selection, not the level of the students who are admitted. The results tables Science Tokyo publishes list counts of people, not the scores of admitted applicants, so they cannot tell you a safe score.

Science Tokyo is built from six Schools in science and engineering (the former Tokyo Tech) and two faculties in medicine and dentistry (the former Tokyo Medical and Dental University), so it is no longer a STEM-only institution without medicine. The university's pages do not rank its Schools or departments and state no overall or subject ranking position.

In science and engineering, Science Tokyo states that its Schools encompass both undergraduate and graduate education. Applicants to the Japanese-taught programmes must acquire sufficient competence in Japanese prior to admission.

S3 building (Suzukakedai Library) on Suzukakedai Campus, Tokyo Institute of Technology

Science and engineering: six Schools

Science Tokyo's department list names no ranking positions, laboratories, notable alumni or industry partners. If a particular laboratory or industry link matters to your choice, ask the department directly.

Medicine and dentistry: two faculties

The Faculty of Medicine lists the School of Medicine and the School of Health Care Sciences, which has Nursing Sciences and Medical Technology. The Faculty of Dentistry lists the School of Dentistry, the Course for Oral Health Care Sciences and the Course for Oral Health Engineering. The privately financed international selection for these programmes is covered in its own chapter. Science Tokyo does not list an English-taught undergraduate programme in either faculty.

How first-year students are placed

For the privately financed selection in science and engineering, places are set per School, and applicants may list up to five choices; Science Tokyo's results tables count each applicant under their first choice, and some applicants are admitted to a different choice. The admissions pages do not state when in the bachelor's programme students are assigned to a department, so ask the Admissions Office if that matters for your plan.

Science Tokyo has six campuses. The admissions pages do not list which School sits on which campus, but they do state that all new bachelor students gather at the Ookayama Campus once a week in April and May for a common required course, which the university calls Ookayama Day. The guidelines say its purpose is exchange across Schools and faculties.

Science Tokyo publishes career support for its students but no graduate employment figures, no starting salaries and no alumni list. What it states is that career advisors answer questions in English and Japanese, that its career events are mainly held in Japanese, and that international students may work up to 28 hours per week.

Career support for international students

Science Tokyo's international student guide says that career advisors respond to career-related queries in both English and Japanese, and that each of its four career advisors spends a day on duty every week at the Ookayama Campus and the Yokohama Campus. The same guide states that career-related events of the Student Support Center are mainly held in Japanese. If you enter through GSEP or another route with little Japanese, expect to need Japanese for most of the events.

The prospective-student pages link a career support section with information on employment and career support.

Working while you study

Science Tokyo states that international students are allowed to work up to 28 hours per week, and up to 8 hours per day during extended breaks. Work needs permission for activity outside your status of residence, so check the rule against your own situation.

Alumni and outcomes

Science Tokyo's admissions, programme and student pages do not name notable alumni or Nobel laureates, and they do not publish the share of graduates who find employment or continue to graduate study. They also publish no average or starting salary. If these facts matter to your decision, ask the university's career office or the department you are applying to for its own figures, and treat any figure from another source as unverified.

GSEP lists an annual tuition of 635,400 yen, an enrollment fee of 282,000 yen and an application fee of 17,000 yen, and notes that enrollment and tuition fees are subject to change. Science Tokyo's tuition page also states that undergraduates who entered in 2018 or earlier keep a tuition of 535,800 yen a year while they stay enrolled in the course.

GSEP's own page lists an application fee of JPY 17,000, an enrollment fee of JPY 282,000 and annual tuition of JPY 635,400, with the note that enrollment and tuition fees are subject to change. For any other route, read the fee table in that route's guidelines.

Paying in yen

Amounts are in yen; convert them on the day you pay, because exchange rates move.

Application fees by route

GSEP charges an application fee of JPY 17,000. The medicine and dentistry privately financed selection for the 2027 cycle costs 18,660 yen in total, made up of an examination fee of 17,000 yen and postage of 1,660 yen.

Living costs

Science Tokyo does not publish a monthly living-cost estimate, private apartment rents, food or transport figures. One cost rule is stated: international students who plan to stay in Japan for more than three months must join the National Health Insurance System at their local municipal or ward office, and once enrolled they pay 30% of medical expenses. Premiums differ by ward or city, but the basic amount is approximately JPY 30,000 per year; with a low annual income you can apply for a reduction every year, and the reduced premium is typically approximately JPY 10,000 per year. Plan your own budget from the dormitory fees in the housing chapter or rent quotes in the area you choose, and from the scholarship amounts described in the next chapter.

