6 PhD programmes offered by the university

The Post Graduate School of Medicine provides various professors and staff with superior research ability which covers most of the medical field. This Network Medical Course is offered at Tohoku University.

The International Environmental Security Leadership Program at Tohoku University Graduate School of Environmental Studies provides a trans-disciplinary education, combining the humanities and sciences with instructors from the Department of Environmental Studies for Advanced Society and the Department of Frontier Sciences for Advanced Environment.

The International Graduate Program in Language Sciences program of Tohoku University consists of a 2-year Master’s program and a 3-year doctoral program affiliated with the Graduate School of International Cultural Studies at Tohoku University. 

The Graduate School of Life Sciences at Tohoku University offers post-graduate programs for both master’s and doctoral degrees in Life Sciences.

International Graduate Program for Advanced Science is a graduate program offered at Tohoku University. Each department involved determines its own curriculum and course requirements, and the availability of classes varies depending on the semester and/or departments.

The mission of this program at the Graduate School of Dentistry at Tohoku University is to train international leaders and highly specialized professionals of dentistry, dental care and oral health for the next generation, who have a research-oriented outlook and a scientific mind