How Different Credits Count Toward Graduation

This page explains which discretionary and free-subject credits count toward graduation, the number of discretionary credits listed, and the 60-credit limit for certain remote-taught courses.

Credits Selected and Earned at Your Discretion

For the 2025 academic year at Tokyo Senju Campus in the Faculty of Systems Design and Technology, credits selected and earned at your discretion include: credits earned through the student exchange credit-transfer course-taking system administered by the Tokyo Science and Technology Universities; common education subjects in the human sciences, engineering fundamentals, and English; specialized education credits earned beyond the required graduation credits; engineering fundamentals credits earned beyond the required credits for department-designated subjects; and credits earned from subjects offered by another faculty or department, excluding free subjects. The graduation-requirements table lists 4 credits for subjects selected and earned at your discretion.

Free Subjects and Graduation Credits

Free elective subjects are not included in the credits required for graduation shown in the graduation-requirements table. This applies to the 2026 academic year at Tokyo Senju Campus in the Faculty of Future Science and to the 2025 academic year at Tokyo Senju Campus in the Faculty of Systems Design and Technology.

Limit on Certain Remote-Taught Courses

For required or elective courses marked OP or M in the remote-teaching column, no more than 60 credits in total may be included in graduation requirements. This rule applies to the 2026 academic year at Saitama Hatoyama Campus in the Faculty of Science and Technology.

Official sources

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