Students who wish to satisfy the Columbia College and School of General Studies foreign language requirement, as well as those who wish to continue their study of Japanese at Columbia (without completing the prerequisite course at Columbia in the previous semester), must take the department’s placement exam during Orientation.
For information regarding registration, exam format, online review exercises, etc. please click here.
For all the placement/proficiency test fees, please visit our Language Testing Fee Policies page.
Proficiency Exam: For those who wish to get a certificate for language proficiency, please contact Chikako Takahashi ([email protected]).