When a Course Is Recorded as Abandoned
Find out when a course may be recorded as abandoned and how the mark affects your result, grade points, and earned credits.
Tokyo Senju Campus
For the 2026 academic year in the Faculty of System Design and Technology, a course may receive the mark "-" when you are considered to have abandoned it during the teaching period. This can include prolonged absence or not taking the academic examination. The mark means abandoned, is failing, and does not earn credits. Insufficient attendance may also be treated as abandonment.
For the 2025 academic year in the Faculty of Engineering, if the instructor determines that your attendance is poor and that you abandoned the course partway through, your grade is recorded as "-" (abandoned).
For the 2025 academic year in the Faculty of Future Science, the same attendance-based determination applies: if the instructor judges that poor attendance means you abandoned the course partway through, the grade is recorded as "-" (abandoned).
Saitama Hatoyama Campus
In the Faculty of Science and Technology, a withdrawn or abandoned course is recorded with the grade "-". The grade point is 0, and the result is fail. This applies to the 2025 and 2026 academic years covered by the supplied information.
Official sources
The following official Tokyo Denki University materials were used to prepare this page.
- 2025 Student Handbook — School of Engineering (2025 academic year) — PDF page 110
- 2025 Student Handbook — School of Future Science (2025 academic year) — PDF page 85
- 2026 Student Handbook — School of System Design and Technology (2026 academic year) — PDF page 71
- 2026 Student Handbook — School of System Design and Technology (2026 academic year) — PDF page 79
- 2026 Student Handbook — School of Science and Engineering (2026 academic year) — PDF page 169
- 2025 Student Handbook — School of Science and Engineering (2025 academic year) — PDF page 177