Japanese Category

1. At least First-year Undergraduate student/At least First-year master’s student (excluding doctoral students). According to the year of study recorded in the Office of Academic Affairs system at the time of internal selection..
2. GPA should be higher than 3.30.
3. Japanese at least 1 level, 部分日文專攻課程需繳交兩年內J1成績及／或滿足總分或分項J1成績要求，詳情請見注意事項.

General Category

1. At least First-year Undergraduate student/At least First-year master’s student (excluding doctoral students). According to the year of study recorded in the Office of Academic Affairs system at the time of internal selection..
2. GPA should be higher than 3.30.
3. TOEFL iBT 79 (Do not accept Home Edition) or IELTS 6.0.

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, Fact Sheet (For reference only), Brochure, and Television interview.
3. For descriptions of the two types of programs offered by the institution (General group and Japanese group), please refer to this link.
4. For course information, please refer to the website.
5. The following courses are NOT open to Exchange Students.
   • FLA core programs
   • FST laboratory classes
   • GPGS compulsory courses
   • the foreign language courses (except Japanese language)
   • Seminars
   • Compulsory courses in General Studies, “Studies in Christian Humanism: For Others, with Others”, “Liberal Arts of the Body”, “Critical Thinking & Writing”, “Overview of Data Science”, “Thinking about Issues, Perspectives and Positionality”.
   • Academic English courses under University-wide General Studies (Courses with registration codes that start from GSP and the numberings with ENG)
6. In principle, all applicants of Japanese-taught programs are required to submit Japanese-Language Proficiency Test N1 certificate; in addition:
   • Applicants who wish to enroll in the Graduate Program in Linguistics (言語学専攻) must submit proof of a JLPT N1 obtained within two years from the time of application.
   • Applicants who wish to take the Japanese Language Education Course (日本語教育学コース) subjects in the Graduate Program in Linguistics (言語学専攻) must submit proof of a JLPT N1 score of 150 or higher. For those who are applying to other Japanese-taught graduate program, a higher level may be required for the breakdown score in addition to passing the N1 level.
7. Applicants who apply for the Graduate Program in Global Studies are expected to have a higher English ability. Applicants who cannot fulfill the following minimum language requirement will be denied the entrance into the program: 100 on TOEFL iBT or 7.0 on IELTS (Academic)
8. Exchange students should choose most courses from the departments/graduate program that he/she enrolled in.
9. Master/PhD students: If they decided to take only undergraduate level courses when the application, please apply for undergraduate department.
10. Exchange Students must register for more than 10 hours of class work per week (600 minutes, 1 hour being 60 minutes). This is namely 6 periods as 100 minutes constitute one period. 
11. Visa, Scholarship, Video
12. Estimated Cost of Living
    • Meals: ¥30,000 - ¥60,000 per month
    • Public Transportation: ¥5,000 - ¥10,000 per month
    • Books: ¥30,000 - ¥50,000 per semester
    • Personal Expenses: ¥30,000up per month
13. Insurance: In principle, all exchange students have to join Japanese National Health Insurance after you arrive in Japan. 

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.