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How Prior Learning and Credits Are Recognized

This page explains how prior courses may be recognized, including course matching, comprehensive recognition, credit values, assigned-year rules, and eligibility limits.

Recognition rules for the 2026 Faculty of Engineering

For liberal-education courses in the human-sciences areas of engineering ethics and culture and global culture, prior courses are recognized by matching them to specific courses. Mathematics, information, natural-science technology, hands-on workshops, and English courses are also recognized by course-to-course correspondence. Other human-sciences course areas are recognized comprehensively. As a general rule, courses taken at a college of technology are limited to fourth- or fifth-year courses. Credits earned at a university or junior college before admission, including credits earned as a non-degree course student, may be treated as credits earned through courses at Tokyo Denki University when the faculty council considers them educationally beneficial.

Recognition rules for the 2026 Faculty of System Design

For new entrants, general-education and specialized-education courses are recognized using the credit value assigned by the programme the student enters. General-education and specialized-education courses are recognized regardless of the year level assigned to the course. Engineering ethics and culture, global culture, mathematics, information, natural-science technology, and hands-on workshops are recognized by matching them to specific courses. English courses are also recognized by course-to-course correspondence. Other human-sciences fields are recognized comprehensively. If a specialized course cannot be matched to a course, it may be recognized comprehensively based on a decision by the department the student enters.

Recognition rules for the 2026 Faculty of Science and Technology

Mathematics, information, natural-science technology, and hands-on workshop courses are recognized by course-to-course correspondence. English courses are also recognized by course-to-course correspondence. Specialized-education courses are recognized by course matching; when a course cannot be matched, it may be recognized comprehensively based on a decision by the department the student enters.

Recognition rules for the 2025 Faculty of Engineering

For new entrants in the 2025 Faculty of Engineering, common-education courses are recognized using the credit value assigned by the institution the student enters. The supplied rules also state that common-education courses are recognized regardless of the year level assigned to the course.

How the assigned course year affects recognition

The supplied recognition rules state that recognition is made regardless of the year level assigned to the course in the relevant categories. This includes common-education courses for the 2025 Faculty of Engineering and the 2025 Faculty of Engineering Division II, and the relevant general-education or specialized-education recognition rules for the listed 2026 programmes. The supplied rules also state that specialized-education courses for transfer entrants are recognized regardless of the assigned year.

Official sources

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