Admissions

Information about a brochure and entrance examination of the College of Policy and Planning Sciences

Brochure and leaflet of the College of Policy and Planning Sciences
You may download a brochure, leaflet and poster of the College of Policy and Planning Sciences. For information about the guidelines for applicants for 2010, please refer to the entrance examination for cluster of colleges of the AC admission center (in Japanese)..

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Admissions

As of April 2007, the College of Policy and Planning Sciences has reorganized and migrated from the Third Cluster of Colleges to the School of Science and Engineering. Click here for the details.

The College of Policy and Planning Sciences is a unique educational organization that cultivates human resources who can use technological methods to analyze social concerns to come up with solutions to those problems.

In the modern society, necessities of scientific solutions to the decision-making process of political measures and plans are highly-publicized in both public sectors (the government and local government) and private sectors (private companies). It is because various social concerns have become complicated and interdependence has increased, causing difficulties to solve them within the traditional theories of individual disciplinary domain.

こThe goal of the College of Policy and Planning Sciences is to cultivate human resources with problem-solving skills as well as decision-making abilities to correspond to these problems.

University orientation session

The College of Policy and Planning Sciences offers a brief orientation session every year. For the schedule and application information, please refer to the "university orientation session and experimental learning".

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Entrance examination information

The College of Policy and Planning Sciences offers the educational contents suitable for both students of art courses and the science courses. It is especially recommended for those who are interested in new interdisciplinary area specializing in technological approaches to study the future social concerns. For regular students, there are four admission methods to enroll in the College of Policy and Planning Sciences (120-seat) as described below, including the admission center entrance examination, admission by recommendation, preceding term academic achievement test and later term academic achievement test.

The preceding term academic achievement test mainly focuses on the result of individual test targeting students of science courses and the later term academic achievement test mainly targets students of art courses while the individual test focuses on the result of short essay and the National Center Test for University Admissions. The examination subjects for the National Center Test for University Admissions include five subject areas and seven subjects (one subject of Civics and two subjects of Science) for the preceding term and six subject areas and seven subjects (two subjects of Civics and one subject for Science). (For additional information, please refer to the Information on entrance examination for the Cluster and College.)

Admission Center Entrance Examination
Month of Examination Subjects Openings
October Interview and oral examination 5 people
Admission by Recommendation
Month of Examination Subjects Openings
November Short essay and interview 20 people
Preceding Term Academic Achievement Test
  Month of Examination Subjects Openings
National Center Test
for University Admissions		 January
  • ・ Japanese literature [Japanese literature]
  • ・ Geography and History [Candidate may select one subject from World History A, World History B, Japanese History A, Japanese History B, Geography A and Geography B] and one subject from Civics [Contemporary social studies, Ethics and Politics and Economy]
  • ・ Mathematics [Mathematics I and Mathematics II] and [Candidate may select one subject from Mathematics II, Mathematics B, Basic industrial mathematics/science, Bookkeeping/Accounting and Basic information technology]
  • ・ Science [Candidate may select two subjects from General Science A, General Science B, Physics I, Chemistry I, Biology I and Earth science I]
  • ・ Foreign languages [Candidate may select one subject from English (including listening test), German, French, Chinese and Korean.

(Five subject areas and seven subjects)

 70 people
Individual Academic Achievement Test February
  • ・ Foreign languages [candidate may select one subject in advance from English II including reading and writing, German and French]
  • ・ Mathematics [Mathematics II, Mathematics III, Mathematics B and Mathematics C]
Later Term Academic Achievement Test
  Month of Examination Subjects Openings
National Center Test
for University Admissions		 January
  • ・ Japanese literature [Japanese literature]
  • ・ Geography and History [Candidate may select one subject from World History A, World History B, Japanese History A, Japanese History B, Geography A and Geography B]
  • ・ Civics [Candidate may select one subject from Contemporary social studies, Ethics and Politics and Economy]
  • ・ Mathematics [Mathematics I and Mathematics II] and [Candidate may select one subject from Mathematics II, Mathematics B, Basic industrial mathematics/science, Bookkeeping/Accounting and Basic information technology]
  • ・ Science [Candidate may select one subject from General Science A, General Science B, Physics I, Chemistry I, Biology I and Earth science I]
  • ・ Foreign languages [Candidate may select one subject from English (including listening test), German, French, Chinese and Korean

(Six subject areas and seven subjects)

 25 people
Individual Academic Achievement Test March
Short essay
(Candidates are given with a diagram excerpted from a document related to modern social concerns and movement along with an English article to answer questions related to the matter in an essay style, aiming to observe comprehensive abilities in English as well as logical analytical abilities.)
Other

Other than above, there are privately funded foreign student examination, government-sponsored foreign student examination and semester admission by recommendation for returned students from foreign countries (a few seats), as well as a transfer system for existing students of sophomore and above, junior college graduates (with a graduation letter) and vocational school graduates (with a graduation letter).

For details, please contact us directly.

College of Policy and Planning Sciences, School of Science and Engineering, University of Tsukuba
1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki-ken, 305-8577 Japan
Entrance Examination, Academic Second Division, Academic Department
Telephone： 029-853-2208 / 2209
Office of director of College of Policy and Planning Sciences, School of Science and Engineering
Telephone： 029-853-4961