Can you afford it

Currency

USD

Yearly cost

$15,000 a year

Before any entrance scholarship.

Tuition and living

Plan about $12,000 to $18,000 a year with tuition and living costs.

Scholarships

MEXT and JASSO scholarships are the main funded routes.

Proof of funds

about $13,300 (¥2,000,000)

That is $1,500 less than one year costs.

Covers one year. Commonly expected, not written into law.

Study in Japan (JASSO), June 2025

Can you get in

Language of instruction

35 of 182 offer at least one fully-English bachelor's.

Everything else is taught in Japanese.

Admission

English track: about 40 universities. Japanese track: the EJU exam.

What you do now

Intakes

Japanese-taught Apr start.

English-taught Sep–Oct start.

Essays

A study plan where the program or scholarship asks for one.

Where you apply

each university's own form, because there is no central system

Embassy of Japan in Mongolia

Where the schools are

Kyoto holds 10 of 182.

• Kyoto→10
• Chiyoda→5
• Bunkyo→4
• Fukuoka→4
• Kobe→4
• Sapporo→4
• Sendai→4
• Hachioji→3
• Hiroshima→3
• Minato→3
• Nagoya→3
• Tokushima→3
• Akita→2
• Aomori→2
• Fuchu→2
• Hakodate→2
• Itabashi→2
• Kawagoe→2
• Kofu→2
• Koto→2
• Matsuyama→2
• Miyazaki→2
• Nagaoka→2
• Nagasaki→2
• Nara→2
• Nishinomiya→2
• Okayama→2
• Sasebo→2
• Setagaya→2
• Shinjuku→2
• Suita→2
• Toshima→2
• Toyohashi→2
• Tsukuba→2
• Utsunomiya→2
• Yokohama→2
• Aizuwakamatsu→1
• Asahikawa→1
• Ashikaga→1
• Beppu→1
• Chiba→1
• Chofu→1
• Daito→1
• Dazaifu→1
• Eniwa→1
• Fukaya→1
• Fukui→1
• Fukusaki→1
• Fukushima→1
• Gifu→1
• Hamamatsu→1
• Higashihiroshima→1
• Higashiomi→1
• Higashiosaka→1
• Hikone→1
• Hirakata→1
• Hirosaki→1
• Izumi→1
• Joetsu→1
• Kagoshima→1
• Kakogawa→1
• Kanazawa→1
• Kanoya→1
• Kariya→1
• Kashiwa→1
• Kashiwara→1
• Kashiwazaki→1
• Kato→1
• Kitakyushu→1
• Kitami→1
• Kochi→1
• Koganei→1
• Kumamoto→1
• Kumatori→1
• Kunitachi→1
• Machida→1
• Maebashi→1
• Matsue→1
• Matsumoto→1
• Meguro→1
• Mitaka→1
• Mito→1
• Moriguchi→1
• Morioka→1
• Munakata→1
• Murakami→1
• Muroran→1
• Musashino→1
• Naruto→1
• Niigata→1
• Niiza→1
• Nisshin→1
• Obihiro→1
• Oita→1
• Osaka→1
• Otaru→1
• Otsu→1
• Saga→1
• Saitama→1
• Seki→1
• Shibuya→1
• Shiojiri→1
• Shizuoka→1
• Taito→1
• Takamatsu→1
• Takeo→1
• Tobetsu→1
• Togane→1
• Tokai→1
• Tomakomai→1
• Tottori→1
• Toyama→1
• Tsu→1
• Urayasu→1
• Wakayama→1
• Yamagata→1
• Yamaguchi→1
• Yao→1

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