Information for International Students

CHIBA University
founded in
1949 that boasts a history of over
125 years when its predecessor
institutions (Chiba Medical College,
Tokyo Polytechnic Institute, Chiba
Normal School, etc.) are included.
Comprising 10 faculties and 11
graduate schools. 4 campuses in
Chiba Prefecture.

EDUCATIONAL ASPECT:
Specified a Top global university
by Japan’s Ministry of Education,
Culture, Sports, Science and
Technology (MEXT). Top-ranked
national university in terms of both
selection for education related
competitive funding and number
of students who study abroad.

RESEARCH ASPECT:
A research university aspiring to
become one of the world’s leading
research institutions, ranking in the
top-class in research pertaining
to hadron astrophysics, chirality
materials science, immune system
regulation and therapeutics,
medical engineering, plant science
for health, and remote sensing in
particular.

REGIONAL CONTRIBUTION:
Received institutional specification
from MEXT, currently developing a
creative community construction
initiative.
Chiba University has 4 campuses in Chiba Prefecture.

Nishichiba Campus (Main Campus) is located between Narita

International Airport and Tokyo Station. It takes about 30 to 40 minutes
by train to Tokyo Station and also Narita International Airport.

CHIBA Prefecture is
located at the east edge of the
South Kanto region. It has a
population of approximately 6
million, the 6th largest among the
47 prefectures in Japan. Chiba
is the center of Keiyo Industrial
Area and has the well-developed
industry. The three sides of the
prefecture are surrounded by the
sea, which helps Chiba's growth in
the seafood industry as well.

Ueno Museum & Zoo

50 min
Ikebukuro
Dining and
Shopping Akihabara World-leading Electronic District
60 min 45 min
Narita Airport
Shinjyuku
Entertainment Tokyo Station
60 min
Maihama CHIBA UNIVERSITY
Harajyuku Tokyo Disney 50 min from Narita Airport
Pop-culture Resort 50 min from Tokyo Station
65 min Ginza 35 min
Shibuya World-renowned
Fashion and Shopping District
Entertainment 53 min
70 min

Haneda Airport

Yokohama
Histric Town
85 min

Website
http://japan-chiba-guide.com/
guidance/english/chiba.html

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SPECIALITY Liberal Arts and Law, Politics and
Sciences
of ● Global Studies
Economics
● Law

PROGRAM
- Immigration - Theoretical Jurisprudence
- Transportation - Public Law
- Natural history - Private Law
- Environment - Laws of International Relations
- Ecology ● Economics
- Natural disaster - Economic Theory
- International Conflict - Econometrics
- Humanitarian support - Applied Economics
● Contemporary Japan Studies - International Comparative
- Technology Economics
- Industry ● Management and Accounting
- Design Culture - Management
- Entertainment - Business Administration
- Sports ● Marketing
- Regional Revitalization - Bookkeeping
- Social Change - Cost Accounting
● Comprehensive Science - Financial Accounting
- Cutting-edge science ● Politics and Policy Studies
- Technology - Politics
- Society Life - Urban Policyand Welfare Policy
- Ethics - Comparative Foreign Policies
- Medical services
- Science communication

Letters
● Behavioral Sciences
- Philosophy
- Cognitive and Information Sciences
- Psychology
- Sociology
- Cultural Anthropology
● History
- Cultural Heritage
- History of Images and Documents
- History
● Japanese Studies
- Japanese Literature
- Japanese Linguistics / Applied
Japanese Linguistics
- Eurasian Languages and Cultures
● International Language and Cultures
- Comparative Culture Studies
- Literary Studies
- Linguistic and Cultural Studies
Education
● Elementary School Teacher
- Japanese Language Education
- Social Studies Education
- Mathematics Education
- Science Education
- Music Education
- Drawing and Handicraft Education
- Physical Education
- Home Economics Education
- Educational Science
- Educational Psychology
- Craft and Technology Education
- Elementary School English Education
● Junior High School Teacher
- Social Studies Education
- Mathematics Education
- Science Education
- Music Education
- Figurative Arts Education
- Education for Human Body and Sports
- Technology Education
- Home Economics Education
- English Education
- Educational Science
- Educational Psychology
- Information Technology Education
● Education of Children with
Special Needs
● Kindergarten Teachers
● School Health Nursing Teachers

