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About the graduate school entrance examination system

All graduate schools offer entrance examinations for both regular applicants and working adults (except the Graduate School of Medical Sciences, which does not offer an examination for working adults).
The Graduate School of Humanities' Education and Clinical Psychology program, the Graduate School of Medical Sciences' Nursing Science program, and the Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences' Pharmaceutical Health Science program do not offer an entrance examination for international students.

Entrance examination guidelines

The University stopped distributing a pamphlet describing its entrance examination guidelines with the 2020 academic year version of the document. That information is now available from our website and as a downloadable PDF file.(Japanese site)

Review the entrance examination guidelines and application documents (on University-designated forms) by accessing the link to the web page for the graduate school to which you're interested in applying. To apply, download, print, and fill in the application requirements.

(Japanese site)

　　　　

*Foreign national (excluding Long Term Resident, Permanent Resident, and Special Permanent Residents) must take the entrance examination for international students.

*For International applicants, please contact the University's Graduate School Administration Office by e-mail in advance as there are other entrance examination guidelines.

▷ Domestic applicants: the foreigner who resides in Japan.

▷ International applicants: the person who resides outside Japan

Application dates, entrance examination dates, and result announcement dates

Please see each graduate school's entrance examination guidelines for more information.

*In the event that examinations may be affected by a typhoon, storm, heavy snow, earthquake, or other natural disaster, we will provide information on the top page of our website.

*Please keep your "The Examination card with the examinee's number" until the enrollment process is completed.

Access https://www.fukuoka-u.ac.jp/, click Graduate Schools on the top page, and click Graduate School websites from Graduate Schools menu.

Fall entrance examination

Entrance examination for international students

Graduate school Application dates Examination date Result announcement date
Graduate School of Humanities
(except Education and Clinical Psychology program)		 Domestic applicants: Tuesday, July 16,
to Thursday, July 18, 2024		 Tuesday,
September 10		 Monday,
September 30,
2024
Graduate School of Law Monday,
September 9
Graduate School of Economics Tuesday,
September 10
Graduate School of Commerce Wednesday,
September 11
Graduate School of Science Wednesday,
September 11
Graduate School of Engineering Monday,
September 9
Graduate School of Sports and Health Science Saturday,
September 7

Spring entrance examination

Entrance examination for international students

Graduate school Application dates Examination date Result announcement date
Graduate School of Humanities
(except Education and Clinical Psychology program)		 International applicants: Accepted on a rolling basis with a final deadline of Thursday, October 31, 2024

Domestic applicants: Monday, December 9, to Wednesday, December 11, 2024		 Monday,
February 17		 Monday,
March 10, 2025
Graduate School of Law Monday,
February 17
Graduate School of Economics Tuesday,
February 18
Graduate School of Commerce Wednesday,
February 19
Graduate School of Science Wednesday,
February 19
Graduate School of Engineering Monday,
February 17
Graduate School of Medical Sciences
(except Nursing Science program)		 Wednesday,
February 19
Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences
(except Pharmaceutical Health Science program)		 Tuesday,
February 18
Graduate School of Sports and Health Science Friday,
February 14

Entrance examination fee

Secondary screening fee for international students(except Graduate School of Medical Sciences) 30,000 yen
Secondary screening fee for international students(Graduate School of Medical Sciences) 32,000 yen

For more information about payment methods, please see the entrance examination guidelines.

Applicants without a degree
(Except applicants expecting to graduate from an undergraduate or graduate master's program)

Only applicants whose eligibility has been verified by advance screening may take the entrance examination. Please see the entrance examination guidelines for more information.

Application dates Fall Tuesday, July 16, to Thursday, July 18, 2024
Spring Monday, December 9, to Wednesday, December 11, 2024

Applicants with vision, hearing, or other physical disabilities

If you require special consideration in order to take the examination or study, for example due to an illness or disability, please contact the University's Graduate School Administration Office as soon as possible before you apply. (Please provide a doctor's certificate that describes the specific nature of your condition. If you have a disability passbook, please attach a copy.)