# 学校教育法 / School Education Act — 第八十七条 (Article 87) - 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: 第八十七条 (Article 87) — address `art-87` - Text in force since: 2026-06-17 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/art-87 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-87 - 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. --- ### 第八十七条 art-87 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/art-87 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-87 **第一項** 大学の修業年限は、四年とする。ただし、特別の専門事項を教授研究する学部及び前条の夜間において授業を行う学部については、その修業年限は、四年を超えるものとすることができる。 art-87/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/art-87/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-87/par-1 The course term for universities is to be 4 years; provided, however, that for faculties teaching and researching special professional matters, and faculties providing night classes referred to in the preceding article, their course terms may exceed 4 years. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 医学を履修する課程、歯学を履修する課程、薬学を履修する課程のうち臨床に係る実践的な能力を培うことを主たる目的とするもの又は獣医学を履修する課程については、前項本文の規定にかかわらず、その修業年限は、六年とする。 art-87/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/art-87/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-87/par-2 Courses with the principal purpose of fostering clinical practical abilities or courses for veterinary studies, among courses for medicine, courses for dentistry, and courses for pharmacy, notwithstanding the provision of the main clause in the preceding paragraph, are to have a course term of 6 years. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-87/par-1: 前条 → 学校教育法 第八十六条 (Article 86), art-86 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/art-86 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-86 - art-87/par-2: 前項 → 学校教育法 第八十七条第一項 (Article 87, paragraph (1)), art-87/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/art-87/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-87/par-1 ## Cited by 5 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 学校教育法 第八十三条の二第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/art-83-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-83-2/par-3 - 学校教育法 第八十七条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/art-87/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-87/par-2 - 学校教育法 第八十七条の二第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/art-87-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-87-2/par-1 - 学校教育法 第八十九条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/art-89/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-89/par-1 - 学校教育法 第百八条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/art-108/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-108/par-2 --- ## 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