# 学校教育法 / School Education Act — 第百二条 (Article 102) - Law: 学校教育法 (School Education Act), 昭和二十二年法律第二十六号 - English title "School Education Act": Ministry of Justice translation - Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say. - Provision: 第百二条 (Article 102) — address `art-102` - Text in force since: 2026-06-17 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-102 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-102 - Every provision below carries its address and both URLs on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第百二条 art-102 · https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-102 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-102 **第一項** 大学院に入学することのできる者は、第八十三条の大学を卒業した者又は文部科学大臣の定めるところにより、これと同等以上の学力があると認められた者とする。ただし、研究科の教育研究上必要がある場合においては、当該研究科に係る入学資格を、修士の学位若しくは第百四条第三項に規定する文部科学大臣の定める学位を有する者又は文部科学大臣の定めるところにより、これと同等以上の学力があると認められた者とすることができる。 art-102/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-102/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-102/par-1 Persons who may be enrolled in graduate schools are persons who have graduated from universities as referred to in Article 83, or persons who are deemed to have the equivalent or greater scholastic ability pursuant to the provisions of the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology; provided, however, that when there is a necessity in graduate program education and research, a person possessing a master's degree or a degree prescribed by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology as provided for in the provisions of Article 104, paragraph (3), or a person who is deemed to have the equivalent or greater scholastic ability, as provided for by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, may qualify for admittance to the relevant graduate program. machine translation, not official **第二項** 前項本文の規定にかかわらず、大学院を置く大学は、文部科学大臣の定めるところにより、第八十三条の大学に文部科学大臣の定める年数以上在学した者（これに準ずる者として文部科学大臣が定める者を含む。）であつて、当該大学院を置く大学の定める単位を優秀な成績で修得したと認めるもの（当該単位の修得の状況及びこれに準ずるものとして文部科学大臣が定めるものに基づき、これと同等以上の能力及び資質を有すると認めるものを含む。）を、当該大学院に入学させることができる。 art-102/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-102/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-102/par-2 Notwithstanding the provisions of the main clause of the preceding paragraph, for universities with graduate schools, a person who has been enrolled in the universities referred to in Article 83, as prescribed by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, for the number of years or more as prescribed by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (This includes a person prescribed by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, as an equivalent to this), and a person found to have obtained the credits prescribed by universities with the relevant graduate schools with excellent grades (This includes a person found to possess equivalent or greater abilities and qualities, on the basis of what is prescribed by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology as the state of obtaining the relevant credits and what is equivalent to this), may be enrolled in the relevant graduate schools. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "For universities with graduate schools, a person who has been enrolled in the universities referred to in Article 83, as prescribed by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, for the number of years or more as prescribed by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (This includes a person prescribed by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, as an equivalent to this), and a person found to have obtained the credits prescribed by universities with the relevant graduate schools with excellent grades (This includes a person found to possess equivalent or greater abilities and qualities, on the basis of what is prescribed by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology as the state of obtaining the relevant credits and what is equivalent to this), may be enrolled in the relevant graduate schools." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4743/tb --- ## Cites - art-102/par-1: 第八十三条 → 学校教育法 第八十三条 (Article 83), art-83 — https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-83 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-83 - art-102/par-1: 第百四条第三項 → 学校教育法 第百四条第三項 (Article 104, paragraph (3)), art-104/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-104/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-104/par-3 - art-102/par-2: 前項 → 学校教育法 第百二条第一項 (Article 102, paragraph (1)), art-102/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-102/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-102/par-1 - art-102/par-2: 第八十三条 → 学校教育法 第八十三条 (Article 83), art-83 — https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-83 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-83 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 学校教育法 第百二条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-102/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-102/par-2 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of paragraphs, written 2026-10-19 - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 学校教育法 — the text in force from 2026-06-17 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/322AC0000000026/20260617_508AC0000000037), retrieved 2026-10-19 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — School Education Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4743/tb), retrieved 2026-10-19 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — School Education Act (学校教育法), Article 102, paragraph (2) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4743/tb), retrieved 2026-10-19 - claude-sonnet-5-5, corrected on review by claude-opus-5-5 — Machine translation corrected on review, batch school-education-act-20261019T141625-001, translated 2026-10-19 - This site's parser, version 210 — 学校教育法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19