Gakushuin University


Gakushūin University is a private university in Mejiro, Toshima, Tokyo.
The Gakushūin was established during the Meiji period to educate the children of the Japanese nobility, but at that time the institution had only primary and secondary education departments. The university was established after World War II as tertiary component of the reorganised and privatised Gakushūin School Corporation.
The university is still noted for its royal connections, with most of the members of the present Imperial Family among its alumni.
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Faculties

The university provides a range of Japanese-language classes for foreign students. Although designed for Japanese students, approximately 60 classes are held in English, mainly in the Faculty of International Social Sciences. Each year the university admits approximately 80 foreign students of high academic and social standing to study in each faculty and graduate school.

Academic rankings

General rankings

The university was ranked 72nd in 2010 in the Truly Strong Universities ranking issued by Toyo Keizai.
QS World University Rankings ranked Gakushuin University as 161st in Asia in 2010.

Research performance

Japanese national universities generally have higher standards of research than private universities. However, Gakushuin is one of the few private universities which competes with the top national universities. According to Quacquarelli Symonds, Gakushuin is the 6th-best research university in Japan and the 9th-best in Asia in terms of citations per paper.
Gakushuin is the highest-ranked Japanese university in the Nature Index measurement of research output quality.

Graduate school rankings

Gakushuin Law School was 24th in 2009 and 25th in 2010 in Japan on the basis of the number of its successful candidates for bar examination.

Alumni rankings

According to Yomiuri Weekly's 2008 rankings, alumni of Gakushuin have the 3rd best graduate prospectives among Japanese universities. Gakushuin was top in the rankings of the Finance and Tourism industries.
École des Mines de Paris ranked Gakushuin University as 92nd in the world in 2010 in terms of the number of alumni listed among CEOs in the 500 largest worldwide companies.

Popularity and selectivity

Gakushuin had 7.58 applicants per place in the 2011 undergraduate admissions. Its entrance exams are also selective.

Notable alumni

Imperial House of Japan

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Politics

Arts and entertainment

Others