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Q: Transferring from an overseas junior college is permitted. However, what type of institution qualifies as a "foreign junior college"?
A: As indicated in the notes of the Enforcement Regulations dated March 30, 2005 (16 Bunkako No. 1035) (p. 65), a "foreign university, graduate school, or foreign junior college" under the School Education Act refers to an institution that meets all of the following requirements.
- It is an educational institution that operates within a foreign school education system.
- It has the authority to award degrees or titles under the foreign school education system to its graduates.
- If accreditation through the evaluation system is required to be recognized as a university, graduate school, or junior college in a foreign country, both institutionally and socially, the institution must have received that accreditation.
Please check with the respective embassy in Japan to determine whether the student interested in transferring is a graduate of a "foreign junior college," considering the above points.
(The content of this Q&A is quoted from the University Admission Qualifications Guide ver.2 written by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. NIC-Japan produced this English translation.)