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Hiroshima University

Higashi-Hiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan
#481 QS World University Rankings 2027
QS World University Rankings 2027 #481
Founded 1949
International 1,933
Core campuses 3

University overview

Hiroshima University was founded in 1949 by merging eight institutions, and moved its main campus out to a 250-hectare site at Kagamiyama in Higashi-Hiroshima through the 1980s and 1990s. It keeps two campuses in the city itself: Kasumi for medicine, dentistry and pharmacy with the region's largest teaching hospital, and Higashi-Senda for law and evening economics, on the site of its original post-war home. Its English-taught teaching — three undergraduate programmes and the international development and cooperation programmes formerly run by IDEC — is all at Higashi-Hiroshima, and pays the same tuition as everything else.

Academic scale

12 undergraduate schools and four graduate schools, across three campuses in and around Hiroshima
15,734 students as of 1 May 2026 — 10,843 undergraduate and 4,873 graduate

Global community

1,933 international students from 92 countries and regions, as of 1 May 2026

Three core campuses

Higashi-Hiroshima Campus The main campus, about 250 hectares at Kagamiyama, 15 minutes by bus from JR Saijo. It carries eight of the twelve undergraduate schools and every English-taught programme Hiroshima runs.
Kasumi Campus The health-sciences campus in Hiroshima City, with the Schools of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Hiroshima University Hospital, the largest teaching hospital in the Chugoku region.
Higashi-Senda Campus The city-centre campus on the site of the university's original post-war home, carrying the School of Law, the evening course of the School of Economics, and the Center for Peace.

More facts

¥535,800 a year in tuition with a ¥282,000 admission fee — the Japanese national standard rate. Hiroshima's English-taught programmes pay exactly the same as its Japanese-taught ones; there is no premium.
The Graduate School for International Development and Cooperation (IDEC) has not admitted students since April 2020. Its teaching now runs as four programmes of the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences.
University figures verified 8 Sep 2026

Funding

2 external scholarships name this university among their designated schools.

This university’s own scholarships and tuition reductions are not listed here — the source excludes them. Check the university directly.

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