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Department	Division	Degree Sought	Student Intake	Application Period	Timing of Admission Decision Notification	Course Start Date
Graduate School of Engineering	N/A	Doctoral	21			Oct.1982

The goal of the International Graduate Program in the Field of Civil Engineering and Infrastructure Studies at the Department of Civil Engineering is to prepare its graduating students to become future international leaders in the fields of infrastructure technology design, plan, disaster mitigation, and environmental management. Involvement in key projects in various academic fields and industries provides students with crucial experience and skills needed for developing and integrating the competencies necessary for participation on an international level in our expanding global world. Since 1982, the Department of Civil Engineering has been offering this program, and more than 800 international students from around 60 different countries have graduated.

In our Program, lectures and research supervision are given in English. Selection is made according to qualification based on submitted documents and the short-listed candidates are recommended to our partner scholarship organizations. All students are entitled to receive full scholarships and enroll as full-time graduate students upon arrival in Japan. Currently about 100 international graduate students are studying at the Department, almost as many as the number of Japanese graduate students of our department.

The Department has set up effective support systems provided by the Foreign Student Office (FSO) in English. FSO administrates all work related to application, enrollment, and administration procedures, and also supports the campus life of international students. The Department provides Japanese language classes, technical English class and the Civil Host Family Program for assisting international students in adjusting to social life inside and outside of the university. In addition, various activities are organized by the department, such as multi-cultural understanding workshops, Japanese and English speech contests, educational trips, a welcome party, and so on.

The Department encourages international graduate students to be policy makers in their country’s central and regional governments, leaders in international organizations, specialists in infrastructure planning, scientists in universities and institutes in their own home countries, as well as in Japan. Our alumni have been appointed to prominent positions at prestigious universities and institutes, the governments of their home countries, and renowned companies around the world. This Program provides opportunities to work in global and diverse academic contexts, access our network of more than 800 global alumni, and be involved in international collaboration.