The Graduate University for Advanced Studies
The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, SOKENDAI is one of the national universities of Japan, headquartered in in the town of Hayama in Kanagawa Prefecture. Sōkendai, as it is generally called in its abbreviated form, was established in 1988, with Dr. Saburo Nagakura as its president. SOKENDAI is the first national university in Japan having offered exclusively graduate programs. Graduate students are trained at affiliated research institutes distributed around Japan and the world. It has both five-year doctoral programs for students with a bachelor's degree and three-year programs for those with a master's degree.
Objective
SOKENDAI is a National Graduate University of Japan, conforming to the guidelines stipulated under the provisions of Japan's National University Corporation Act. The National Graduate Universities' objective is to anticipate the future, nurture specialized researchers with broader visions, and contribute to the public benefit.Schools
SOKENDAI operates as a distributed research university that cooperates with research institutes throughout Japan. Administration and general courses are provided by SOKENDAI headquarters at the Hayama campus. Specialized courses and research activities are conducted at the host research institutes, including 16 research institutes working under four inter-university research institute corporations, the National Institute of Multimedia Education, and the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science. There are six schools, each offering specialization research programs in collaboration with the research institutes. The six schools include:#
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Rankings
The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, SOKENDAI has been ranked highly amongst global universities by the, placed 598th in the world in 2017. It has also been ranked highly amongst Japanese research universities by, placed 16th in Japan in 2022 based on research strength indicators.Location
SOKENDAI main campus is located at Shonan-Kokusai-Mura, Hayama Town, Miura District, Kanagawa Prefecture, 240-0193 Japan.Each of its distributed schools campus is located at the host institutes:
- Hayama - Research Center for Integrative Evolutionary Science, Graduate University for Advanced Studies head office
- Suita - National Museum of Ethnology
- Katsurazaka - International Research Center for Japanese Studies
- Kamigamo - Research Institute for Humanity and Nature
- Toki - National Institute for Fusion Science
- Okazaki - Institute for Molecular Science, National Institute for Basic Biology, National Institute for Physiological Sciences
- Mishima - National Institute of Genetics
- Sagamihara - Institute of Space and Astronautical Science
- Tachikawa - National Institute of Japanese Literature, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, National Institute of Polar Research
- Mitaka - National Astronomical Observatory of Japan
- Chiyoda - National Institute of Informatics
- Sakura - National Museum of Japanese History
- Tsukuba - High Energy Accelerator Research Organization
- Tokai - High Energy Accelerator Research Organization
- Mizusawa - National Astronomical Observatory of Japan
- Nobeyama - National Astronomical Observatory of Japan
- Hawaii - National Astronomical Observatory of Japan
- Atacama Desert - National Astronomical Observatory of Japan
- Showa Station - National Institute of Polar Research