page_title: Sundai Preparatory School
section_title: Sundai Preparatory School
hierarchical_section_title: Sundai Preparatory School / Campuses / Sundai Preparatory School
caption_attribution_description: English: Sundai Preparatory School 1st Bldg (Kanda-Surugadai, Tokyo, Japan) 日本語: 駿台予備学校 1号館（東京都千代田区神田駿河台2-12）
context_page_description: Sundai Preparatory School is the oldest extracurricular college-preparatory school in Japan. It was founded in 1918 by Toshiharu Yamazaki, a Japanese English Literature scholar and a graduate of Amherst College, Harvard College, and Yale University. Along with Kawai-juku and Yoyogi Seminar, it is one of the three largest groups of preparatory schools. Sundai Preparatory School is regularly ranked as first by the number of acceptances to the University of Tokyo and Kyoto University, both considered the most competitive universities in Japan. Admission is competitive, and students must receive satisfactory grades in national examinations to enroll.
context_section_description: Headquarters (Ochanomizu,Tokyo)
  1st building
  2nd building
  3rd building
  8th building
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Nagoya
  Yokohama
  Sapporo
  Fukuoka
  Kobe
  Hamamatsu
  Sendai
  Hiroshima
caption: 1st Building
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