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Opportunities for studying in Japan

Hi,
I´ve been doing a working holiday in Japan for a couple of months now and really liked it so far. I would really like to stay here and go to University, but one thing thats turning me off are tuition fees. Coming from Germany University back home is pretty much free, so I´m not going to spend tens of thousands to study. Does anybody now a way to study in Japan for as little money as possible?

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  2. If you want to study cheaply in Japan no matter what, you can choose online colleges. That’s much cheaper than normal colleges. Its tuition is generally, 200,000-300,000 yen per year.

    But generally, there is no social life with other students as this is online. And you go to campus at time in summer or winter. You have to buy textbooks. So you need more than just tuition.

    And most of them have classes in Japanese only.

  3. You should check out good public universities like Todai, Kyodai. They are cheaper than private universities like Waseda, Keio.

  4. All national public universities have relatively low tuition fees (300,000 yen per semester or so) with most of them offering heavy discounts to those self funded if you have good grades. Also there is plenty of scholarships but that one is a little harder to get unless you already have a strong acamedic background

  6. What major are you interested in? And why not just go to university in Germany and study abroad here for a year?

  7. On a student visa (either through a Japanese university or while on exchange through a German one) will allow you 20 hours to work. German or English eikaiwa pays fairly well, so you might be able to pull it off.

    A million years ago, I studied Japanese at Nagoya’s Nanzan University while on exchange, and they helped students find job opportunities. Private lessons & the like.

  8. Hi! Im studying in a grad school in Tokyo atm. I got a full scholarship so I suggest you try to look for the same. Good luck!

  9. Go to school in Germany and then do a study abroad year in Japan? Tons of German exchange and a handful of double degree program students in my MBA program (check out HHL Leipzig).

    MBA may not be the program for you but it’s an example, and there are definitely options out there.

  10. AFAIK, most public universities in Japan usually have very generous scholarships for international students. As long as you qualify, you can basically get more than half of your tuition waived. Also, rent is a big expense in Japan, and it’s much cheaper outside of Tokyo. So choosing a university away from the Tokyo area might be a good option, like Hokkaido University or Nagoya University, which are帝国大学. But of course, the most important thing is what you want.

  12. I’m Japanese, studied in Kyoto and made tons of international student friends. The program I would recommend looking at is ILA at Doshisha University; it’s a liberal arts program with political studies, business economics, culture/history concentrations. The reason I recommend it is because the majority of international students get scholarships, either 25%, 50% or 100%. It’s merit based so if you have a good academic record, you have a really good chance of 100% tuition deduction. Most of my friends from the program had 100%. Honestly the entrance process is one of the easiest too.

    Edit: feel free to DM if you have questions (as long as they are not Google-able lol).

  13. All thing held equal, what is your goal? What do you want to get from a university, regardless of the country?

  14. I went to a private uni here (undergrad and grad), and there are quite a few scholarships. Tuition reduction/financial aid would take off 1/3 (one trimester free), and there are an abundance of scholarships you can apply for, especially as a foreign student. INOAC is one that you can get a monthly stipend with, you have to go through some rounds of interviews/tests though. They’re very community oriented, and have get togethers a few times a year (they pay for your transportation to the location, ex. Shinkansen to Osaka from wherever you are if that’s where the event is). There are a lot of others – some offered by the university itself (my uni had one that went for the full 4 years, free tuition to a few students a year) and some offered outside the uni.

    My uni was ICU in Mitaka – bilingual, and you learn japanese if you don’t speak it.

  15. [https://en.apu.ac.jp/home/](https://en.apu.ac.jp/home/)

    I shall promote Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, being an alumni from there.

    Scholarships are pretty easy to get, if you can walk and breath at the same time.

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