119 PhD programmes in Japan

Primarily this Intellectual Exchange and Innovation doctoral program at Kyushu University has been conceived to provide a high-tech training academy for talented young people to become the future distinguished academics of Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa. Such individuals, it is hoped will retain deep, meaningful and long term connections with Japan.

The study of Materials Science and Engineering at Kyushu University is fundamental for providing people with safety, security and reliability, and it is essential for the broad range of technologies that exist in the 21st century. 

The Department of Chemical Engineering at Kyushu University comprises the eight specialized fields within this doctoral programme. 

The Department of Mechanical Engineering at Kyushu University aims to provide students with an unsurpassed opportunity to gain broad, substantial expertise and comprehensive skills in mechanical engineering, and also a fundamental knowledge of interdisciplinary areas that meet up-to-date requirements, so that graduates are able to go on to work as leading engineers and researchers.

We offer a Applied Quantum Physics and Nuclear Engineering degree at the Kyushu University. Join us! 

Kyushu University’s Law program offers students the unique opportunity of preparing a doctoral thesis on law in English whilst studying at a Japanese university. 

The Medical and Dental Sciences program from Tokyo Medical and Dental University provides education that emphasizes balance and organic links between course work and research training. 

This Resilience Engineering (Systems Innovation) program at The University of Tokyo aims at educating talents who have acquired expertise on resilience engineering as well as comprehensive views to make a career in various domains. 

The Graduate School of Medicine at Keio University International Center offers two unique doctoral program options: the Medical Science Program and the Applied Medicine Program.

We offer a phd degree in Computer Science at the Osaka University. The Department of Information and Computer Sciences aims at educating undergraduate students to acquire basic scientific ability and technological mastery in the fields of informatics and mathematical science.

Research and education in the Division of Nonlinear Mechanics from Osaka University aim at establishing new fields of nonlinear mechanics from various mechanical phenomena and problems arising from man-made objects and/or nature, to create novel functions and machines, and at fostering students with such capabilities.

The Graduate School of System Design and Management at Keio University International Center offers a unique curriculum unavailable at other graduate schools based on systems engineering with a focus on hands-on problem solving and educational excellence.

Welcome to the International Program in Agricultural Development Studies (IPADS) offered at the The University of Tokyo. 

In the Intelligent Systems Science from Osaka University, we aim to produce world-class human resources capable of solving problems by comprehensively understanding different fields and creating new systems that bring about harmony and cooperation among humans, machines, and the environment. 

We will support Information Systems Engineering students at Osaka University who want to start highly specialized research quickly by adopting "skipping grades", which is commonplace in Europe and the United States.

The Science and Technology doctoral program at Keio University International Center aims to train students to produce creative and distinctive research results, simultaneously acquiring professional skills to take up leading positions in a science and technology field as well as contribute to the society we live in.

Energy takes form in terms of light, electricity, chemicals, machine, nuclear energy, and heat, and to understand, manufacture, convert, and apply it, it is important to have a broad knowledge of areas such as physics and chemistry. We offer a Quantum Energy Engineering degree at the Osaka University. 

The Department of Physics at Osaka University offers a world-class education to its undergraduate and graduate students.

Architectural Planning and History - Environmental Design and Control in Architecture is offered at Kyushu University.

The Medical Sciences PhD degree at Kyushu University course is a 4-year degree for students who have at least 18 years of education including a master’s course.