For the April 2027 intake of GSEP, Science Tokyo recommends 8 outstanding applicants for the MEXT scholarship, which waives enrollment fee and tuition and pays an undergraduate stipend of JPY 120,000 a month for four years. Applicants who are not residing in Japan and do not receive MEXT may apply for the JASSO Monbukagakusho Honors Scholarship of JPY 48,000 a month.

The figures below come from the GSEP page and apply to GSEP applicants for April 2027. The privately financed selections for science and engineering and for medicine and dentistry have no scholarship amounts of their own on their route pages, and Science Tokyo states that its amounts may change.

MEXT Scholarship: the funding route attached to GSEP

GSEP admits 8 MEXT scholarship recipients and 10 privately funded international students. The MEXT students are exempt from the enrollment fee and tuition and receive the stipend of JPY 120,000 a month for four years, subject to change. Science Tokyo reviews MEXT students' academic achievements every year. A grade point average below 2.3, or failure to meet its academic standards, ends the further scholarship stipends.

The GSEP page tells applicants who apply for another MEXT scholarship programme, such as one that needs a recommendation from the Japanese Embassy or Consulate General, or for a JASSO scholarship, that they must decline candidacy of the MEXT scholarship offered under GSEP. The stages and dates of the embassy route are not on the university's pages, so check with the Japanese embassy in your country.

JASSO Honors Scholarship

Science Tokyo states that applicants who wish to enroll under a scholarship other than those offered by MEXT, and who do not reside in Japan, may apply for the Monbukagakusho Honors Scholarship for Privately Financed International Students provided by JASSO. The monthly stipend is JPY 48,000, subject to change on JASSO directives, and the scholarship is offered starting April 2027 through March 2028. It does not replace fees: a JASSO scholar still pays the application, enrollment and tuition fees.

Fee exemptions and other scholarships

Science Tokyo runs its own tuition fee exemption system for undergraduate programs. For science and engineering only, it lists scholarships for outstanding international undergraduate students, and scholarships for international students in lieu of tuition fee exemptions. Science Tokyo's scholarship page states no exemption amounts. Science Tokyo also states that there are scholarships for outstanding international students other than MEXT or JASSO, but that they are usually awarded to students who have already studied for some period after admission, so you cannot count on one to fund your first year.

Science Tokyo students live in university dormitories, dormitories operated by external organizations, private apartments and shared houses, and its housing support page lists Science Tokyo International House and Science Tokyo 80th Anniversary Hall Housing. Ask each dormitory for its current rent and what the rent includes.

How to find housing as a new international student

Science Tokyo tells students to check dormitory locations, facilities and application conditions through the links on its dormitory page. The International Support Center lists Science Tokyo Housing Support, with Science Tokyo International House and Science Tokyo 80th Anniversary Hall Housing. Science Tokyo's dormitory page does not describe a housing application attached to the admission application, so confirm that with the dormitory you choose before you assume a place comes with admission.

For private rentals, the university explains that in Japan most apartment rental contracts require a co-signer. If international students cannot find a financially stable co-signer in Japan, they should use a guarantor company that acts as a co-signer.

Suzukakedai or Yokohama: two names in the university's pages

The dormitory page names Suzukakedai Campus among its recommended campuses. The campuses page, which lists six campuses, names Yokohama Campus, located in Yokohama, Kanagawa, and has no entry called Suzukakedai. The pages do not reconcile the two names, so check the dormitory's own page for its location before you commit.

Rents

For science and engineering, Science Tokyo has exclusive dormitories for new international students. At Umegaoka Dormitory a single or double room costs JPY 20,000 a month, plus a common service fee of JPY 7,500; at Komaba International House the monthly fee is JPY 30,000, plus a common service fee of JPY 9,500. The university's guide adds that all listed fees may change. Rooms are limited, so Science Tokyo is not able to assign a room to all new students. Ask any other dormitory for its current rent, its room sizes and what the rent includes.

Science Tokyo has six campuses across Tokyo, Kanagawa and Chiba, classes start in April, and its International Support Center was established alongside the institute in October 2024.

