Admission

Entering students should have an advanced level competency in Japanese language and are expected to have completed a Bachelor of Arts degree in Japanese (or a related field) before matriculation with an undergraduate cumulative grade point average of at least 3.200 in the major and 3.000 overall (on a 4.000 scale). Applicants are required to have taken the Graduate Record Examination before applying, or to take it at the earliest opportunity thereafter. Non-native speakers of English who are not U.S. citizens are required to take the Test of English as a Foreign Language.