Foreign students are required to take a qualifying examination of Japanese as well. GSIS is open to a limited number of students who are engaged in full time employment, allowing them to follow master's or doctoral courses while keeping their positions. In order to improve access to this journal for external authors, some of the members of advisory and editorial boards are invited from outside institutions. The master's degree requires a minimum of 30 approved credits, but students can freely select courses from a wide variety of subjects. A student can take a maximum of 10 credits by attending lectures offered by departments other than his or her chosen department.
Students can pursue research in disciplines different than their undergraduate major.
The entrance examination to GSIS permits students to select the subject area in which they majored at undergraduate level. As previously mentioned, candidates for the master's degree are required to complete at least 30 graduate credits of course work. The remaining 18 or more credits are to be selected from the following list. I and II are offered by various faculty members and are intended to provide perspectives of the Information Sciences with special emphasis on interdisciplinary approaches.