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Applications and Admissions

Domestic students applying to UTokyo take the common national university entrance examination, following which successful students can choose to take the University of Tokyo’s entrance examination.

Undergraduate and graduate admissions are accepted for start in April and in October. Undergraduate information is usually available roughly nine months in advance and applications are usually submitted roughly four months in advance. The dates for graduate admissions vary widely. Please check the website of each Faculty or Graduate School for further information.

(As of April 1, 2022)

Applicants to undergraduate programs
Division Applicants Successful applicants Other Total entrants
Humanities and Social Sciences I 1,285 405 11 424
Humanities and Social Sciences II 1,090 358 10 376
Humanities and Social Sciences III 1,498 469 34 520
Natural Sciences I 2,978 1,121 13 1,161
Natural Sciences II 2,235 547 25 583
Natural Sciences III 421 97 1 102
Admission by recommendation 240 88 - -
Total 9,747 3,085 94 3,166

(Successful applicants in Admission by recommendation are included in Humanities and Social Sciences I to III and Natural Sciences I and II. "Other" includes entrants via government-sponsored and other special programs including PEAK.)

(As of May 1, 2022)

Applicants to graduate programs
Subject MA and Professional PhD
Applicants Entrants Applicants Entrants
Humanities and Sociology 333 113 126 68
Education 280 84 90 41
Law and Politics 701 238 30 5
Economics 460 97 40 22
Arts and Sciences 551 203 177 118
Science 561 335 215 171
Engineering 1,338 903 226 195

Agricultural and Life Sciences

438 296 136 114
Medicine 148 68 216 204
Pharmaceutical Sciences 103 86 52 47
Mathematical Sciences 110 32 24 23
Frontier Sciences 789 351 171 122
Information Science and Technology 526 254 71 43
Interdisciplinary Information Studies 375 97 59 38
Public Policy 245 72 13 1
Total 6,958 3,229 1,646 1,212
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