International Student Entrance Examinations
Please see the Application Guidebook for the current academic year.
Student Capacity
Undergraduate
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The Faculty of Commercial Sciences
|
several students |
|---|---|
The Faculty of Humanities and Human Sciences
|
several students |
The Faculty of Law
|
several students |
The Faculty of Economic Sciences
|
several students |
The Faculty of Human Environmental Studies
|
several students |
The Faculty of Health Sciences
|
several students |
Faculty of Global and Community Studies
|
several students |
Application Period
From Dec 13 (Wed) to Dec 27 (Wed), 2023 (Applications must be received by the final date.)
Examination Date
Jan 6 (Sat), 2024
Announcement of Results
Jan 11 (Thu), 2024
Examination Subjects
Examination Subject
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|
The subjects of examination |
|
|---|---|
The Faculty of Commercial Sciences
|
essay (100 points) Examination for Japanese University Admission for International Students (EJU)'Japanese' (100 points *)and 'Japan and the World' (50 points ***) Personal interview (50 points) |
The Faculty of Humanities and Human Sciences
|
Examination for Japanese University Admission for International Students (EJU)'Japanese' (150 points **)and 'Japan and the World' (50 points ***) Personal interview (200 points ****) |
The Faculty of Law
|
essay (100 points) Examination for Japanese University Admission for International Students (EJU)'Japanese' (100 points *)and 'Japan and the World' (50 points ***) Personal interview |
The Faculty of Economic Sciences
|
essay (100 points) Examination for Japanese University Admission for International Students (EJU)'Japanese' (100 points *) Personal interview (50 points) The application documents (50 points) |
The Faculty of Human Environmental Studies
|
Essay (100 points) Examination for Japanese University Admission for International Students (EJU) 'Japanese' (100 points*) The application documents and personal interview (100 points) |
The Faculty of Health Sciences
|
Examination for Japanese University Admission for International Students (EJU) 'Japanese' (150 points**) and 'Japan and the World' (50 points***) Personal interview (200 points****) |
The Faculty of Global and Community Studies
|
Essay (100 points) Examination for Japanese University Admission for International Students (EJU) 'Japanese' (100 points*) Personal interview (100 points) The application documents (50 points) |
* For international students applying to the Faculty of Commercial Sciences, the Faculty of Law, the Faculty of Economic Sciences, the Faculty of Human Environmental Studies, and the Faculty of Global and Community Studies, Hiroshima Shudo University does not conduct its own Japanese language proficiency tests. Instead, the Japanese language proficiency of these students is evaluated based on the sum of the scores they obtained on the Reading Comprehension, Listening Comprehension, and Listening–Reading Comprehension sections of the "Japanese as a Foreign Language" test provided by the EJU (Examination for Japanese University Admission for International Students) program (a standardized testing program offered by JASSO); for evaluations conducted by the University, the sum of the original scores earned on these test sections (0–400 scale) will be converted to a scale of 0–100.
** For international students applying to the Faculty of Humanities and Human Sciences and the Faculty of Health Sciences, Hiroshima Shudo University does not conduct its own Japanese language proficiency tests. Instead, the Japanese language proficiency of these students is evaluated based on the sum of the scores they earned on all sections of the "Japanese as a Foreign Language" test provided by JASSO's EJU program: (a) their total scores on the Reading Comprehension, Listening Comprehension, and Listening–Reading Comprehension sections, which range from 0–100 (original total scores on these sections (0–400 scale) will be converted to a 0–100 scale) + (b) their scores on the Writing section, which range from 0–50.
*** For international students applying to the Faculty of Commercial Sciences, the Faculty of Humanities and Human Sciences, the Faculty of Law, and the Faculty of Health Sciences, Hiroshima Shudo University does not conduct its own tests that measure fundamental and analytical reasoning skills associated with a liberal arts education. Instead, such liberal arts skills of these students are evaluated based on their total scores on the "Japan and the World" test provided by JASSO's EJU program; for evaluations conducted by the University, original scores earned on this test (0–200 scale) are converted to a scale of 0–50.
**** Questions asked at an interview will include those intended to evaluate the Japanese reading comprehension skills of each student.
International student admission test statistics（As of 2023)
Undergraduate
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| Faculty | Number of recruitment |
Number of applicants |
Number of examinees |
Number of successful candidates |
Acceptance ratio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Faculty of Commercial Sciences |
several students |
1 | 1 | 1 | 1.0 |
| The Faculty of Humanities and Human Sciences |
several students |
1 | 1 | 0 | 0.0 |
| The Faculty of Law | several students |
0 | 0 | 0 | - |
| The Faculty of Economic Sciences | several students |
1 | 1 | 1 | 1.0 |
| The Faculty of Human Environmental Studies | several students |
1 | 1 | 1 | 1.0 |
| The Faculty of Health Sciences | several students |
1 | 1 | 1 | 1.0 |
| The Faculty of Global and Community Studies | several students |
3 | 3 | 3 | 1.0 |
| Grand total | 8 | 8 | 7 | 0.9 |