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Hosei University

Tokyo, Japan
Founded 1880
International 1,201
Core campuses 3

University overview

Hosei is a large private university of about 31,000 students across three Tokyo campuses. Six routes can be completed entirely in English: the Faculty of Global and Interdisciplinary Studies, the Global Business Program, SCOPE and IGESS at undergraduate level, and at graduate level the Global MBA and the Institute of Integrated Science and Technology, whose master's course spans seven majors. Most English-taught undergraduate programmes pay about ¥137,000 a year more than the Japanese-taught cohort in the same faculty.

Academic scale

31,251 students as of 1 May 2026 — 29,222 undergraduate, 1,829 graduate and 200 professional

Global community

1,201 international students on a student visa as of 1 May 2026 — 758 undergraduate, 354 master's, 69 doctoral and 20 professional
Hosei publishes three different international-student counts on three different bases; the figure above counts only those on the 「留学」 student visa.

Three core campuses

Ichigaya Campus The central Tokyo campus and Hosei's main site, where GIS, the Global Business Program and SCOPE are taught, along with the Global MBA in the Shin-Hitokuchizaka building.
Tama Campus A large suburban campus in Machida, on the Tokyo/Kanagawa border, and the home of IGESS — the one English-taught undergraduate route not taught at Ichigaya.
Koganei Campus The science and engineering campus in western Tokyo, where the Institute of Integrated Science and Technology master's majors are based.

More facts

¥968,000 a year for GBP, SCOPE and IGESS — ¥137,000 more than the ¥831,000 paid by the Japanese-taught cohort in the same faculty, which is about ¥548,000 over a four-year degree
¥1,097,000 a year for GIS, whose fee is the same in both the Japanese and English fee tables; first-year total ¥1,582,000
¥240,000 one-off admission fee, the same across every undergraduate faculty and both intakes
The English-taught premium appears nowhere in English — it falls out of a separate autumn-entry fee table published only in Japanese.
University figures verified 8 Sep 2026

Funding

No external scholarship in our catalogue names this university specifically. Many awards are open regardless of where you study — browse all scholarships for Japan.

University sources (4)