# 学校教育法 / School Education Act — 第八十九条 (Article 89) - 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: 第八十九条 (Article 89) — address `art-89` - Text in force since: 2026-06-17 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/art-89 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-89 - 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. --- ### 第八十九条 art-89 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/art-89 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-89 **第一項** 大学は、文部科学大臣の定めるところにより、当該大学の学生（第八十七条第二項に規定する課程に在学するものを除く。）で当該大学に三年（同条第一項ただし書の規定により修業年限を四年を超えるものとする学部の学生にあつては、三年以上で文部科学大臣の定める期間）以上在学したもの（これに準ずるものとして文部科学大臣の定める者を含む。）が、卒業の要件として当該大学の定める単位を優秀な成績で修得したと認める場合には、同項の規定にかかわらず、その卒業を認めることができる。 art-89/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/art-89/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-89/par-1 If it is found that students of the relevant universities (except persons who are attending courses prescribed in the provisions of Article 87, paragraph (2)) who have been in school for 3 years or more (For students of faculties which are to have a course term exceeding 4 years pursuant to the proviso in paragraph (1) of that article; a period of 3 years or more prescribed by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology) (this includes persons prescribed by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, as an equivalent to this) have obtained, with excellent grades, the credits specified by the relevant universities as the requirement for graduation, their graduation may be allowed, notwithstanding the provision of that paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-89/par-1: 第八十七条第二項 → 学校教育法 第八十七条第二項 (Article 87, paragraph (2)), art-87/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/art-87/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-87/par-2 - art-89/par-1: 同条第一項 → 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 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 学校教育法 附則第二項（学校教育法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/suppl-4111-55/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/suppl-4111-55/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