QS World University Rankings 2027
#201
Founded
1882
Core campuses
6
University overview
Founded in 1882 as Tokyo Senmon Gakko, Waseda is one of Japan's largest private universities, with ten faculties across six campuses in Tokyo, Saitama and Fukuoka. Six undergraduate schools and sixteen graduate schools teach degrees entirely in English, and Japanese is not required to apply to them.
Academic scale
10
faculties
16
graduate schools teaching in English
5,282
faculty and staff
Global community
English-based degrees at six undergraduate schools and sixteen graduate schools
Core campuses
Waseda Campus
The main campus and the university's registered address. Political Science and Economics, Law, Commerce, Social Sciences and Education, their graduate schools, and Waseda Business School.
Toyama Campus
Letters, Arts and Sciences, and the School of Culture, Media and Society — so the home of JCulP and of the Global-J programme.
Nishi-Waseda Campus
Science and Engineering — the Schools and Graduate Schools of Fundamental, Creative and Advanced Science and Engineering. Also the Nishi-Waseda Building, home of the Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies.
Tokorozawa Campus
Human Sciences and Sport Sciences, undergraduate and graduate — the home of EDICS and of the English-based Sport Sciences master's. Roughly an hour from the Tokyo campuses.
Kitakyushu Campus
The Graduate School of Information, Production and Systems (IPS) — the only English-based Waseda graduate programme that is not in the Tokyo area at all, some 1,000 km away on Kyushu.
Honjo Campus
Honjo Senior High School and research facilities.
More facts
1882
founded, as Tokyo Senmon Gakko
0
Japanese required to apply to the English-based programmes
6
campuses in Tokyo, Saitama and Fukuoka
University figures verified 28 Aug 2026
Funding
11 external scholarships name this university among their designated schools.
- Nomura Foundation Scholarship Nomura Foundation
- YKK Leaders 21 Yoshida Scholarship Foundation
- Tokio Marine Kagami Scholarship for ASEAN Students Tokio Marine Kagami Memorial Foundation
- Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Memorial Foundation Scholarship Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Memorial Foundation
- Mitsubishi UFJ Foundation Scholarship Mitsubishi UFJ Foundation
- Semmoto Scholarship Frances & Sachio Semmoto Foundation
- Moriya Scholarship Moriya Foundation
- TAKASE Scholarship TAKASE Scholarship Foundation
- Sojitz Foundation Scholarship Sojitz Foundation
- M. Maeda Memorial Trust Scholarship M. Maeda Memorial Trust (Charitable Trust)
- East Asian Circle of Applied Technology (EACAT) Scholarship East Asian Circle of Applied Technology (EACAT)
This university’s own scholarships and tuition reductions are not listed here — the source excludes them. Check the university directly.
University sources (2)
- English-based degree programsWaseda University · verified 28 Aug 2026
- About Waseda — organisation and figuresWaseda University · verified 28 Aug 2026