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Department	Division	Degree Sought	Student Intake	Application Period	Timing of Admission Decision Notification	Course Start Date
Graduate School of Environmental Studies	N/A	Doctoral	limited			Oct.2006

"Special Doctoral Graduate Program of Sciences of Atmosphere and Hydrosphere for International Students" set up on October 1, 2006 is a course supported by "The International Priority Graduate Programs (PGP)" at the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Graduate School of Environmental Studies (DES). The degree of "Doctor of Science" or "Doctor of Environmental Studies" can be awarded to the student who completes this course. This course accepts five students a year. The course is specially designed for the international students, who research enthusiastically the environments in the Asian region from the aspect of the Atmospheric and Hydrospheric Sciences. This program provides two schemes; the professional research training for next generation's researchers, and cross-disciplinary education for getting the knowledge of various environment fields. The professional research training is charged by the international-level professors in the fields of the Atmospheric and Hydrospheric Sciences that encompass fundamental discrepancies in the fields of environmental variation, climate science, biogeochemistry, radiation and life sciences, and global water cycle. The professors in the field of the earth and planetary sciences in DES cooperate in the professional education which is necessary in advancing the Atmospheric and Hydrospheric Sciences. The professors in the Department of Environmental Engineering and Architecture and the Department of Social and Human Environment in DES also take part in it, and the specialty that widely extends to the science, engineering, and the humanities sociology are educated. Such a inter-disciplinary education aims to promote the ability to understand systematically the structure of environmental problems in the Asia region, to make the best use of the specialty for the solution. The students who have been awarded doctoral degree of Science or Environment Studies take an active part in the international community in the various fields of the Atmospheric and Hydrospheric Sciences and relevant fields as next generation's researchers, for example, in key research institutes and universities in home or other countries as well as international organizations.