Colleges and universities in Japan are the seats of higher learning. Colleges and universities in Japan provide quality education to its students. With three million students registered in more than 700 colleges and universities, Japan's educational structure is one of the largest higher educational systems across the world. More than 85% among all students receive graduate degree from high schools while about 39% students acquire degrees from junior colleges or university.
The formal higher education institutions of Japan are broadly classified into Junior Colleges, Colleges of Technology, Special Training Schools and highly advanced Universities. The Junior colleges and the Colleges of Technology mainly focus on the development of the student's ability to become employed and to award them with associate degrees.The prime aspiration of Japanese Universities is to offer the students and junior scholars vast knowledge and to award them with bachelor's degree or doctoral degrees.
The most unique trait of the Japanese Educational system is its entrance test. So as to pass entrance tests to the best educational institutes, numerous learners and applicants go to particular training schools. These training schools are popular as ‘juku”.
Some of the most eminent Colleges and Universities in Japan are as following:
- Hachinohe Institute of Technology
- Gunma University
- Hiroshima City University
- Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
- Institute of Industrial Science
- Fukuoka Junior College of Technology
- Hiroshima University
- Doshisha University
- Hokkaido University of Education
- Hiroshima Shudo University
- Ehime University
- Fukushima Medical College
- Hiroshima-Denki Institute of Technology
- Dokkyo University School of Medicine
- Fukushima University
- Hiroshima Institute of Technology
- Fujita Health University
- Hitotsubashi University
- Fukuoka Institute of Technology
- Hokkaido University
- International University of Japan
- Hirosaki University
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