(Updated on February 14, 2025)
Information on the admission fee and tuition fee exemption for the first half of the 2025 academic year have been released.
Please refer to the following PDF file for details on the changes from the previous academic year.
Important Notice Regarding the 2025 Academic Year Tuition Exemption Program (PDF: 242KB)
NOTICES
This system provides full or partial exemption from admission/tuition fees for those who are approved after screening based on their application.
Please understand that we operate the exemption program under a very tight budget.
Your application may not be approved. Please be prepared to pay the fees in advance.
In particular, the possibility of receiving an admission fee exemption is quite low. If you do not pay the admission fee by the designated date, as indicated in the results, you will lose your student status in accordance with university regulations.
Exemptions of Admission & Tuition Fee for the First Half of 2025
1. Eligibility
Exemption of Admission FeeStudents (excluding research students and auditing students) entering the University to whom any of the following applies:
a) Students who have difficulties in paying admission fees due to economic reasons and who are recognized as having outstanding academic capabilities (graduate students only.)
b) Students who are recognized as having extreme difficulties in paying the admission fees due to either of the following reasons:
- The death of the persons responsible for the payment of their school expenses occurring one year or less prior to admission.
- Damages sustained by students or persons responsible for the payment of their school expenses caused by wind, flood or other natural disasters occurring one year or less prior to admission.
c) Students who are recognized as having other unavoidable circumstances.
Exemption of Tuition Fee
Undergraduate or graduate students (excluding research students and auditing students) to whom any one of the following applies:
a) Students who have difficulties in paying tuition due to economic reasons and who are recognized as having outstanding academic capabilities.
b) Students who are recognized as having extreme difficulties in paying tuition due to the following reason:
¡¡¡¡?Damages sustained by students or the persons responsible for the payment of their school expenses caused by wind, flood or other natural disasters.
c) Students who are recognized as having other unavoidable circumstances.
2. Application Forms
- Application Procedure for 2025, Admission / Tuition Fee Exemption / Deferred Payment (PDF: 96KB)
- Notice for Submission of Missing Documents (PDF: 517KB)
- Frequently Asked Questions
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| ? | Envelope sheet for mailing application (PDF: 532KB)
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Other required documents
There are other cases in which you need to submit other documents additionally. Please refer to the full list of required documents here. (PDF: 520KB)
¡¡ How to obtain the other application forms &°ù²¹°ù°ù;¡¡Please download the application forms from here.
3. Precautions
- Applicants outside Japan must ask someone in Japan to act as a domestic proxy to submit their application during the application period.
The proxy must attach their identification and a proxy letter (PDF: 69KB) signed by the applicant.
Application documents sent directly from overseas will not be accepted. - After submission, payment of the relevant fees will be deferred until the results are announced. If an applicant pays the fees before the results are announced, their eligibility for the exemption will be revoked.
- Applicants who applied for both the first and second half of 2025 during the first half's application period do not need to reapply for the second half.
However, students meeting any of the following conditions must resubmit their applications for the second half.- If the information provided in the application on April 1 (family, study, or household budget) has changed by October 1.
- If students have changed programs in October.
(e.g., cases where an applicant completes a Master's program in September and enters a Doctorate program in October, or completes the Junior Division in September and enters the Senior Division in October) - If students were expected to graduate or complete the program but remain enrolled beyond the program duration.
- If applications for both the first and second half are submitted together, selection results will be determined separately for each half. Thus, even if an application or exemption is approved for the first half, the result for the second half may differ. Applicants should check the selection result for the second half separately.
- To withdraw your application, sign in with your ´ºÓêÖ±²¥app Account and complete .
- To continue receiving a tuition fee exemption, you must apply every academic year. The results of this academic year's application will not be carried over to the next academic year.
Applicants seeking tuition fee exemption for the next academic year (April 2026 – March 2027) must submit the required documents and apply again by the deadline.
4. Deferred Payment of Admission and Tuition Fees
Once the application is submitted, the payment of the relevant fee will be deferred until the results are determined (by the end of July).
If you wish to apply for additional deferment of the tuition fee payment, please download the form from the link below.
(The application period for deferment of the admission fee payment has ended.)
5. Contact information
Please include your name, student ID number (if you are a current student), graduate school and program (undergraduate, graduate, doctoral, or professional) in the body of your email inquiry.
Before contacting the University, please view the Frequently Asked Questions and FAQ for exemption pages to see if there is an answer to your inquiry.
If your question pertains to a particular program/department, please contact that program/department directly.
* For questions regarding the payment method of the tuition fee, please contact Income and Liability Team.
* For questions regarding admission/tuition fee other than the payment method, please contact your Faculty or Graduate School.
*Please be sure to include the applicant information in your email, otherwise you will not receive a response.
You can cut and paste the inquiry template below into your email.
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¡ö Applicant information (required)
Faculty / Graduate School (as of April 1):
Course: Undergraduate/ Master's/ Doctoral/ Professional
Full name:
Student ID number (8 digits): (If you do not know your student ID number before admission / advancement, please enter the name of the department or graduate school you plan to enter or continue your studies at.)
¡ö Inquiry content
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| All departments except the three departments below | Tuition Fee Exemption Team, the Student Scholarship and Welfare Group Email: syougaku.adm@gs.mail.u-tokyo.ac.jp |
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Only for students who entered the following College and Graduate Schools ?College of Arts and Sciences |
Scholarship Fund Section, Student Affairs Division at the College of Arts and Science Komaba Campus, Administration Building 1st Floor, Counter #7 Email: s-shikin.c@gs.mail.u-tokyo.ac.jp |
