Formally established in 1949, Kobe University is a national university based in western Japan. Its roots date back further, to 1902, when it was originally known as Kobe Higher Commercial School. Today, Kobe University is one of Japan’s leading comprehensive universities with 10 faculties and schools, 15 graduate schools and a great number of research centers and institutions.

Taking advantage of our traditional strengths in the social sciences combined with more recent initiatives across the natural and biomedical sciences, Kobe University is promoting interdisciplinary research and education to become an outstanding research university. We are committed to creating knowledge and new values to address the challenges facing our society.

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The Department of Agricultural Engineering and Socio-Economics carries out education and research with the aim of systemizing the agricultural production process and creating socio-economic systems that can contribute to solving issues concerning food and the environment. The Department has two divisions: the Division of Agricultural Engineering and the Division of Food and Environmental Economics.

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Bachelor in Agricultural Engineering and Socio-Economics

The Department of Agrobioscience aims to utilize knowledge obtained through analyzing phenomena related to the natural environment and living organisms from biology- and chemistry-based perspectives. We produce human resources with the specialist knowledge, abilities and a sense of ethics necessary to understand and analyze a variety of phenomena from the molecular and cellular levels to the ecosystem level.

Bachelor in Agrobioscience

Architecture is one of the most universal fields of learning, concerning the creation of housing and living facilities that are essential for human life. In order to respond to contemporary global problems, it is necessary not only to study the basic fields of architecture (design and planning, structural engineering, and environmental engineering) but to combine these fields in response to spatial design issues.

Bachelor in Architecture

‘What is life?’ is a fundamental question that still lacks a satisfactory answer. The development of basic biological science that started in the 20th century has enabled the study of living organisms from various perspectives and has changed our conceptions regarding “life”. Nowadays, life is observed and studied at diverse levels from molecules to ecosystems.

Bachelor in Biology

Animals and plants are essential bioresources that provide the key to humanity’s survival. The Department of Bioresource Science provides education and research on animals, plants and microorganisms and their mutual relationships from the genetic to the ecosystem level. This also includes the efficient management and utilization of bioresources for sustainable food production and safe food supply. This Department has two divisions, the Division of Animal Science and the Division of Plant Science.

Bachelor in Bioresource Science

The mission of the Department of Chemical Science and Engineering is to foster the next generation of researchers and engineers in chemical engineering on a global scale. This will be achieved through education and research that meets the needs of industry and society. The research and educational activities in our department cover the fields of fundamental science on the microscopic and molecular level, the application of functionality to chemicals and materials, engineering applications of biofunctional materials, and process development in industrial scale material production.

Bachelor in Chemical Science and Engineering

Bachelor of Agricultural Engineering and Socio-Economics

Aiming to realize a shared global society through training the next generation, this department fosters primary-level educators with a broad, inclusive perspective of global society and the skills to recognize and practically solve issues among children and schools from multiple viewpoints. The department has established two academic courses to achieve these aims.

Bachelor of Arts in Child Education

The educational goal of this department is to foster leaders who can communicate skillfully across national borders and solve current issues surrounding multicultural societies and cultural conflicts. In order to achieve this, we have established the following three academic programs that respectively focused on these three key terms: culture, society and communication.

Bachelor of Arts in Global Cultures

The Faculty of Letters explores the field of humanities, inquiring into cultural frameworks that mankind has created, and pondering their meanings by going back to their roots. What is a human being? How has mankind shaped its long history? How have humans exercised their imaginative abilities to create literature and arts?

Bachelor of Arts in Humanities

The Department of Computer and Systems Engineering is formed of specialist modules focused on core, advanced and interdisciplinary studies.By combining fundamental and specialist knowledge, we equip students with the ability to solve a wide range of technological issues in this high-information society.

Bachelor of Computer and Systems Engineering

One of the longest-standing centers of economics research in Japan, the Faculty of Economics of Kobe University has the largest number of fields of research and faculty members among the national universities in the Kansai area and in Japan.

Bachelor of Economics

Training human resources who will use science and technology to manage intercontinental global transportation systems. This Department works in collaboration with the Faculty of Engineering and the Department of Information Science, as well as offering courses in economics, business administration and law.

Bachelor of Global Transportation Sciences

This is a balanced curriculum incorporating mechanical engineering, electrical and electronic engineering, and environmental sciences. The Ship Management Course trains marine engineers for large vessels, and the Mechatronics Course teaches the theory of component technology related to heat, materials, fluids, and environment.

Bachelor of Marine Engineering

Physics is a field of study which explores the principles of nature. It is an important academic field that provides the foundation for many applied sciences. The research subjects extend over a very wide range: from the most basic particles constituting matter (elementary particles), to atoms and molecules, liquids and solids which are composed of atoms and molecules, and the structure of the universe.

Bachelor of Physics

Chemistry explores the structures, properties, interactions, and transformation of materials. In recent years, chemistry has evolved to incorporate various areas of science, and its target materials have expanded from conventional substances to those relating to the ocean, the atmosphere, and the cosmos.

Bachelor of Science in Chemistry

Mathematics is both old and new. Traditionally, research in mathematics is the study of numbers and spaces: numbers such as the natural numbers 1, 2, 3, etc that everyone is familiar with, and spaces such as the 3-dimensional space that we see around us. From a modern viewpoint, one can argue that mathematics is still about numbers and spaces, but then one would have to widen the interpretation of "numbers" and "spaces" to include the great variety of forms that numbers and spaces have recently evolved into. This is what mathematical research has become.

Bachelor of Science in Mathematics

Since we are dealing with a wide variety of natural phenomena from the core of the earth to the edge of the solar system, we want our students not only to acquire the wide knowledge and skills related to planetology, but also to develop broad viewpoints, creativity, and originality, allowing them to think outside the existing frameworks.

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