# 学校教育法 / School Education Act — 第九十一条 (Article 91) - 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: 第九十一条 (Article 91) — address `art-91` - Text in force since: 2026-06-17 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-91 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-91 - 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. --- ### 第九十一条 art-91 · https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-91 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-91 **第一項** 大学には、専攻科及び別科を置くことができる。 art-91/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-91/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-91/par-1 Universities may have diploma courses and special courses. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 大学の専攻科は、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に対して、精深な程度において、特別の事項を教授し、その研究を指導することを目的とし、その修業年限は、一年以上とする。 art-91/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-91/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-91/par-2 University diploma courses are to have the purpose of teaching persons who have graduated from university, or persons deemed to have the equivalent or greater scholastic ability as provided for by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, specialized matters, to a deep and detailed extent, as well as instructing their research, and the course term is to be 1 year or more. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 大学の別科は、前条第一項に規定する入学資格を有する者に対して、簡易な程度において、特別の技能教育を施すことを目的とし、その修業年限は、一年以上とする。 art-91/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-91/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-91/par-3 University special courses are to have the purpose of administering special skill education to a simple extent, to persons qualified to enroll pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article, and the course term is to be 1 year or more. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-91/par-3: 前条第一項 → 学校教育法 第九十条第一項 (Article 90, paragraph (1)), art-90/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-90/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-90/par-1 --- ## Sources - 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 - This site's parser, version 210 — 学校教育法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19