Overview

The Veterinary Medicine programme offered by Hokkaido University provides doctoral training focused on global health issues affecting humans, animals, and ecosystems, including infectious diseases, chemical hazards, and environmental degradation. It addresses challenges that extend beyond national boundaries, emphasizing the need to maintain healthy living conditions while preserving ecological balance for future generations.

Key Facts

The programme prepares specialists with an international perspective who can design and implement solutions within the One Health framework. Admission includes evaluation through an essay, research plan, and interview, and the programme is jointly supported by graduate schools in veterinary medicine and infectious diseases, enabling integrated expertise across multiple health-related fields.

Programme Structure

Curriculum:

One Health and Global Disease Control
Infectious Diseases and Prevention
Environmental Health and Ecosystems
Veterinary Medicine and Public Health
Toxicology and Chemical Hazards
Research Methods and Scientific Communication

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 48 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2027-04-01 00:00:00

Application deadline not specified.
Starting 2027-10-01 00:00:00
- Apply before 2027-07-10 00:00:00

Language

English

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Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

Sapporo, Japan

Disciplines

Veterinary Medicine

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Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

English requirements

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Other requirements

General requirements

The WISE Program for One Health Frontier Graduate School of Excellence is a doctoral program (four years), and the admission limit is 20 people.

Of successful applicants of the Graduate School of Veterinary Medicine (up to 16 people) and the Graduate School of Infectious Diseases (up to 12 people), applicants for this program will be screened through an essay, a research plan, and an interview just after admission to either graduate school. For more information, see the website.

Veterinary School has abolished its own English test as a method of evaluating the foreign language (English) ability required for study from the 2020 entrance examination, and has shifted to using external test (TOEFL, TOEIC, IELTS, etc.) scores.

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Tuition Fees

Tuition fees are shown in and the most likely applicable fee is shown based on your nationality.

International Applies to you

Applies to you

Non-residents

535800 JPY / year

≈ 535800 JPY / year
Domestic Applies to you

Applies to you

Citizens or residents

535800 JPY / year

≈ 535800 JPY / year

Living costs

Sapporo-shi

Japan

111200 - 165260 JPY / month

The living costs include the total expenses per month, covering accommodation, public transportation, utilities (electricity, internet), books and groceries.