Japanese Category, Japanese Language and Culture Module (Nichibun)

1. At least First-year Undergraduate student/First-year master’s student/First-year doctoral student. According to the year of study recorded in the Office of Academic Affairs system at the time of internal selection..
2. Japanese at least 2 level.
3. Not available to students in the College of Law, College of Management.

General Category, Global Education Module (GEM，舊名CGE)

1. At least First-year Undergraduate student/First-year master’s student/First-year doctoral student. According to the year of study recorded in the Office of Academic Affairs system at the time of internal selection..
2. TOEFL iBT 79 (Do not accept Home Edition) or IELTS 6.0.
3. Not available to students in the College of Law, College of Management.

1. The language requirements listed are the minimum standards. Applicants are advised to look into specific departments and courses to ensure they meet all prerequisites and additional language criteria. The host institution reserves the right to deny admission if no suitable departments or courses are available.
2. For exchange information, please refer to the website and Information Sheet.
3. Japanese group：Japanese Language and Culture Module (Nichibun)
   • List of Courses and Syllabuses
   • Courses are conducted in Japanese. Students are placed in classes based on the result of our Japanese language placement test regardless of Bachelor, Master or PhD.
   • For Nichibun students who are placed in Japanese level 5 or higher are allowed to take courses in Japanese offered by faculties. However, Law School, Business School and Faculty of Engineering don't open any courses to Nichibun exchange students.
   • Students in CJLC program: Law School, Business School and Institute for the Liberal Arts (ILA) don’t open any courses
4. General group：Global Education Module (GEM，Former name: CGE)
   • List of Courses and Syllabuses
   • The Global Education Module (GEM) offers inter-disciplinary courses all conducted in English, designed for international and Japanese students to foster a better understanding of Japan in a global context. GEM provides in-depth learning opportunities in different fields ranging from the humanities and social sciences to the natural and human sciences.
   • Exchange students who intend to principally take courses on Japanese Culture, Society, and Nature in English offered by GEM are accepted as ‘GEM students’. [In contrast, exchange students who intend to study mainly Japanese language are accepted as "Nichibun students".)
   • Courses offered by CGE are undergraduate level, if Master and PhD students understand it, we can accept students regardless of Bachelor, Master or PhD.
   • GEM students are not allowed take courses offered by any Graduate Schools other than ILA (undergraduate level).
   • Students in CGE program: Law School and Business School don’t open any courses 
5. Courses that are available vary depending on each student’s Japanese level. Also note that there are the courses that cannot be taken. Such include seminar courses, subjects offered by Faculty of Science and Engineering and Faculty of Life and Medical Sciences, and subjects not open to other faculty students.
6. The institution only opens undergraduate-level courses for all students to enroll in; graduate and doctoral students are advised to consider the course enrollment restrictions on their own.
7. Provided that they meet the relevant academic background and course enrollment requirements, exchange students may take courses across different disciplines, and graduate students may enroll in undergraduate-level courses.
8. Minimum credit requirement：Students should take more than 7 classes (1 class = 90 minutes) at least per week. It is prescribed by law.
9. Estimated cost of living: The average monthly living cost in Kyoto is around ¥120,000 including rent (at the very least 100,000JPY). Please keep this in mind when making plans to study in Japan.  
10. All exchange students need to pay ¥2,500/semester as Educational Support Fee to the Center for Global Education at the beginning of each semester. (The amount of fee is subject to change.)
11. Insurance information: All International students residing in Japan for more than 3 months are required to enroll in the insurance.
12. For scholarship information, please refer to this link.

1. Exchange students who have been selected and granted institutional nomination by the university must submit their exchange admission application to the host university in accordance with the language requirement under which they were admitted (JLPT, IELTS, or TOEFL iBT).
   For example, students who obtained exchange eligibility based on JLPT results must apply to the host university’s regular exchange student program (i.e., courses taught in Japanese). Students who obtained exchange eligibility based on IELTS or TOEFL iBT results must apply to the host university’s English-taught exchange student program (usually English-taught courses offered by international or global studies faculties specifically for international students).
2. Exchange students who have been selected and nominated by the university may not request changes to the admission conditions after receiving admission approval from the host university, nor may they request to reapply under a different set of conditions if their exchange application is rejected by the host university (including, but not limited to, changing from a Japanese-taught program to an English-taught program). Any such cases will result in immediate cancellation of exchange eligibility and will be subject to penalties and fines.
3. If the host university offers two or more exchange student programs in different languages, the exchange quotas are calculated separately. Applications for exchange admission under different language requirements are also reviewed by different committees at the host university.