Graduate School of Science

　While astonishing progress is being made in a wide area of science and technology, particularly in such fields as material science and life science, a number of serious problems, including environmental and energy issues, are causing great concern.  It is one of the missions of the Graduate School of Science to nurture excellent researchers who can apply their highly specialized knowledge in the natural sciences to help solve these problems and to pioneer new research fields.

　The Graduate School of Science offers five majors: chemistry, biology, biomolecular science, physics, and information science. In 2009, one more major, environmental science, is scheduled to be added. An academic environment oriented toward advanced research, combined with strong support from distinguished professors, enables students to perform advanced research on topics of their choice. After earning an M.S. or Ph.D. degree, students find positions as researchers or engineers in fields related to their major.

　Also, to make it easier for students from both inside and outside Japan to enter graduate school, we admit students in both the first and second semesters, which is still unusual in Japan.  We also encourage students to take courses from different majors in order to produce specialists with a broader foundation of science.