Cost of studying in Japan: tuition fees at 373 universities
A year's tuition in Japan runs from ¥75,000 to ¥8,410,000, and typically ¥175,000 to ¥642,960, across the 373 universities that publish a rate.
- Universities with a published fee
- 373
- Typical year
- ¥175,000 – ¥642,960
- Lowest published
- ¥75,000
- Highest published
- ¥8,410,000
Every figure on this page is the rate the university or the country's own fee law publishes for an international student. Where a university publishes nothing, it is left out rather than estimated, so 373 is the number of universities in Japan that state a rate, not the number that exist.
What each university charges an international student
The rate each university publishes for a year, in JPY. Open a university to see which programmes the rate covers and where the figure came from.
| University | City | THE rank | Tuition a year |
|---|---|---|---|
| The University of Tokyo | Tokyo | 26 | ¥535,800 – ¥642,960 |
| Kyoto University | Kyoto | 61 | ¥535,800 – ¥642,960 |
| Tohoku University | Sendai | 103 | ¥535,800 – ¥642,960 |
| The University of Osaka | Osaka | 151 | ¥535,800 – ¥642,960 |
| Institute of Science Tokyo | Tokyo | 166 | ¥535,800 – ¥642,960 |
| Nagoya University | Nagoya | 201-250 | ¥535,800 – ¥642,960 |
| Kyushu University | Fukuoka | 301-350 | ¥84,600 – ¥804,000 |
| University of Tsukuba | Tsukuba | 351-400 | ¥535,800 – ¥642,960 |
| Hokkaido University | Sapporo | 351-400 | ¥535,800 – ¥642,960 |
| Hiroshima University | Hiroshima | 601-800 | ¥535,800 – ¥642,960 |
| Kobe University | Kobe | 601-800 | ¥535,800 – ¥642,960 |
| The University of Aizu | Fukushima | 601-800 | ¥84,600 – ¥564,000 |
| Yokohama City University | Yokohama | 1001-1200 | ¥178,200 – ¥573,000 |
| Chiba University | Chiba | 1001-1200 | ¥535,800 – ¥642,960 |
| Kumamoto University | Kumamoto | 1001-1200 | ¥273,900 – ¥594,600 |
| Kanazawa University | Kanazawa | 1001-1200 | ¥535,800 – ¥642,960 |
| Hamamatsu University School of Medicine | Hamamatsu | 1001-1200 | ¥130,000 – ¥267,900 |
| Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology | Tokyo | 1201-1500 | ¥535,800 – ¥642,960 |
| Kansai Medical University | Osaka | 1201-1500 | ¥245,000 – ¥2,900,000 |
| Nagoya City University | Nagoya | 1201-1500 | ¥178,200 – ¥267,900 |
| Niigata University | Niigata | 1201-1500 | ¥535,800 – ¥642,960 |
| Hitotsubashi University | Tokyo | 1201-1500 | ¥535,800 – ¥642,960 |
| The University of Electro-Communications | Tokyo | 1201-1500 | ¥535,800 – ¥642,960 |
| Nagasaki University | Nagasaki | 1201-1500 | ¥535,800 – ¥642,960 |
| Gifu University | Gifu | 1201-1500 | ¥535,800 – ¥642,960 |
| Toyohashi University of Technology | Toyohashi | 1201-1500 | ¥535,800 – ¥642,960 |
| Shinshu University | Matsumoto | 1201-1500 | ¥535,800 – ¥642,960 |
| Tokushima University | Tokushima | 1201-1500 | ¥76,740 – ¥152,070 |
| Hosei University | Tokyo | 1201-1500 | ¥80,000 |
| Tokai University | Tokyo | 1201-1500 | ¥200,000 |