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Routes to a Doctoral Degree

A doctoral degree may be awarded through completion of the doctoral course or, in certain cases, through dissertation review and confirmation of academic ability.

Doctoral-course completion route

For the 2026 academic year, a doctoral degree is awarded to a person who completes the doctoral course in accordance with the University Graduate School Regulations.

Dissertation-based route without doctoral-course completion

A doctoral degree may also be awarded to a person who is not a doctoral-course graduate if they submit a doctoral dissertation to the University, pass the dissertation review and confirmation of academic ability, and are recognized as equal or superior in character and academic ability to a person who has been enrolled in the latter stage of the doctoral program for the prescribed period and earned at least the prescribed credits in the prescribed major subjects.

Official sources

The following official Tokyo Denki University materials were used to prepare this page.