Graduate School Entrance Examinations

Applicant & Enrollment Figures for Graduate Schools

• Admission in October 2023
• Admission in April 2024

Screening for admissions to graduate schools

General screening

Each graduate school at OU conducts its own screening for admissions. Please confirm Application Guidelines with application materials. Please direct requests for application materials or questions about research contents to the graduate school of your choice.

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Special screening for graduate schools

The schedules for "special screening" vary according to school. For special screening for international students, special screening for working people, screening for those admitted in October, and screening for third year undergraduate students, please contact the school you are interested in directly.

Special screening for international graduate students

The following graduate schools conduct special screenings for international students as well as, in some cases, accepting international students through the general admission application process.

Graduate schools conducting special screening for international students

• Graduate School of Humanities -- Master's course, Doctor's course
• Graduate School of Science -- Master's course
• Graduate School of Dentistry -- Doctor's course
• Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences -- Master's course, Pharmaceutical Sciences; Doctor's course, Pharmaceutical Sciences; Doctor's course, Pharmacy
• Graduate School of Engineering -- Master's course, Doctor's course
• Graduate School of Engineering Science -- Master's course
• Graduate School of Information Science and Technology -- Master's course, Doctor's course

Graduate schools screening students -- including international students -- for general admission

• Graduate School of Law and Politics -- Master's course
• Division of Health Sciences, Graduate School of Medicine -- Master's course, Doctor's course
• Applied Japanese Course, Japanese Major/Foreign Studies Major, Graduate School of Humanities -- Master's course
• Osaka School of International Public Policy -- Master's course, Doctor's course

Special screening for working people

The following graduate schools conduct special screenings for working people.

• Graduate School of Humanities -- Master's course, Doctor's course
• Graduate School of Human Sciences -- Master's course, Doctor's course
• Graduate School of Law and Politics -- Doctor's course
• Graduate School of Dentistry -- Doctor's course
• Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences -- Master's course, Pharmaceutical Sciences; Doctor's course, Pharmaceutical Sciences; Doctor's course, Pharmacy
• Graduate School of Engineering Science -- Master's course, Doctor's course
• Graduate School of Information Science and Technology -- Master's course
• Osaka University Law School -- Law school course

Autumn (October) admission

Prospective students may apply for autumn (October) admission to the following schools:

• Graduate School of Humanities -- Master's course, Doctor's course (Applied Japanese Course, Japanese Major)
• Graduate School of Science -- Master's course, Doctor's course
• Graduate School of Engineering -- Doctor's course
• Graduate School of Engineering Science -- Doctor's course
• Osaka School of International Public Policy -- Doctor's course
• Graduate School of Information Science and Technology -- Doctor's course

Transfer of third-year graduate students

Prospective students may apply for autumn admission to:

• Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences -- Doctor's course (5-year course)

Grade skipping for third-year undergraduate students
Prospective applicants may apply for one of the following screenings for the  schools noted below:

Special screening for third-year undergraduate students

• Graduate School of Science -- Master's course
• Graduate School of Engineering -- Master's course
• Graduate School of Information Science and Technology -- Master's course

General screening including third-year undergraduate students to the following schools

• Graduate School of Law and Politics -- Master's course
• Graduate School of Economics -- Master's course
• Division of Health Sciences, Graduate School of Medicine -- Master's course
• Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences -- Master's course
• Graduate School of Engineering Sciences -- Master's course
• Osaka School of International Public Policy -- Master's course
• Osaka University Law School -- Law school course
• Division of Language and Culture, Graduate School of Humanities -- Master's course