The campuses page lists locations but not which School or faculty sits on which campus, and it gives no travel times or campus sizes. For the Ookayama Campus, the guidelines state that all new bachelor students gather there once a week in April and May for a common required course. Housing pages name a Suzukakedai Campus that the campus list does not; the housing chapter sets the two names side by side.

The academic calendar

The campus calendar lists April entrance ceremonies for the spring entry. In April, science and engineering starts the first quarter (1Q) of lectures, while medical and dental sciences start spring semester classes. So the two systems run on different term structures from the first month, which is one more reason to read only the rules of the system you apply to.

International support, residence status and work

The International Support Center was newly established alongside Institute of Science Tokyo in October 2024. For GSEP's April 2027 intake, the application guide states that Science Tokyo entrusts a Visa Consulting Service which will assist privately funded international students in applying for a Certificate of Eligibility.

If you need a part-time job to pay for studies or other expenses, Science Tokyo states that you must receive permission to engage in activity other than that permitted under your status of residence. With that permission, international students may work up to 28 hours per week, and up to 8 hours per day during extended breaks. Student career events are mainly held in Japanese, as the careers chapter notes.

What the university does not describe

Science Tokyo's admissions and student-guide pages do not describe laboratory culture, the hours students keep, the content or hours of Japanese language courses, or the national mix of the international student body, and they give no international share as a percentage. For daily life in Tokyo, such as transport and food, the university does not publish costs, so treat any such numbers as estimates from outside sources.

Apply to Science Tokyo if you can study in Japanese and pass the EJU, or if you are a strong science and mathematics applicant aiming at the English-taught Bachelor of Engineering GSEP, which has 18 places for April 2027. Skip it if you want an English-taught bachelor's outside engineering, because those who wish to enroll in its Japanese-taught science and engineering programmes must acquire sufficient competence in Japanese prior to admission and no English-taught medical or dental bachelor is listed, and if you cannot reach EJU Japanese of at least 290 out of 450 for the science and engineering Japanese-taught route.

The next dated steps

If you are aiming at a later GSEP selection, Science Tokyo states that a notice applies to the GSEP selection to be conducted in AY 2027 and onward. The GSEP page shows a dated schedule only for the April 2027 intake.

Addressing financial concerns

GSEP lists annual tuition of 635,400 yen, with a one-time enrollment fee of 282,000 yen. GSEP's MEXT scholarship recipients pay no enrollment fee or tuition and receive JPY 120,000 a month. GSEP's page adds that self-funded applicants who do not live in Japan may apply for the JASSO scholarship of JPY 48,000 a month. International students may work up to 28 hours per week with permission. Science Tokyo publishes no living-cost estimate: add your own housing quote to the fee table.

Science Tokyo's admissions pages say nothing about how its degrees are recognised abroad. If you plan a regulated profession such as architecture or medicine, ask your home country's licensing body well before graduation.

Alternatives worth considering

Other universities belong in your own comparison, and Science Tokyo's pages cannot make it for you. College Council has separate guides you can read next to this one: University of Tokyo, Kyoto University, ETH Zurich, EPFL and NUS, NTU and HKU. Compare them on the same basis: the language of teaching, the tests each route asks for, the dated schedule, and the fee table, not on ranking positions.

Summary

Institute of Science Tokyo, formerly Tokyo Institute of Technology, has been one institution since the merger with Tokyo Medical and Dental University on October 1, 2024. Its undergraduate routes for international applicants are Japanese-taught (privately financed selection in each of its two systems) or English-taught (GSEP, engineering only). Keep the systems and cycles apart: the science and engineering privately financed application is in December 2026, the medicine and dentistry privately financed application is in January 2027, and GSEP's April 2027 intake has closed. Science Tokyo's own pages state no rankings, alumni lists or graduate salaries.

Where the facts come from

Science Tokyo publishes its admission rules on the admissions site (admissions.isct.ac.jp), the university site (www.isct.ac.jp), the current-students site (students.isct.ac.jp) and the guideline and announcement documents they host. The former Tokyo Tech site (titech.ac.jp) states that its content will be migrated to the Science Tokyo Web over time and that information on it is valid in relation to Science Tokyo. Schedules change, so check any date on the university's page before you act on it.

Official pages of Institute of Science Tokyo, UCAS, gov.uk and the ranking publishers. Applicant reports, where shown, are self-reported and labelled.

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