Education
Kyoto University
Founded in 1897, Kyoto University celebrated its centennial in 1997. As shown by the fact that the University has produced four Nobel laureates, the best record of any Japanese university, it is first and foremost a world-ranking research university. With its ten faculties, fourteen graduate schools, thirteen affiliated research institutes, and seventeen research and educational centres, it is the second largest national university in Japan. Its scale can be understood from the fact that it has 13,900 undergraduate students, 7,800 graduate students, including about 1,100 from other countries, 2,800 teachers and 2,500 administrative staff.
Kyoto University offers the highest quality of education and research in this country, a fact which is widely recognized. International activities are flourishing. Kyoto University faculty members travel frequently for research and meetings, and more than 1,500 overseas researchers visit Kyoto University each year. Kyoto University has established exchange agreements with various universities in other countries with a view to international exchange and cooperation in both educational and academic domains.
Kyoto University is a prominent not only in scientific research but also in the humanities, including the well-known and much-admired "Kyoto School."
In recent years, Kyoto University has been giving more and more importance to activities at graduate level, and has established new graduate schools to cope with the emerging problems which will confront us in the next century. These new schools include the Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, the Graduate School of Energy Science, the Graduate School of Informatics, the Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, and the Graduate School of Biostudies. The substantial nature of these reforms has required reorganization of traditional and long-established academic domains into new academic disciplines to fit the coming century. These activities show that Kyoto University is always fresh and flexible in education and research, a dynamism arising from the traditional spirit of Kyoto University's academic freedom, which has been cultivated through the University's history of one hundred years.
At Kyoto University you can study the subjects of your choice at the world's highest level. We invite you to join us.
