Kyoto University

Kyoto University is a national university in Kyoto, Japan, founded in 1897 as Kyoto Imperial University, the second imperial university after Tokyo. It remains a comprehensive research university organized around the Yoshida campus in eastern Kyoto, with engineering at Katsura and research institutes at Uji.

Graduate schools span letters, education, law, economics, science, medicine, pharmaceutical sciences, engineering, agriculture, human and environmental studies, energy science, Asian and African area studies, informatics, biostudies, and global environmental studies. Research institutes include the Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, the Institute for Chemical Research, the Disaster Prevention Research Institute, and the Center for iPS Cell Research and Application.

About 23,000 students are enrolled, with graduate students making up close to 40 percent and several thousand international students. Affiliated scientists include Nobel laureates Hideki Yukawa, Shinya Yamanaka, and Tasuku Honjo. Alumni work in Japanese science, government, and industry.

Master's and doctoral degrees follow the Japanese graduate-school and laboratory model, in which students join a professor's group, with April the usual entry point. Japanese government (MEXT) and university fellowships are the main scholarship routes for international students. Graduate life is centered on Yoshida, with some engineering and institute work at Katsura and Uji.

In the Grad School Navigator directory, Kyoto University lists 4 graduate programs across 4 subjects, all of them master's programs, with the widest choice in artificial intelligence, economics and electrical & computer engineering. Kyoto University holds rank 82 in the GSN Overall University Ranking.