Foreign students generally have to obtain a guarantee of acceptance from a professor before applying for admission to a Japanese university, but at Kyoto they can dispense with that procedure and apply to the school directly.
按照通例，留學生在申請日本著名大學或大學院（研究所）時，通常得先找到教授，得其允以收留的承諾之後，再向校方提出申請；而在京大，即使不經教授，直接向校方提出申請，也可得到入學許可。