🇯🇵 1,175 institutions · 47 prefectures
Every university in Japan, from the ministry's own register.
825 universities, 292 junior colleges and 58 colleges of technology, prefecture by prefecture — with which are national, public or private, and what the national ones are allowed to charge.
Universities 大学
2,972,412
students at 812 institutions (85 national, 103 public, 624 private), 1 May 2025.
Junior colleges 短期大学
71,196
students at 292 institutions (0 national, 14 public, 278 private), 1 May 2025.
Colleges of technology 高等専門学校
56,277
students at 58 institutions (51 national, 3 public, 4 private), 1 May 2025.
Not published
偏差値
“Hensachi” entry scores are private exam-company estimates, not official data — so they aren't here.
What it costs
Japan's 85 national universities charge tuition against a standard set by ministerial ordinance: ¥535,800 a year for an undergraduate, plus a ¥282,000 admission fee. Each may go up to 120% of the standard (¥642,960), and some now do. Public and private universities set their own fees, and no official source publishes them per institution.
If you are coming from abroad, don't budget on the standard. Since April 2024 the same ordinance lets a national university set separate tuition, admission and exam fees for international students on a student visa, outside both the standard and the 120% cap. Check the specific university's fees for international students before you apply.
Source: 国立大学等の授業料その他の費用に関する省令 (in force 2024-04-01), Articles 2, 10, 11 and 13 (Article 13 requires universities to offer full or partial waivers on financial hardship).
Browse by prefecture
Each prefecture page lists every university, junior college and college of technology in it.
Hokkaido
Chubu
The 85 national universities
The state-funded universities that charge the ordinance fee. Names link to each university's website.
- Asahikawa Medical University · Hokkaido
- Muroran Institute of Technology · Hokkaido
- Otaru University of Commerce · Hokkaido
- Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine · Hokkaido
- Hokkaido University of Education · Hokkaido
- Hokkaido University · Hokkaido
- Kitami Institute of Technology · Hokkaido
- Hirosaki University · Aomori
- Iwate University · Iwate
- Miyagi University of Education · Miyagi
- Tohoku University · Miyagi
- Akita University · Akita
- Yamagata University · Yamagata
- Fukushima University · Fukushima
- Ibaraki University · Ibaraki
- National University Corporation Tsukuba University of Technology · Ibaraki
- University of Tsukuba · Ibaraki
- Utsunomiya University · Tochigi
- Gunma University · Gunma
- Saitama University · Saitama
- Chiba University · Chiba
- Ochanomizu University · Tokyo
- Hitotsubashi University · Tokyo
- National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies · Tokyo · graduate only
- University of Electro-Communications · Tokyo
- 東京科学大学 · Tokyo
- Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology · Tokyo
- Tokyo University of Foreign Studies · Tokyo
- Tokyo Gakugei University · Tokyo
- Tokyo University of the Arts · Tokyo
- University of Tokyo · Tokyo
- Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology · Tokyo
- Yokohama National University · Kanagawa
- Graduate University for Advanced Studies · Kanagawa · graduate only
- Joetsu University of Education · Niigata
- Niigata University · Niigata
- Nagaoka University of Technology · Niigata
- University of Toyama · Toyama
- Kanazawa University · Ishikawa
- Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology · Ishikawa · graduate only
- University of Fukui · Fukui
- University of Yamanashi · Yamanashi
- Shinshu University · Nagano
- Gifu University · Gifu
- Shizuoka University · Shizuoka
- Hamamatsu University School of Medicine · Shizuoka
- Aichi University of Education · Aichi
- Toyohashi University of Technology · Aichi
- Nagoya Institute of Technology · Aichi
- Nagoya University · Aichi
- Mie University · Mie
- Shiga University of Medical Science · Shiga
- Shiga University · Shiga
- Kyoto University of Education · Kyoto
- Kyoto Institute of Technology · Kyoto
- Kyoto University · Kyoto
- Osaka Kyoiku University · Osaka
- University of Osaka · Osaka
- Kobe University · Hyogo
- Hyogo University of Teacher Education · Hyogo
- Nara University of Education · Nara
- Nara Women's University · Nara
- Nara Institute of Science and Technology · Nara · graduate only
- Wakayama University · Wakayama
- Tottori University · Tottori
- Shimane University · Shimane
- Okayama University · Okayama
- Hiroshima University · Hiroshima
- Yamaguchi University · Yamaguchi
- University of Tokushima · Tokushima
- Naruto University of Education · Tokushima
- Kagawa University · Kagawa
- Ehime University · Ehime
- Kōchi University · Kochi
- Kyushu Institute of Technology · Fukuoka
- Kyushu University · Fukuoka
- University of Teacher Education Fukuoka · Fukuoka
- Saga University · Saga
- Nagasaki University · Nagasaki
- Kumamoto University · Kumamoto
- Oita University · Oita
- University of Miyazaki · Miyazaki
- National Institute of Fitness and Sports in Kanoya · Kagoshima
- Kagoshima University · Kagoshima
- University of the Ryukyus · Okinawa
What Japan doesn't publish
Per-university data does exist — the government-backed 大学ポートレート (University Portraits) database holds enrolment, admissions and graduate destinations — but its terms grant no right to reuse it, so none of it is here. The official School Basic Survey is published only as national and prefectural totals. That is why this is a directory, not a matcher: no per-university fees outside the national standard, no official entry scores, and no open graduate outcomes.
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Source: 文部科学省ホームページ — 学校コード一覧 (MEXT school code register, May 2026) and 令和7年度学校基本調査 (School Basic Survey 2025), reused under the MEXT website terms. English names, founding years, websites and enrolment figures from Wikidata (CC0), which is community-maintained.