Applicants in Schedule A do not need to submit an English proficiency score report; they can take the TOEFL ITP on campus.
If you take the entrance examinations on Schedule B, you are required to submit an English proficiency score report. If you are not able to submit the score in time, you may take the entrance exams in Schedule A, six months later. This is non-negotiable.
English proficiency score submission is not accepted for Schedule A. Only TOEFL iBT is accepted for Schedule B. Note that TOEFL iBT Home Edition is not accepted.
Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, the University of Tokyo, has a rule about the valid date of English scores. We accept English scores if
All English test organizations say their scores are valid for two years. We, the University of Tokyo, do not have a method to verify the autheticity of your score if the score was taken older than this; therefore we do not accept scores older than these dates.
Yes, it is required; for the Schedule B entrance examination, please submit a request to ETS to send it (submit the codes) after September and by the application deadline.
Please ask ETS to send your score to Graduate School of Frontier Science, UTokyo by the application deadline. If you do so, the score certificate will reach us before we actually need it.
You must have asked ETS to send your TOEFL score to Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, UTokyo by the application deadline. Then, your score must reach us by the exam dates.
If you have some issue with submitting TOEIC scores and you are afraid if your score reach us by the deadline, please explain your situation in the note in the online application system.
We do not disclose how we evaluate individual applicants in the first-stage screening based on the submitted documents.
You can ask GSFS to disclose your raw scores a few weeks after we officially announce the list of accepted applicants.
We do not disclose the minimum TOEFL score.
The quota is determined by MEXT, and we usually cannot accept significantly more students than the quota. This implies that if too many applicants take higher scores than you, you would fail even if you take a high score. Therefore, we cannot guarantee anything based on the absolute score.
At least, we expect that you are at the university level of proficiency.
If you ask ETS to send your Official Score Reports to us, GSFS, that will definitely reach by the time we actually need it. If you have a particular situation in which you cannot send TOEIC Official Score Certificate early, drop us a line at the note in the online application system.
You need to submit a PAPER official score certificate issued by individual English proficiency test organizations. We accept only original certificates, so please do not send us a photocopy. Please send the (counterfait-proof) original official paper certificate to us. Please note that you also need to submit an electronic copy online.
We are aware that ETS can send your score to us via an electronic method. You may not have to send us a paper certificate in the future. However, we found that we need to newly develop a computer system to accept such electronic scores. At this moment, we are not sure if our development completes by the exam date. Please make sure you ask ETS to send a paper official score certificate by the application deadline so that our paper-based workflow works.
We may consider Speaking and Writing.
English test organizations provide different exams that measure your English skills in different aspects in different ways. Some tests measure Speaking and Writing, while some do not. Therefore, comparing scores from different organizations inherently involves difficult issues. What we can say is that we do not automatically ignore scores of Speaking and Writing.
How we handle your English score is not disclosed.
However, when more than one score is submitted, we will select the one that is most advantageous to the applicant and use it as the score for the test. so please submit all your scores if you have any concerns. Please note that we do not use MyBest Score of TOEFL.
If there is no other way for you, go ahead; we will just ignore it. To avoid confusion, please do not send official certificates other than those submitted as web submission scores where possible.
You can submit (as a pdf file) the test taker report that you downloaded from the ETS website. Initially, by the application deadline, we require only the web submission score. However, an Official Score Reports with the exact same score must be sent from ETS directly to the Graduate School of Frontier Sciences.
If the official certificate with the exact same score is not sent to the Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, the acceptance may be cancelled or the applicant may be dismissed. Please note that this may lead to cancellation of enrollment or other actions.
Candidates who have graduated from (or will have graduated from) the master course in the Department of Computational Biology and Medical Sciences in the Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, the University of Tokyo are exempted from submitting an English scores. Graduates of the pre-merger Medical Genomics dept or Computational Biology dept are also eligible for the exemption.
Applicants for the Biomedical Innovation Course who have completed (or will have completed) a master course at the University of Tokyo are also exempted from submitting English scores.
For details, please refer to Guidelines for Applicants.
No exemption. All applicants including those residing in English-speaking countries, must submit their English scores.