About application requirements for applicants wishing student visa

In order to enroll in Tokyo International Exchange College Ikebukuro as an international student, please contact us directly or through study abroad consultants in your area.

If you have any question about our school or application documents, you can contact us directly by email or Skype. You can also ask questions through a local intermediary.

Study abroad visas may take several months from application to acquisition. In addition, even after you send us the necessary documents, we will still have some documents to be corrected or added, so please prepare early enough before the deadline. (Application will be closed as soon as the capacity is reached).

Please see here for the flow of application process 
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Admissions： Full-Time Students (Pre-College Students)

• April Enrollment: study duration: 2 years
• October Enrollment: study duration: 1.5 years

General Requirements

• Individuals who have graduated (or expecting to graduate) from a high school or higher education
• Applicants are required to be physically and mentally healthy
• Applicants who are willing to proceed to higher education in Japan, such as universities or vocational schools or graduate schools

Campus Location

3-19-7 Minamiotsuka, Toshima-ku, Tokyo 170-0005 Japan

Selection Process

Document screening and interview

Admission Fee

30,000 JPY  (※Japanese translation for documents: extra 15,000 JPY, if required）

Tuition and other payments

(The following fees should be paid after obtaining the Certificate of Eligibility)

FIRST YEAR
Enrollment fee	Tuition （One year）	Textbook fee （One year）	Facility fee （One year）	Total（JPY）
54,000	641,000	22,000	33,000	750,000

 

SECOND YEAR
	APRIL ADMISSION	OCTOBER ADMISSION
Tuition	641,000	320,500
Textbook fee	22,000	11,000
Facility fee	33,000	16,500
Total（JPY）	696,000	348,000

 

Other payments:

1. JLPT Examination fee (for 2 times): ￥13,000

All students are required to take JLPT exam (Japanese-Language Proficiency Test) in 2 times during your study period at our school. Please pay this fee before coming to Japan.

If you pass JLPT N2 (or higher) at the first exam, you will be reimbursed the remaining fee (6,500 JPY)

*If you already passed the JLPT at level N2 (or higher) before coming to Japan, you don’t have to make this payment.

2. Insurance fee

To make sure all of our students have a more safety life in Japan, we have been introducing the “Japanese Language School Co-op” insurance policy for students since April 2022. If there is an unexpected illness or accident, this insurance will pay for the 30% self-fee which is not covered by the National Insurance.

	FIRST YEAR (Pay before coming to Japan）	SECOND YEAR
		APRIL SESSION	OCTOBER SESSION
Insurance fee (JPY)	10,000	10,000	5,800

 

Required documents for the applicant

 

Required documents for the financial sponsor

 

Notes for filling out Admission application:

1. Resume

• 「出生地」（Place of birth）: please fill in name of the city where you were born.
• 「本国住所」（Address in home country）and other address fields: please fill in the address in detail up to street number. Those addresses must be matched together.
• 「所在地」　(School address) in the part 「学歴」(Educational background): please fill in the address in detail up to street number.
• 「就学年数」(Japanese study period): please fill in the total number of hours for learning Japanese. Please make sure that it is matched with the Certificate of Learning Japanese.
• For your Japanese language learning history, please fill in all the schools you have studied so far and please submit the study certificate of all those schools
• Please list all of your work history and history of living in Japan. If you do not have enough space, please use a separate sheet.
• About Purpose of Study in Japan, please describe in detail all of the following issues:
  • The purpose of studying in Japan: What are you studying in order to come to Japan? Why do you want to come to Japan? The relation with what you learnt so far.
  • The necessity of studying in Japan: Which field do you want to study in Japan? What are the benefits of studying in Japan?
  • Financial sponsor: The sponsor(s) pledge to pay expenses so that you can confidently study in Japan.
  • Plan after coming to Japan: your plan after graduating from our school and after graduating from a vocational school/university in Japan.
  • Parental consent
  • Compliance with laws: comply with Japanese laws and school regulations after coming to Japan.

• Intended length of study:         April course: April ~ March of the following year                                                                                                   October course: October ~ March of the following year
• Please be sure to fill out name of the university /vocational school「希望先学校名」and name the department 「希望学科」you wish to enroll in.

2. Sponsorship Letter  (This form　「経費支弁書」must be written and sealed by the financial sponsor.)

• Explanation of your Sponsorship: Explain the relationship between you and the applicant, the reason why you become the sponsor. Please clarify that you will bear all the expenses for his/her studying in Japan and explain your ability to pay. (If you are not the applicant’s parents, please explain why his/her parents cannot sponsor him/her. Special explanation is needed if you are the applicant’s ant/uncle or other relatives. Please submit photos in which the applicant and you have taken together.)
• Living expenses: please fill in around 80,000 per month (the cost may change if you share a room with someone).
• The method of Payment: please state that when Certificate of Eligibility is issued, you will transfer tuition and admission fee into the bank account of Tokyo International Exchange College Ikebukuro. Also, please indicate the amount of money (how much for how many months) and method to pay for living costs of the applicant.

3. Other notes

• All documents must be dated within 3 months of the submission to the Bureau of Immigration Japan
• All documents written in other languages rather than Japanese must be attached with typed Japanese translations (handwritten translations are not accepted). We will provide translation services with the charge of 15,000 JPY if required （only from English to Japanese)
• Except for the original diploma, no document will be returned to the applicant.
• When the Certificate of Eligibility (CoE) is issued, we will notify the procedure for tuition payment. Regardless of the reason, if you cancel your admission after paying making the payment, we will refund the amount after deducting the selection fee (30,000 JPY), admission fee (54,000 JPY), refund charge (3,000 JPY), bank transfer fee (7,500 JPY) and translation fee (15,000 JPY, if required).
• Bankbook and other documents must be submitted in clear copies from the original. Copy date, information of the person who made copy (name and the relationship with the applicant) should be written at a blank space on the copies.
• All documents must be consistent with other related materials. If they do not match, please attach an additional explanation.
• All certificates must include the date of issue, issuing authority name, issuer’s duty, name (signature) and the address of issuing authority, telephone number and fax number (if missing, please attach an additional explanation).