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Soka University

Hachioji, Tokyo, Japan
Founded 1971
International 656
Core campuses 1

University overview

Soka University is a private university on a single campus in Hachioji, western Tokyo, with about 5,900 students of whom 656 are international, from 60 countries. Its English-taught study runs through the Faculty of International Liberal Arts at undergraduate level — the only department with a curriculum taught entirely in English — and at graduate level through international peace studies, TESOL, international business studies and science and engineering. Almost all student housing is single-sex, and the published hall fee already includes utilities.

Academic scale

5,922 students as of 1 May 2026 — 5,484 undergraduate and 438 postgraduate

Global community

656 international students from 60 countries and regions, as of 1 May 2026
Soka has taught in English since 2014 through its Faculty of International Liberal Arts, and its graduate programmes in peace studies, TESOL, business and engineering.

Core campuses

Hachioji Campus Soka's only campus. Everything is here — every faculty and graduate school, the student halls, the Distance Learning Division and Soka Women's College — on a hillside site in western Tokyo.

More facts

¥1,210,000 a year for the Faculty of International Liberal Arts — the rate charged now, including the September 2026 intake
A tuition revision published on 27 August 2026 raises the liberal arts rate to ¥1,295,000, but it applies to students entering in AY2027 and later, not to current entrants.
¥200,000 one-off admission fee. Graduate tuition of ¥650,000 and ¥510,000 was not revised and holds through AY2027.
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 (5)