Exchange Student (non-degree) Updated on March 19, 2025
Definition:
An Exchange Student is an international student from university which has a bilateral agreement with Graduate School of Information Science and Technology at UTokyo (please refer to this page ). Exchange students can study for 6 months to 1 year under the supervision of a faculty member of Graduate School of Information Science and Technology at UTokyo. During this period, exchange students can also learn Japanese useful for campus activities and daily life.
How to apply?
The University of Tokyo is a research-oriented University and a part of our unique culture here is that every student belongs to a laboratory under a supervising professor. Therefore, you as an exchange student must also find a professor who will accept you in his/her lab and supervises you during the exchange program.
After getting an informal acceptance from your prospective supervising professor, you must upload the proof of your acceptance on our WEB Application System as well as all the other application documents by the deadline.
Period of Online Application
Winter semester (October 2025) enrollment →
Online Application Period: Monday, March 17 - Friday, April 11, 2025
Summer semester (April 2026) enrollment →
Online Application Period: Monday, September 15 - Friday, October 10, 2025
Application Guide
You will need an ID and password to enter WEB Application System. Please contact your student exchange coordinator in your own university first if you want to apply.
Admission Application Procedure
・Application Procedure
・[FormA] Research Plan
CoE Application Procedure
・Please download the procedure and the forms from your "My Page" on WEB Application System.
Online Application Procedures
1. Prepare the necessary materials for your application.
Check the Application Procedure and prepare the necessary materials for your application.
This may include your transcripts, certificates, photograph, etc.
2. Enter and check the details of your application through the application system below.
(*Available from 3/17)
Enter WEB Application System for Exchange Students here.
■Very Important Notes on Photograph Data■
・Prepare a photograph as guided below:
－Plain background
－NO SHADOWS on the background or on your face
－Upper body, FACING FORWARD
－Teeth should not be shown
－Head uncovered
－A high resolution photograph taken within the past 3 months
－Must be different from your current passport photo
－Please ask yourself, "If I were to create a new passport, would I be allowed
to use this photo?"
3. Submit (Upload) your application documents.
【Important】 Application documents must be submitted only by uploading the files to the WEB Application System.
■Convert all the required documents into PDF files except for CoE application form and upload them to the 'WEB Application System: My Page'. (*Available from 3/17)
The deadline for October 2025 enrollment: 17:00 JST on April 11, (Fri), 2025
The deadline for April 2026 enrollment: 17:00 JST on October 10, (Fri), 2025
*Applications will not be accepted if the specified documents are not submitted by the application deadline indicated above.
Office of International Relations (OIR)
Graduate School of Information Science and Technology
The University of Tokyo
1F, Engineer Building No.6,
7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656, JAPAN
TEL:+81-3-5841-4478
Email: istoir(at)gs.mail.u-tokyo.ac.jp
