Economics

Program Overview

Waseda's School of Political Science and Economics teaches a BA in Economics entirely in English in Tokyo. It combines solid theoretical foundations with the collection and analysis of empirical data, building quantitative skills through microeconomics, macroeconomics, game theory and econometrics, and offers specialised courses that apply them to real policy issues. The school runs one of the largest laboratories for experimental economics in Asia. The English-based programme admits in September only, on a holistic review of the application documents, and no Japanese is required. How competitive: in 2026, 218 of 994 applicants to the school's English-based programme were admitted, and those admitted averaged 38.9 IB points out of 42 (predicted grades included, the core not counted). Waseda sets no minimum score and decides on the whole application.