Nagoya University of Commerce & Business Admission 2027: Deadlines, Requirements, Fees for International Students

Admission at a glance

Nagoya University of Commerce and Business, NUCB, is a private business university on the Nisshin campus near Nagoya, accredited by AACSB. Its Global BBA is described by the university as the only Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Japan taught entirely in English, and it enrols around 300 international students a year from more than 70 nationalities alongside Japanese students studying in English. Admission runs through a multi-stage rolling schedule with several application windows across the year for both April and September entry; the later stages in each cycle are reserved for domestic applicants only, so international applicants need to apply in one of the earlier stages. The English requirement is comparatively accessible for a bachelor's degree: an IELTS Academic score of 5.50 is the stated minimum, and applicants from a list of mainly English-speaking countries, including the UK, the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and Singapore, do not need to submit a test score at all if they completed 12 years of education there. NUCB also runs English-medium MBA and MSc programmes through NUCB Business School in Nagoya city itself, a separate campus and admissions process from the undergraduate Global BBA. The Global BBA's total cost is published as a single four-year figure rather than broken down cleanly by year, and includes a one-time entrance fee alongside tuition.

Requirements

Bachelor

The Global BBA admits applicants who have completed secondary education equivalent to a Japanese high school diploma, with an IELTS Academic score of 5.50 or higher; applicants are exempted from the test requirement if they completed 12 years of education in a set list of mainly English-speaking countries. Applicants can submit an IELTS Test Report Form number instead of the physical certificate.

Full requirements and documents