The Graduate University for Advanced Studies

The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, SOKENDAI (総合研究大学院大学, Sōgō kenkyū daigakuin daigaku) is one of the national universities of Japan, headquartered in Shonan Village (湘南国際村) in the town of Hayama in Kanagawa Prefecture. Sōkendai (総研大), as it is generally called in its abbreviated form, was established in 1988, with Dr. Saburo Nagakura as its president. From 1988 to 1995, its headquarters were at the Tokyo Institute of Technology in Nagatsuta, Midori-ku, Yokohama, before moving to their present location.

The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, SOKENDAI
総合研究大学院大学
TypePublic (National)
Established1988
PresidentMariko HASEGAWA
Academic staff
1138 academic / 42 supports (As of May 1, 2020)
UndergraduatesNone
Postgraduates543 (As of May 1, 2020)
Location
Hayama
,
Kanagawa
,
Japan
LanguageJapanese, English
Websitehttps://www.soken.ac.jp/en

Sokendai is the first national university in Japan that started offering exclusively graduate programs. It accepts both bachelor's and master's students. Students with bachelor's degrees enter a five-year integrated graduate program, while master's students enter its three-year graduate program.[1]

Sokendai operates as a distributed research university that cooperates with research institutes throughout Japan. There are six schools, each offering specialization programs. 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.

Objective

Sokendai is a National Graduate University of Japan, conforming to the guidelines stipulated under the provisions of Japan's National University Corporation Act. TheNational Graduate Universities' objective is to anticipate the future, nurture specialized researchers with broader visions, and contribute to the public benefit.

Schools

The university has these six schools:[2]

  1. Cultural and Social Studies
  2. Physical Sciences
  3. High-Energy Accelerator Science
  4. Multidisciplinary Sciences
  5. Life Science
  6. Advanced Sciences

Rankings

The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, SOKENDAI has been ranked highly amongst Japanese research universities by the Center for World University Rankings (CWUR), coming 31st in Japan and 598th in the world (top 2.2%) in 2017.[3][4]

Location

Sokendai main campus is located at Shonankokusaimura, Hayama, Miura District, Kanagawa Prefecture, 240-0193 Japan. Each of its distributed schools is located at the host institutes throughout Japan. For example, the School of Multidisciplinary Sciences, Department of Informatics is located at National Institute of Informatics (NII).

References
  1. Admissions, Sokendai official website
  2. Academics, Sokendai official website
  3. "Graduate University for Advanced Studies, SOKENDAI - CWUR ranking, 2017". Retrieved 26 April 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  4. "Japan universities - CWUR ranking, 2017". Retrieved 26 April 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

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