# 学校教育法 / School Education Act — 第八十八条 (Article 88) - 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: 第八十八条 (Article 88) — address `art-88` - Text in force since: 2026-06-17 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-88 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-88 - 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. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第八十八条 art-88 · https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-88 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-88 **第一項** 大学の学生以外の者として一の大学において一定の単位を修得した者が当該大学に入学する場合において、当該単位の修得により当該大学の教育課程の一部を履修したと認められるときは、文部科学大臣の定めるところにより、修得した単位数その他の事項を勘案して大学が定める期間を修業年限に通算することができる。ただし、その期間は、当該大学の修業年限の二分の一を超えてはならない。 art-88/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-88/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-88/par-1 When a person who has obtained a certain amount of credits at a university other than as a student of the university is to enroll in that university, if they are deemed to have taken courses which are part of the curricula of the relevant university through obtaining the relevant credits, a period specified by the university considering matters including the number of credits obtained may be counted in the course term, pursuant to the provisions of the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology; provided, however, that that period may not exceed one half of the course term of the relevant university. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "When a person who has obtained a certain amount of credits in one university other than the university that person is to enroll, if they are deemed to have taken courses which are part of the curricula of the relevant university through obtaining the relevant credits, a period specified by the university considering matters including the number of credits obtained may be counted in the course term, pursuant to the provisions of the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology; provided, however, that that period may not exceed one half of the course term of the relevant universities." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4743/tb --- ## 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 88, paragraph (1) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4743/tb), retrieved 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