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To be honest, Academic excellence and a real interest in foreign exchange is the most important thing for these types of universities, especially programs like AIKOM, where most of their courses are more cultural based. So for those that want to continue with the degree they're doing back home, will have to do a lot of independent study.

Unless you're fluent enough in Japanese or want to just have a sort of gap year while studying Japanese Culture, I wouldn't recommend most exchange programs in Japan. All the best ranked universities require Self Study where there is a lack of English lessons. So if you want to graduate straight from the exchange programme, either find a university that definitely has your course in English or prepare to spend most of your time in the library.

Oxford, Cambdrige, Harvard and Yale might not be there, but you have Fudan, Pekin U, Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris, Grenoble and Cairo which are pretty much on par!