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Admission for Graduate Students

Qualifications

・Master's course applicants: The completion of 16 years of education in a country other than Japan.
・Doctoral course applicants: The completion of a master's degree course in a country other than Japan.
・PhD course in the Faculty of Medicine: The completion of 18 years of education in a country other than Japan.
As the qualifications vary among graduate schools, please refer to each application handbook.
 

Admissions procedures

Application forms will be available at the Admission Section, Kumamoto University. Applicants should submit the application forms to the Admissions Division by the appointed day.
Kumamoto University grants admission to applicants based on the results of an entrance examination, as well as an examination of each applicant's application documents. Regarding the contents of the examinations, please refer to each respective application form.
Successful applicants will be notified by mail within a month of their examination.
 

Schedule for entrance examinations

  Master's Program Doctoral Program
Graduate School of Social and Cultural Sciences September/ February February
Graduate School of Education September
Graduate School of Science and Technology August/ January August
Graduate School of Medical Sciences August/ January August/ February
Graduate School of Health Sciences August September
Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences August / December August / December / March
School of Law September / October
*Please note that the schedule shown above may differ slightly depending on the year.