Doctoral Programs
Doctoral Program in Advanced Agricultural Technology and Sciences
The doctoral program in Advanced Agricultural Technology and Sciences aims to supervise students who intend to advance their studies in master's programs and provide such human resources as mentioned above to meet these requirement, covering such areas as field informatics, crop production management systems, the functions and regulation of animal production, crop genomic breeding, fruit tree physiology and genomics, and the development and utilization of ornamental plants.
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Doctoral Program in Appropriate Technology and Science for Sustainable Development
The Appropriate Technology and Science for Sustainable Development program aims to realize the sustainable and stable society. We believe that sustainable and stable society in 21st century will be established by creating and maintaining eco-regions in which ecological cycling systems, resource cycling systems and economic cycling systems are matched and in harmony with each other.
Taught in English & Japanese
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Doctoral Program in Arid Land Resources Science
We welcome international students to join this 3-years Doctoral Course aimed at solving climate changes, food, water and/or other biological resources shortage-related problems, by conducting research-oriented work in the laboratory, as well as field work on arid or semi-arid lands.
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Doctoral Program in Bioindustrial Science
Doctoral Program of Bioindustrial Sciences features education aimed at cultivating doctorate holders capable of working as practitioners involved in the sustainable development, improvement and technological development of life sciences focused on food, resources and energy development and environmental conservation technology, to which great importance is attached in the 21st century.
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Doctoral Program in Biological Sciences
The chief aim of the Doctoral Program in Biological Sciences is to train good scientists and professionals who have research ability and scholarship to achieve creative study. The core of the Biological Sciences Doctoral Program is basic biology.
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Doctoral Program in Biosphere Resource Science and Technology
The division of Biosphere Resource Science and Technology consists of a total of 18 professional disciplines including cooperative graduate school programs.
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Doctoral Program in Earth Evolution Sciences
The common tasks of the Earth Evolution Sciences program are to decode the co-evolutional history of the earth,life and the environment from the birth of our planet up to present, and to forecast quantitatively the relation between geosphere and biosphere. In order to achieve these goals,the program is organized into six ordinary fields and one cooperative graduate school system with National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology.
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Doctoral Program in Geoenvironmental Sciences
The Geoenvironmental Sciences program aims at exploring the natural scientific process and the mechanism of the geoenvironmental changes from the temporal and spatial point of view, and synthetically elucidating the changing geoenvironmental conditions icluding the impact on human activities. This program involves human geography , regional geography, geomorphology, hydrological science, atmospheric science, geographical information science , terrestrial water cycle system and atmospheric-ocean interaction system.
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Doctoral Program in Integrative Environment and Biomass Sciences
The global environment is recognized as the common heritage of humankind and all life is dependent upon it. In the 21st century, the fate of the global environment has a critical issue in both in developed and developing countries throughout the world. To sustain the global environment, they are crucial not only to produce carbon-neutral/renewable energy resources as the countermeasures for global warming, but also to develop the effective technique and management policy for conserving the high-quality water resources. As the former target, biodiesel produced from microalgae has called forth interest of economic and scientific actors, and the appropriate management of landscapes and water purification systems are essential for the latter target. This program aims at tackling both targets parallelly and harmonizely to show the promising scenario for sustainable global and local societies.
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Doctoral Program in International Public Policy
The Program in International Public Policy consists of two fields: International Relations and Sociology. This program provides comprehensive curriculum to graduate students for their research capacity building through a professional as well as an interdisciplinary approach in each field. The objective of this program is to educate students by promoting and upgrading their research capacity to an international level and their practical knowledge for framing problems and finding solutions in the area of international public policy.
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Doctoral Program in Life Sciences and Bioengineering
This program aims to conduct leading education and research in the clarification of functions in organisms and the development of their functions.
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Doctoral Program in Sustainable Environment Studies
This program accepts students who have obtained a master’s degree or its equivalent in a related field. This program accepts students via general examination, cooperative graduate school examination, foreign student examination, career student examination and examination for the international collaborative program of environmental sciences and undertakes advanced professional development and education of environmental practitioners. Applicants from either humanities or the sciences may be admitted to this program, if they have the academic ability and wish to pursue environmental science which focuses on social contribution and the practical resolution of environmental problems.
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International Agricultural Sciences Program
The International Agricultural Sciences is a multidisciplinary doctoral program focusing on agricultural topics deal with appropriate technology and sciences for sustainable development, biosphere resource science and technology, life science and bioengineering, and bioindustrial sciences.
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International Doctoral Program in Medical Sciences
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Materials Science and Engineering Course
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Ph.D Program in Empowerment Informatics
In a world where surgeons rely on high-tech robots to help guide their scalpels and wholesalers use intelligent software agents to negotiate contracts, multidisciplinary skills are essential. And that’s just what students are being equipped with through the University of Tsukuba’s PhD Program in Empowerment Informatics, which combines cutting-edge research in arts, business and medical science into a new field aimed at overcoming human constraints through more seamless connections with technology.
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Ph.D Program in Human Biology
Creating a new product to reduce smoke inhalation from cooking stoves in the recently independent Southeast Asian nation of East Timor is not what most people would expect in postgraduate course. But that’s exactly what Kouta Niizuma did during his overseas placement when he signed up for the PhD Program in Human Biology (HBP) at the University of Tsukuba.
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Ph.D Program in Life Science Innovation
The Life Science Innovation Program offers degrees in the research fields - Disease Mechanism, Drug Discovery, Food Innovation and Environmental Management. What makes this program unique is that the students will be provided with academic background and at the same time, gain technical expertise through internships at different national and private institution in Tsukuba City. The knowledge gained on the field of specialization will help them find innovative approaches that are cross-disciplinary and create synergies between these fields.
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