japanese university, good reputation?

To Me:

I actually did mention in my first post that i spoke some japanese. But perhaps i didn't specify that enough, sorry about that. If you want my entire record, i've went to japan for the first time in 2003 for 5 weeks with an organization called YFU (similar to AFS). Then in 2006 i went back to japan to study japanese there at a language school. Now i've been back in belgium for a year, and realized that maybe i had wanted to study in japan afterall. There you go:)
Naturally, i have japanese friends too, and i do know stuff about japan, but i just don't know an awful lot about japanese universities and their criteria. That's why i wanted to know if there were any foreigners out there as well who had similar experiences.

Well, i wouldn't say i'm not concerned about the education (as you put it), but if i will be studying in japan, the university i study at would probably be a little less important. I come to this conclusion after having read posts like Uco's in which she said that it doesn't matter that much in the end.

But actually, the criteria really depend on what you want to study. From what i've researched now, if it's sciences or economics, rest assure that you will need to take science subjects and maths etc. However, if it's the faculty of letters that one would want to study at, it seems like the japanese test is the only criteria. Even Chuo university only requires you to take a japanese test for their faculty of letters.

To Redfrog:

Ah, so i assume your parents were entrepreneurs? We also have our 'office' if you will, in our home. So i think we're in the same boat=) Yeah i wouldn't argue that lots of things you learn in such environments, and from older people with more life experience. So maybe i should start to accept the fact that university only teaches you little bit of all the information that's out there. Sometimes maybe, i do tend to forget that it's not the degree that gets you where you want in life, but yourself.

D,

Generally speaking, in terms of what you learn it depends more on yourself and the efforts you put in studying while at the university.

As for finding a job (again generaly speaking) it DOES matter the university from where you graduated. Tokyo University is still the one with higher reputation.

I am not saying that those who graduate from small universities cannot find a good job. However, those graduating from famous universities have more chances to find a good job in Japan.

My suggestion as foreign professor in Japan if you want quality and a real university level, Japan is not the best choice.

You will lose your time unless you want to learn only Japanese.

University means for many students sleeping, arubeito time until four year that means job hunting and not attending lessons. The opposite concept of what should be a university. A place to specialise.