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University of Tsukuba

Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
#351 QS World University Rankings 2027

Campus life

Student accommodation

3,517 rooms in 65 residence-hall buildings across four areas of the Tsukuba Campus — Ichinoya, Hirasuna, Oikoshi and Kasuga. Tsukuba states these are the largest student residence halls of any national university in Japan.
¥15,380 a month for a standard single room of about 10 m² at Ichinoya, Hirasuna or Oikoshi — ¥19,410 renovated. A ¥30,000 deposit on moving in; utilities are metered and billed on top.
¥35,800 a month in Global Village — 500 rooms in share-house units of five, each with a private room and a shared kitchen and living room. Deliberately mixed Japanese and international: 212 and 192 residents on 1 October 2025.
¥23,711 a month in Kasuga Residence Hall Building 3, which Tsukuba calls the Kasuga International Student Building — 18 m² singles with their own bath and cooking facilities, plus four couple and family rooms.
¥33,826 a month for a family room at Ichinoya. There are 120 of them and 52 were occupied by international students on 1 October 2025. Non-degree research, exchange and auditing students may not apply for one.
A residence-fee rise announced for 1 April 2026 was postponed on 26 March 2026 to a date the university has not yet set. The rents above are the ones still being charged.
¥30,000-50,000 a month for a private flat in Tsukuba city with kitchen, bath and toilet — plus deposit and key money of one to two months each, agency commission, fire insurance and a guarantor.
A little over 40% of new entrants move into a hall. There is no published application calendar: you apply inside the web enrolment procedure after passing the entrance examination, and a lottery is run if applications exceed places.
Housing information

Campuses and infrastructure

All University of Tsukuba campuses. Where a programme is taught at a specific campus, its own page says so.

Tsukuba Campus
Tsukuba Campus

Almost the whole university, on one very large site 50 km north-east of Tokyo, divided into five named areas: Central (teaching buildings, Central Library), South (arts and sport), West (medicine and the hospital), North and Kasuga. · 1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8577, Japan

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Tokyo Campus (Otsuka)
Tokyo Campus (Otsuka)

The evening and weekend graduate campus for working professionals, five minutes from Myogadani Station. Home of the Degree Programs in Business Sciences, the Law School, and the MBA Program in International Business taught in English. · 3-29-1 Otsuka, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 112-0012, Japan

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University of Tsukuba, Malaysia (UTMy)

Opened on 1 September 2024 inside the University of Malaya — the first degree-awarding faculty a Japanese university has established overseas. It houses the School of Transdisciplinary Science and Design. · Wisma R&D, Universiti Malaya, Jalan Pantai Baharu, 59100 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Japan

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