Osaka University

Osaka University is a national research university in Osaka Prefecture, Japan, with campuses at Suita, Toyonaka, and Minoh. It was founded in 1931 as Osaka Imperial University, the sixth of the former imperial universities, drawing on older Osaka schools including Ogata Koan's Tekijuku and the prefectural medical school. After 1947 it took its present name and grew into a comprehensive national university.

Faculties and graduate schools cover letters, human sciences, law, economics, science, medicine, dentistry, pharmaceutical sciences, engineering, engineering science, and language and culture, plus interdisciplinary units such as frontier biosciences and information science. The university is known for immunology, microbial disease, protein research, physics, and engineering. Graduate students work at the Immunology Frontier Research Center, the Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, the Institute for Protein Research, and the university hospitals in Suita.

Enrollment is about 23,000 students, including roughly 8,000 graduate students. Several thousand international students come from more than 100 countries. Faculty number about 3,000 including hospital clinicians. Immunologist Shimon Sakaguchi, a Nobel laureate in physiology or medicine, is based there. Alumni include Sony co-founder Akio Morita and physician-artist Osamu Tezuka.

Graduate study follows Japanese master's and doctoral courses, with laboratory supervision in the sciences and seminars in the humanities. The academic year runs from April to March. MEXT scholarships, university fellowships, and research assistantships are the main support. Students move between suburban Suita laboratories, the Toyonaka campus, and the wider Osaka-Kobe region.

In the Grad School Navigator directory, Osaka University lists 1 master's program, in information systems & MIS. Osaka University holds rank 187 in the GSN Overall University Ranking.