Doctoral Programs

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

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.

Taught in English

The division of Biosphere Resource Science and Technology consists of a total of 18 professional disciplines including cooperative graduate school programs.

Taught in English & Japanese

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.

Taught in English & Japanese

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.

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.

Taught in English & Japanese

Taught in English

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.

Taught in English

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.

Taught in English