Requirements for Progressing from Year 1 to Year 2
The credits and other conditions required to progress to the second year depend on your faculty, campus, academic year, and curriculum track.
Future Science Faculty, Tokyo Senju Campus
For the 2025 academic year, students must earn at least 28 credits by the end of Year 1 to progress to Year 2. Free elective courses are excluded. The human-sciences foundation course "Learning at Tokyo Denki University" is also excluded.
Engineering Faculty, Tokyo Senju Campus
For the 2025 and 2026 academic years, students must earn at least 24 credits in total by the end of Year 1 to progress to Year 2. Free elective courses are excluded.
Science and Engineering Faculty, Saitama Hatoyama Campus
For the 2025 academic year, students in the Life Sciences curriculum track, Information System Design curriculum track, and Electronics, Information and Biomedical Engineering curriculum track must earn at least 30 credits from courses allocated to Year 1 to progress to Year 2. For the 2026 academic year, the same minimum of 30 Year 1 credits applies to the Mechanical Engineering curriculum track and the Information System Design curriculum track. For the 2026 Information System Design curriculum track, free elective credits are not included in the progression total.
System Design Engineering Faculty, Tokyo Senju Campus
For the 2026 academic year, students must satisfy both the earned-credit requirement excluding free elective courses and the designated conditions of their department to progress from Year 1 to Year 2. The supplied information does not specify a numerical credit threshold.
Official sources
The following official Tokyo Denki University materials were used to prepare this page.
- 2026 Student Handbook — School of Engineering (2026 academic year) — PDF page 125
- 2025 Student Handbook — School of Engineering (2025 academic year) — PDF page 126
- 2025 Student Handbook — School of Future Science (2025 academic year) — PDF page 99
- 2026 Student Handbook — School of System Design and Technology (2026 academic year) — PDF page 83
- 2026 Student Handbook — School of Science and Engineering (2026 academic year) — PDF page 95
- 2026 Student Handbook — School of Science and Engineering (2026 academic year) — PDF page 110
- 2025 Student Handbook — School of Science and Engineering (2025 academic year) — PDF page 82
- 2025 Student Handbook — School of Science and Engineering (2025 academic year) — PDF page 85
- 2025 Student Handbook — School of Science and Engineering (2025 academic year) — PDF page 103
- 2025 Student Handbook — School of Science and Engineering (2025 academic year) — PDF page 129