IAMAS

Admission Capacity

20 people (graduate course)

Overview and Varieties of Entrance Exam

Our school has three kinds of entrance exam: there is a Commendation Entrance Exam and a General Entrance Exam for our two-year graduate program as well as a separate exam for our one-year Instensive Course for Persons with Work Experience. Here, the Intensive Course for Persons with Work Experience is geared towards people engaged in groundbreaking research or development and those how have made achievements in their careers or in the creation of artistic or technological works. In this course, a curriculum that usually takes two years is condensed to one year under the condition that students proceed with their research based on these previous accomplishments.

Type of Exam Commendation General Intensive Course
Course Graduate (two-year) Graduate (two-year) Graduate (one-year)
Test Criteria Review of appliant documents, Interview Review of appliant documents, essay test Review of appliant documents, Interview
Test date June 26, 2021 First: October 9, 2021
Second: February 5, 2022
First: June 26, 2021
Second: October 9, 2021
Third: February 5, 2022

Who is Eligible to Apply?

The different tests have different requirements for who is eligible; please check the Admissions Outline for more information. For the General Entrance Exam and the exam for the Intensive Course for Persons with Work Experience, applicants are not required to have a bachelor's degree to take the exam if their qualifications have been approved through a prior evaluation.

2021 Entrance Exam Schedule

Type of Examination 2022 Commendation Entrance Examination
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2022 First Round Intensive Course for Persons with Work Experience Entrance Examination
2022 First Round Entrance Examination
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2022 Second Round Intensive Course for Persons with Work Experience Entrance Examination
2022 Second Round Entrance Examination
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2022 Third Round Intensive Course for Persons with Work Experience Entrance Examination
Submission Period of Eligibility Evaluation April 23 –
April 30,2021
[General]
August 26 -
September 1, 2021
[Intensive Course]
August 5 -
August 11, 2021
[General]
December 17 -
December 24, 2021
[Intensive Course]
November 17 -
November 24, 2021
Submission Period for Applications June 4 -
June 11, 2021
September 17 -
September 24, 2021
January 14 -
January 21, 2022
Entrance Examination June 26, 2021 October 9, 2021 February 5, 2022
Announcement of Results July 9, 2021 October 15, 2021 February 10, 2022
Admission Paperwork Deadline August 2, 2021 November 5, 2021 March 1, 2022

Testing Fee

30,000 yen

Application Guidelines

Commendation Entrance

General Entrance

Intensive Course for Persons with Work Experience

Entrance exam reference documents (past questions)

If you need a print copy of these documents, come by the school or contact us using the form below. When writing a request, let us know where to send the documents: your postal code, address, name, and telephone number. The cost of the postage will be charged to the recipient.

Send the application documents to us via mail by the submission deadline. When applying from overseas, please contact our school's Academic Office beforehand.
※The Admission Guidlines for the Intensive Course for Persons with Work Experience is only available for download.

Document Request Form

School Information Sessions

Before the entrance exam period begins, IAMAS holds information sessions and an open house. At the information sessions, people considering applying to IAMAS can talk to faculty members one-on-one about research and student life at our school. The Open House is held in the IAMAS school building, and features a school tour, lectures by faculty members, and exhibitions of work and reserach. If you are interested, we hope to see you there!

Open House on the web About the Information Sessions
School Information Sessions

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