Teaching-Licence Credit Requirements

Credit requirements for junior-high and high-school teaching licences differ by campus and faculty. The applicable totals and subject categories are listed below.

Saitama Hatoyama Campus: Science and Engineering Faculty

For the 2026 academic year, the subtotal in statutory column 5 is 6 credits for a junior-high teaching licence and 4 credits for a high-school teaching licence. The listed total across columns 3 to 5 is 29 credits for a junior-high licence and 25 credits for a high-school licence.

Tokyo Senju Campus: Faculty of Engineering

For the 2026 academic year, the required credits by category are as follows. For subjects prescribed under Article 66-6 of the Enforcement Regulations, 2 credits are required for both junior-high and high-school licences. For subjects related to the teaching subject and teaching methods, the requirements are 20 subject credits and 8 teaching-methods credits for a junior-high licence, and 30 subject credits and 4 teaching-methods credits for a high-school licence. For subjects concerning the basic understanding of education and related areas, the requirement is 29 credits for a junior-high licence and 25 credits for a high-school licence. For subjects independently established by the university, the requirement is 3 credits for a junior-high licence and 5 credits, shown in parentheses in the source table, for a high-school licence.

Official sources

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