Graduate education at Kyushu University is handled at graduate school level (equivalent to a research department in other universities). (For details of this system, please see the section entitled “Graduate school/faculty system”). Subjects taught jointly by more than one graduate school are taught in joint lectures available to all graduate schools, which is one of the unique features of the University’s graduate education. (For further details, please see the section entitled “KIKAN Education for Graduate Schools”)

Kyushu University’s graduate education includes 20 graduate schools and four professional graduate programs. The degrees offered include master’s degrees (for students completing the first part of a doctoral course or fulfilling the equivalent requirements of a master's course within an integrated doctoral program) and doctoral degrees (for students completing the second part of a doctoral course (three-year program), an integrated doctoral course (five-year program), or a doctoral course (four-year program). In the professional graduate programs, students can be awarded a master’s degree (professional) or a Doctor of Law (professional).

Graduate Educational Courses

*1 Years noted here are the standard number of years required
*2 Standard years of study for professional degree courses is two years (three in the case of Law School courses)