"JSPS External Review Report" was issued.(PDF File 1.22MB)

Research System at UniversitiesThe most basic organizations for education and research at universitiesinvolve undergraduate departments, and graduate school departments. Ingeneral, both students and teaching staff and researchers belong to these.From the standpoint of the system for research, graduate schools can besaid to play a particularly important role as nexuses of high level educationand research, including such aspects as the fostering of independentresearchers, and the development and maintenance of successors toresearch projects.With regard to the actual state of establishment of graduate schools, andtheir scale, distinctive features are discernible according to each and everyestablishing groups. For example, the rate of establishment is 100% fornational universities, 76% for public universities, approximately 68 % forprivate universities (looking at graduate schools that have programs up tothe doctoral courses, the proportion is 81% for national universities, 47% forpublic universities, and approximately 50% for private universities). Further,with regard to the total number of students, private universities hold 77% ofundergraduate students, and national universities hold 62% of postgraduatestudents (roughly 71% of postgraduate students enrolled in the doctoralprogram). The proportion of postgraduate students with regard to number ofundergraduate students is, in national universities, 28.7%, in publicuniversities 11.0%, and in private universities 8.7%.No.ofunivsNo. of universities and studentsUniversitieswithgraduateschoolsUniversitieswithdoctoralcoursesUndergraduatestudentnumbersMastersstudentnumbersDoctoralstudentnumbersRatio ofpostgraduatetoundergraduatestudentsNational 99 99 80 466,341 87,687 46,406 28.7%universitiesPublic74 56 35 97,453 7,215 3,540 11.0%universitiesPrivate 496 339 247 1,923,339 55,895 15,579 3.7%universitiesUniversity 1 0 0 n.a. 0 0of the AirTotal 670 494 362 2,487,133 150,797 65,525 8.7%(As at May 1, 2001. “Statistical Abstract 2002 edition,”)78