Osaka University | Japan

Osaka University has supplied Japanese society with a great number of women and men of high talent. It is also well known and admired in the international community for its outstanding achievements in various scientific research fields. Having celebrated the 75th anniversary of its foundation in May 2006, the university is enlisting all of its talent to take a bold leap forward. The goal is to become a “university of world caliber” by advancing the university’s decade-old motto “Live Locally, Grow Globally”. Osaka University has 11 faculties/schools- School of Letters, Human Sciences, Foreign Studies (School only), Law, Economics, Science, Medicine, Dentistry, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Engineering and Engineering Science. The university has 5 graduate schools - Graduate School of Language and Culture, Osaka School of International Public Policy, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences and Law School. There are five research institutes - Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research, Institute for Protein Research, Institute of Social and Economic Research and the Joining and Welding Research Institute. There are further 23 facilities affiliated with the faculties/schools, graduate schools or research institutes, libraries with three branches, two hospitals, 20 university and 3 nationwide joint-use facilities.