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Studying in Japan

universities
8
courses
139
English-taught
107
scholarships
5

StudyPath lists 8 universities in Japan and 139 courses between them, 107 of which are taught in English. The cheapest verified fee is about US$3,484 a year, at The University of Tokyo. 8 of these universities publish their own accommodation prices. Every figure was read from the university's own published page and last checked on 2026-09-23.

Filter these 8 universitiesAll 139 courses, cheapest first

What the fee figure leaves out

A published fee is not what you pay

8 courses here, across 5 universities, carry a sourced note about a cost the headline figure does not include — a compulsory contribution, an income-tested scale, an annual increase that applies from year two, a rule about who qualifies. The most widely shared of them:

Students enrolled in IUPS get preferential first-year on-campus dormitory placement. All University of Osaka students, IUPS included, can apply for a tuition-fee exemption, and IUPS students can additionally apply for scholarships from local governments, international associations and private foundations — none of these are a guaranteed award with a stated…

“Students enrolled in this program will be assigned to on-campus dormitories for the first year on a preferential basis. Financial Support There are various scholarships that IUPS students can apply for, such as: Scholarships from local governments or international associations Scholarships from…”

The University of Osaka · read from International Undergraduate Program in Science (IUPS) | School of Science, The University of Osaka. Open any course on that page to see the sentence it came from.

What it costs

Annual international tuition, converted to US dollars so the two ends compare. The published figure in its own currency is the authoritative one.

Cheapest

US$3,484a year

The University of Tokyo

Dearest

US$10,299a year

Waseda

What it costs to live

Student housing published by the university itself or by the body that runs its halls, cheapest first. Shown in the currency and period each one publishes — not converted, because a converted rent is a worse number than the real one.

How Japan compares with other countries

Ranked against every other country on StudyPath. Countries charge in different currencies, so these figures are converted to US dollars and are approximate; the published figure, in its own currency, is on each university's page.

 JapanAmong countriesRange across countries
Lowest international tuition you would paya year, cheapest course that charges anything~US$3,500at The University of Tokyo35th lowest of 64 countries~US$207 (France) to ~US$27,300 (Hong Kong)
Tuition-free degrees we listpublished at zero for international studentsNone7 countries have some931 in Germany at most
Cheapest student housing a university publishesfor a year, from the lowest rate on its own site~US$367at The University of Tokyo14th lowest of 66 countriesFree (Saudi Arabia) to ~US$12,000 (Iceland)

Converted to US dollars at the site's exchange rates of 13 Sept 2026. A fee or rent published per term, month or week is scaled to a year, and housing is counted for twelve months of holding the room. The living-cost figure is what an immigration authority requires a student visa applicant to show, taken as a year; the UK's, for example, covers at most nine months, so this overstates it. See student finance for each country's exact wording.

Student accommodation in Japan: every university's published rent →

Universities in Japan

Ranked universities first, then the rest by how many courses they publish. Unranked never means worse — it means QS has not measured it.