Science
● ●
Mathematics and Informatics
- Algebra
- Geometry
- Analysis/Applied Analysis
- Probability and Statistics
- Mathematical Informatics
● Physics
- Elementary Particle Physics and
Astrophysics
- Quantum Many Body Physics
- Condensed Matter Physics
● Chemistry
- Fundamental Material Chemistry
- Functional Material Chemistry
● Biology
- Molecular and Cellular Biology
- Biodiversity and Evolutionary
- Biology
● Earth Sciences
- Earth Interior Sciences
- Earth Surface Sciences
- Environmental Remote Sensing
Engineering
● Architecture
- Architectural Design and Planning
- Design Theory
- History of Architecture and
Conservation on Historic Building
- Urban Design and
Regeneration/Conservation
- Construction and Project
Management (including traditional
timber )
- Building Environment
- Mechanical Systems
- Energy Saving Planning
- Structural Designand Materials
(steel & reinforced concrete)
- Earthquake
- Fire & Disaster-resistant Design
●
Urban Environment Systems
- Urban Planning and Design
- Urban Infrastructure Engineering
- Urban Environment Engineering
- Urban Information Engineering
● Design
- Product Development
- Information and Communication
- Environmental Humanomics
● Mechanical Engineering
- Science and Mechanics of
Materials and Processing
CHIBA UNIVERSITY . Information for International Students
- Manufacturing and Machine
Elements
- Systems Control and Biomechanical
Horticulture
Horticulture
Engineering
- Fluid and Thermal Energy - Horticultural Plant Production and
Conservation for Aerospace and Breeding
Global Environment - Environment Science for
● Medical System Engineering Bioproduction
- Biosignal Processing ● Applied Biological Chemistry
- Medical Imaging - Applied Biological Chemistry
- Medical Electronics ● Environmental Science and
- Bioinstrumentation and
Biomechatronics
Landscape Architecture
- Landscape Architecture
● Electrical and Electronics
- Landscape Science
Engineering
- Environmental and Human Health
- Waves and Circuits
Sciences
- Material Physics and Devices
● Food and Resource Economics
- Systems and Control
- Food and Resource Economics
- Information and
Telecommunications
● Materials science
- Physical Science and Technology
of Molecular-Based Materials and Medicine
Devices ● Medicine
- Physical Science and Technology
of Nanoscale Quantum Materials
and Devices
- Basic Theoretical Physics of
Nanoscale Materials and Devices
- Material science and engineering
for Image recording and display
Pharmaceutical
- Optical sciences for imaging Sciences
● Pharmacy
- Image analysis and evaluation
● Applied Chemistry and
- Clinical Pharmacy
- Life and Environmental Sciences
Biotechnology
● Pharmaceutical Sciences
- Biofunctional Chemistry
- Sustainable Organic Chemistry - Molecular-based Medicinal Sciences
- Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry - Drug Development and Life
- Chemistry for efficient Conversion Sciences
of Natural Resources
● Image Science
- Material science and engineering
for Image recording and display
- Optical sciences for imaging Nursing
- Image analysis and evaluation ●
Nursing
● Information Engineerigng
- Theoretical Nursing
- Computer Science
- Parent and Child Nursing
- Network
- Adult and Gerontological Nursing -
- VLSI Systems
Community Health Nursing
- Software
- Complex Systems
- Neuro Informatics
- Computer Vision
- Speech Processing
- Human Interface
- Color Vision
- Physics-Based Information and
Visual-Information Processing
- Color Imaging Systems Image
Sensing and Reproduction
04 . 05
Number of President
Vice-presidents /Auditors 6
1

staff Professors 441

2016 Associate Professors 472
Assistant Professors 418
Research Associates 4
Affiliated School Teachers 98
Kindergarten, Elementary School and Junior High School

Technical & Administrative Staff 1.925

65% from Univ. Hospital’s technical staff and clinical nurse

TOTAL 3,365

Enrollment College of Liberal arts & Sciences 151

Regular

90
Research

4
Others

57
2016
Letters 901 802 7 92
Education 1,977 1,870 4 103
Law, Politics and Economics 1,659 1,631 2 26
Science 924 911 6 7
Medicine 747 739 0 8
Pharmaceutical Sciences 442 435 2 5
Nursing 362 353 4 5
Engineering 3,110 3,020 46 44
Horticulture 88 851 11 18
TOTAL 11,153 10,702 86 365

Master Doctor Research Others

Enrollment Education 225 180 1 44

Postgraduate Science
Nursing
336
199
260
96
73
77 18
3 0
8
2016
Engineering 1,052 826 204 2 20
Horticulture 312 215 76 6 15
Humanities and Social Sciences 242 114 117 4 7
Advanced Integration Science 381 300 78 1 2
Medical and Pharmaceutical Sciences 783 167 574 23 19
Law School 78 78
TOTAL 3,608 2,158 1,199 58 193
International UnderGraduate Master Doctor Research Other TOTAL

Student 194 226 298 149 576 1,443

Enrollment
2015

ASIA EUROPE
India 1 1 2 4 8 U.K. 3 3
Indonesia 4 19 36 1 55 115 Italy 1 7 8
Cambodia 1 2 5 8 Greece 14 14
Singapore 1 2 3 Switzerland 3 3
Sri Lanka 1 2 1 4 Sweden 6 6
Thailand 1 16 4 62 83 Spain 1 1
Nepal 1 5 1 7 Tajikistan 1 1
Pakistan 1 1 2 Germany 1 1 39 41
Bangladesh 1 7 1 9 Hungary 1 1 2
Vietnam 5 6 4 4 7 26 Finland 1 1 12 14
Malaysia 14 2 5 22 43 France 1 2 11 14
Myanmar 2 1 3 Bulgaria 3 2 5
Mongolia 4 3 2 2 4 15 Belarus 1 1
Laos 1 2 3 Belgium 1 1

Taiwan 2 2 13 4 23 44 Morocco 1 1

Korea 63 16 23 3 16 121 Russia 1 2 5 8

China 90 166 140 114 183 693 NORTH AMERICA
Hong Kong 1 1 U.S.A. 4 16 20
MIDDLE EAST Canada 1 1
IsraIranel 7 1 1 9 CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
Turkey 1 1 1 20 23 Guatemala 1 1

Lebanon 1 1 Costa Rica 1 2 3

AFRICA Colombia 1 1
Egypt 2 2 Jamaica 1 1
Ethiopia 2 2 Chile 1 1 2
Ghana 1 1 Panama 6 6
Kenya 1 1 Dominica 1 1
Zimbabwe 1 1 2 Paraguay 1 1
Nigeria 1 1 2 Brazil 1 2 2 3 8
Mozambique 1 1 Peru 3 2 5

South Africa 1 1 Mexico 5 27 32

OCEANIA
Australia 5 5

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