Hey you guys since I'm Anming. Welcome to Waseda University. Lately I've
been watching a lot of YouTube blogs about Japan and China and just kind of
wondering like what makes my experience different like what do I have to bring
to the table and then I thought about it like I'm like the luckiest person ever
because I can come to a Japanese University for free seriously no tuition
no tests no nothing I just walked in here I feel like I found the Chico to
life so today I want to show you the loophole and how you could go here too
if you do it the right way welcome to Waseda. Let me tell you a
little bit about Waseda it was founded in 1882 by then Prime Minister of Japan
Okuma Shigenobu and it's really hard for Japanese people to get into this
school there's like a ten percent acceptance rate or less and it all
depends on your performance on one entrance exam but for foreign students
it's a lot easier and Waseda has a reputation for not having a lot of
homework being kind of laid-back that might be true for undergrad students but
us grad students work pretty hard and we do get a substantial amount of homework
as well as what they call a "zemi" which is a seminar where you have like a
discussion panel and you get judged and you have to do presentations in front of
your teacher and we have a lot of gifts at the gift
store remember Waseda is the best school in Japan because we have a bear and if
you have a bear you're automatically the winner this is really simple we have the
cutest mascot so we win Waseda is the best
university in Japan remember that
oh my gosh we have our own bus welcome aboard the Waseda bus!
oh that's hokey but it's convenient so really nice day for January it's like
warm I've got my redbull man they should like pay me for this advertising
or like give me some of my money back I bought so many of these
you need it when you're writing a thesis
so there are multiple campuses at Waseda this is the main campus that's where I
go but there's a couple others some are not too far they're all kind of in the
Shinjuku district area and this is my favorite one I think it's the prettiest
and it's where I go but I've seen the others and they're pretty nice too
I hope that you enjoy looking around here and I got to go to the library you
guys because I have to print my homework okay we got to go to the library let's
go if you want to get into the library you're gonna need one of these
Waseda university has one of the largest private libraries in all of Japan and
you can just see that this place is huge it's got multiple levels and there's
tons of smart people studying in here because a nice university needs a nice
library that's right Waseda is right up there with Tokyo University, Kyoto
University, Keio there are all really great places so how
did I get to study here for free with no entrance exam or anything we'll get to that
now that we went to the library and I got my homework printed out yeah for
Japanese debate class we're talking about guns. We're gonna debate guns in
Japan they don't have guns obviously but now that this is printed now I can show
you the rest of the campus which is going to be specifically where I take
classes which is the (Japanese) the Asian Pacific Studies Department
So, let's go!
when I first came to Waseda it was really hard to find this building
because it's like tucked in the back of the campus in the corner and not many
people go here as you see right here they're not too friendly if you don't
have anything to do with here don't go in.
Going to grad school and Japan is certainly a lot cheaper than it would be in America and I was told that they pay
about twelve thousand dollars a year for our program without housing or anything
included just tuition and you're probably wondering how the heck was I
able to come here for free then and I don't have to pay anything well here's a
secret I'm actually an exchange student I'm not getting my degree from Waseda
but I can come here for one semester and study as a Chinese exchange student yeah
Waseda's got the China connection up in here and there's a lot of Chinese
students and I go to Fudan University in Shanghai and just through them I'm able
to come here for free so thank you China I know Americans don't say that a lot
This is the Japanese Language Center this is where all the foreign students go if
they want to improve their Japanese from low low level to high level we're taking
the highest level class today we're going to debate Japanese let's try our best
Hey look. We're back at Takadanobaba Station.
So, I'm gonna go to JR. You're going that way?
Alright, see you next week. Bye bye
Thanks so much for watching today's video.
I hope you enjoyed the campus tour and enjoyed listening to my loophole secret
now for the comment today which foreign country would you like to study in
please comment below thanks and see you next time