Character of NAIST

Diversity in Student Acceptance

1. The university accepts a broad range of students including persons with enthusiasm actively involved in study or research activities and researchers or engineers currently active in society without being bound to a specialty field.
• Admission Capacity and Course Capacity
• Number of Entering Students and Applicants
2. The Entrance Examination is held 3 times a year
• Conditions of admission by Entrance Examination
3. There is no written test but it consists instead primarily of a general assessment based on interviews, survey reports, etc.

Entrance Examination Q&A

• Graduate School of Information Science
• Graduate School of Biological Sciences>
• Graduate School of Materials Science
4. Curriculum development compatible with students entering from diverse fields (basic courses, introductory courses, etc., wide-reaching lectures, seminars, problem-based research)

Syllabus

• Graduate School of Information Science
• Graduate School of Biological Sciences
• Graduate School of Materials Science
5. Flexible curriculum management
   (multiple faculty guidance system, exchange of credits with other universities, research guidance consignment, semester system)