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Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST)

Nomi, Ishikawa, Japan
Founded 1990
International 490
Core campuses 1

University overview

JAIST was founded in 1990 as Japan's first independent national graduate school for science and technology, and it still awards only master's and doctoral degrees — there is no undergraduate faculty. Teaching and research sit on one campus at Nomi in Ishikawa, organised into three schools: Knowledge Science, Information Science and Materials Science. Roughly two in five degree students are international, and a master's can be completed entirely in English: every compulsory course on the Ishikawa campus is offered in English as well as Japanese.

Academic scale

1 Graduate School of Advanced Science and Technology — JAIST has no undergraduate faculty
3 Schools: Knowledge Science, Information Science and Materials Science
2 Divisions: Advanced Science and Technology, and Transdisciplinary Sciences (joint with Kanazawa University)

Global community

490 international students of 1,150, as of 1 May 2026 — 472 on degree programmes plus 18 research students
22 countries and regions represented, led by China, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Thailand and Indonesia
1,132 degree students — 747 master's and 385 doctoral, as of 1 May 2026 (JAIST publishes the parts, not the total)

Core campuses

Ishikawa Campus The whole of JAIST as a university: all three schools, the library, the Health Care Center and all 629 units of student housing, on a hill in Ishikawa Science Park 20 km from Kanazawa. Free shuttles run to Tsurugi and Komatsu stations.

More facts

1990 founded in October as Japan's first independent national graduate school for science and technology
41.7% of degree students are international — computed from JAIST's own sub-totals, which it publishes without a percentage
¥535,800 annual tuition for AY2026, with a ¥282,000 admission fee and a ¥30,000 screening fee; no revision announced
University figures verified 8 Sep 2026

Funding

1 external scholarship names 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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