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Credit Requirements for Progression to the Fourth Year

This page summarizes subject-category, major/minor, and course-specific credit requirements for progressing from the third year to the fourth year in the specified faculties, campuses, academic years, and curriculum tracks.

Engineering Faculty at Tokyo Senju Campus

For progression from the third year to the fourth year in the Engineering Faculty at Tokyo Senju Campus, students must have earned at least 10 credits in Human Science subjects and at least 6 credits in English subjects. The 10-credit Human Science requirement is specified for the 2025 academic year, while both requirements are specified for the 2025 and 2026 academic years.

Future Science Faculty at Tokyo Senju Campus

For progression from the third year to the fourth year in the Future Science Faculty at Tokyo Senju Campus in the 2026 academic year, students must have earned at least 10 credits in Human Sciences subjects, at least 16 credits in Natural Sciences subjects including 7 required subjects, at least 6 credits in English subjects, and at least 2 credits in Hands-on Workshop.

Liberal Arts Credit Requirement in the System Design Engineering Faculty

For advancement from the third year to the fourth year in the System Design Engineering Faculty at Tokyo Senju Campus in the 2026 academic year, students must have earned at least 36 credits from liberal arts education courses, including Human Science Courses, in the AJ course, or at least 34 credits in the AD course.

Riko Faculty: Common and Specialized Credits

For the 2026 academic year in the Riko Faculty at Saitama Hatoyama Campus, the required credits for progression depend on whether the minor course is in the student's own system or another system. The required credits in common subjects of the student's own system are 23 when the minor is in the student's own system and 19 when the minor is in another system. When the minor is in the student's own system, students must also earn 18 credits in major-course specialized subjects and 5 credits in minor-course specialized subjects. When the minor is in another system, the required credits in major-course specialized subjects are 18.

Electronic Information Engineering Course Code Requirement

For the Electronic Information Engineering curriculum track at Saitama Hatoyama Campus in the 2026 academic year, the minimum 104 credits required for progression to the fourth year must include at least 5 credits from subjects with course code E2 selected from the student's own system as the minor course.

Architecture and Urban Environment Course Combinations

For the Architecture and Urban Environment curriculum track at Saitama Hatoyama Campus in the 2026 academic year, students whose major and minor are Architecture and Urban Environment in either order must earn at least 23 credits in system common courses, including at least 14 credits in required system common courses. Students whose major is Architecture or Urban Environment and whose minor is from another system must earn at least 19 credits in system common courses, including at least 14 required credits. For both combinations, students must also earn at least 3 credits from the following four second- and third-year experimental courses: Materials Experiment, Soil Mechanics Experiment, Structural Experiment, and Hydraulics Experiment. These four courses total 4 credits.

Mechanical Engineering Course Track

For the Mechanical Engineering curriculum track at Saitama Hatoyama Campus in the 2025 and 2026 academic years, the progression requirements specify minimum credits for individual subject categories, including Human Formation or Human Science subjects, English, Engineering Ethics, Mathematics, Natural Science and Technology, Information, system common courses, and course-specialized subjects. The specific minimum for each category is not provided in the supplied information.

Optional Elective Subjects

For progression from the third year to the fourth year in the Riko Faculty at Saitama Hatoyama Campus in the 2026 academic year, the required number of credits in optional elective subjects is 0. This also applies to the Science curriculum track. The graduation requirement for optional elective subjects is 2 credits, but the progression requirement is 0 credits.

Life Science Course Track

For the Life Science curriculum track at Saitama Hatoyama Campus in the 2025 academic year, the required credits for progression to the fourth year are 6 credits in English and 12 credits in Human Formation.

Information System Design Course Track

For the Information System Design curriculum track at Saitama Hatoyama Campus in the 2026 academic year, students must earn at least 12 credits in Human Sciences subjects for progression from the third year to the fourth year. The graduation requirement for the same subject category is 16 credits.

Official sources

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