Notice Regarding Foreign Language (English) Examinations for Entrance
to the Master’s Program※This is the entrance examination information for admission in April 2025.
Foreign language (English) written examination is not administered by the University of Tokyo to applicants for theMaster’s Program, Graduate School of Medicine, the University of Tokyo. In lieu of those examinations, applicants
are required to submit an official report of their TOEFL or IELTS scores as below. As written in the NOTES,TOEFL or IELTS score submission may be exempted. Those who wish to be exempted from submitting scoresshould contact administrative staff via email as specified (in.m@gs.mail.u-tokyo.ac.jp).

1. TOEFL score1.

Acceptable

TOEFL-iBT、TOEFL iBT® Home Edition

TOEFL Score
2.

Period of Validity

A TOEFL score will be valid only if the test was administered after August 1, 2022.

3.

Submission

Together with the other application documents, submit following documents:

Process (Step1):- A copy of the “Test Taker Score Report” that was sent to the examinee by ETS (Educational“Test Taker Score Testing Service).

4.

Report(Examinee- A screen copy of application result of “Institutional Score Report” that shows the application

Score Report)”

date for ETS

Submission

Please make a request to the ETS to forward an “Institutional Score Report” to “the University ofProcess (Step2):

Tokyo Faculty of Medicine” with the following information.

“InstitutionalDI (Designated Institution) Code: 8426

Score Report”

Division: Graduate Organization
Department: 42(Medicine)-

When making the request, do not use “University of Tokyo” or another DI code for the othergraduate schools of The University of Tokyo.

-The “Institutional Score Report” will be accepted even if it arrives after the application
deadline, as long as the request has been made prior to the application. If multiple“Institutional Score Report” arrive at the Graduate Students Affairs Section, the same scoreas the “Test Taker Score Report” will be accepted.

5.

Cautions

For details, please refer to the TOEFL website https://www.ets.org/jp/toefl/.

Please note that in the situations described below, reports of TOEFL scores will NOT be accepted.
In those situations, it will be assumed that the applicant has chosen not to take the foreign language(English) examination.
(1)

The “Institutional Score Report” from ETS is not received.

(2)

The scores and the dates of the examination on the copy of the “Test Taker Score Report”
are not identical with those on the “Institutional Score Report”.

(3)The official score is not from a test administered during the time period prescribed in #2
above (Period of Validity).

(4)

Scores are submitted by methods other than those described in #1 and #2 above, or scores
are submitted by illicit means.

2. IELTS score1.

Acceptable

IELTS

An acceptable score is a Test Report From on the IELTS (Academic Module) only. Test Report

Score

Form of IELTS (General Training Module) is NOT acceptable.

2.

Period of Validity

A IELTS score will be valid only if the test was administered after August 1, 2022.

3.

Submission Process

Together with the other application documents, submit a copy of the “Test Report Form” for(Step1): Copy ofthe IELTS (Academic Module) that was forwarded to the examinee by the IELTS.

“Test Report Form”
4.

Submission Process

Please make a request to the IELTS office to forward an “Test Report Form” to the following(Step1):address.

Original“TestGraduate Student Affairs Section,

Report Form”

Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo
7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan-The “Test Report Form” forwarded from the IELTS office will be accepted even if itarrives after the application deadline, as long as the request has been made prior to theapplication.

If multiple “Test Report Form” arrive at the Graduate Students Affairs

Section from the IELTS, the same score as the “Test Report Form” submitted by examinee
will be accepted.
5.

Cautions

For details, please refer to the IELTS website http://www.eiken.or.jp/ielts/.

Please note that in the situations described below, reports of IELTS scores will NOT beaccepted. In those situations, it will be assumed that the applicant has chosen not to take theforeign language (English) examination.
(1)

The “Test Report Form” from the IELTS office is not received.

(2)

The scores and the dates of the examination on the copy of the “Test Report Form” arenot identical with those on the original “Test Report Form”.

(3)

The “Test Report Form” is not from a test administered during the time period prescribedin #2 above (Period of Validity).

(4)

Scores are submitted by methods other than those described in #1 and #2 above, or scores
are submitted by illicit means.

3. NOTESTOEFL or IELTS score submission may be exempted if any of the following (1) or (2) apply.
(1) An applicant who earned or is expected to earn a bachelor’s degree, or the international equivalent thereof,
from an institution, where the primary language of the entire institution (not only the applicant’s department
or program) is English, in Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, the U.K. or the U.S.A.
(2) An applicant who earned or is expected to earn a bachelor’s degree, or the international equivalent
thereof, from an institution, where the primary language of the entire institution (not only the applicant’sdepartment or program) is English in countries other than Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, theU.K. or the U.S.A. If an applicant falls into this category, he/she is required to send a certificate ofmedium of instruction issued by the institution by mail.
※ Both (1) and (2) are limited to bachelor’s program only. NOT apply to master's and doctoral programs.
※ Those who wish to be exempted from submitting scores should contact administrative staff (email:in.m@gs.mail.u-tokyo.ac.jp) by the end of May 2024.