Ranked 17th in the QS University Rankings: Asia 2016, Osaka University is the sixth oldest university in Japan, having originally been founded in 1724. The 63rd best university in the world according to the QS World University Rankings® 2018, the Japanese university also ranks among the top 40 universities in the world for:
· Dentistry
· Chemical engineering
· Physics and astronomy
· Natural sciences
UNDERGRADUATE
Osaka University offers two extremely competitive international undergraduate programs:
· Human sciences
· Chemistry and biology
Every year, only 36 international students are admitted to Osaka University’s international college. For October admissions, make sure you apply with your personal statement, proof of your proficiency in English, letters of recommendations, references, transcripts and high school diploma by January 13.
POSTGRADUATE
Osaka University offers a number of graduate programs, including:
· Finance and insurance
· Advanced protein research
· Culture and colonialism
· Data science
Osaka University, sometimes called OU, is a Japanese national university that was founded in 1931 as the sixth imperial university of Japan. It is located in Osaka, Japan, and has three main campuses – Suita, Toyonaka and Minoh. In 2007, the university merged with the Osaka University of Foreign Studies. Upward of 23,000 students attended the institution in a recent year, and around two-thirds of them studied at the undergraduate level. That same year, roughly 9 percent of the student body was international. Tuition costs are the same for domestic and international students, and university housing is available for both undergraduate and graduate students.
The research-oriented university has 11 undergraduate schools: human sciences, foreign studies, law, letters, economics, science, medicine, dentistry, pharmaceutical sciences, engineering and engineering science. The university also has more than a dozen graduate schools, including a school of language and culture, school of information science and technology, and a school of frontier biosciences. The institution’s academic calendar is semester-based, and the primary language of instruction for undergraduates is Japanese, though a few English-taught undergraduate degree programs are available. English-language instruction is a bit more common at the graduate level. The university boasts multiple libraries, including a life science library, a science and engineering library and an international studies library. Osaka University's research institutes include the Research Institute for Microbial Diseases and the Joining and Welding Research Institute.
Osaka University was founded in 1931, when the Osaka Prefecture Medical School became Osaka Imperial University. This change was part of a national policy in Japan in which several imperal universities were established as centre of higher education and research. Originally the university had two schools – Medicine and Science – which increased to three in 1933 with the addition of Engineering, and five in 1949 with the addition of the School of Letters and the School of Economics when the university became Osaka University after the Second World War.
Today, Osaka University has 11 undergraduate schools, 16 graduate schools – including International Public Policy and Frontier Biosciences – five research institutes, two university hospitals and three national joint-use facilities, including the Research Center for Nuclear Physics and the Cybermedia Center. It is one of two national universities to have a School of Foreign Studies, and is the largest national university in Japan.
The university is spread across four campuses – Suita, Toyonaka, Minoh, and Nakanoshima – and is home to more than 15,000 undergraduates, 8,000 graduates and 2,000 international students, the majority of whom are graduates. They are taught by an academic staff of just under 3,200, with 3,645 part-time staff. Notable alumni include the Nobel Laureate in Physics Hideki Yukawa, Akira Yoshino, the inventor of the lithium-ion battery, and Sony founder Akio Morita.
Osaka is an industrial city in the Kansai region of Japan that has been called “the Manchester of the Orient”. It is the second-largest city in Japan after Tokyo and has a population of 19 million.