Gakushuin University

Not to be confused with Gakushūin, which operates this university.

Gakushūin University (学習院大学, Gakushūin Daigaku) is a private university in Mejiro, Toshima, Tokyo.

Gakushuin University

学習院大学
Former names	Gakushūjo (学習所); pre-war English translation: Peers School
Type	Private
Established	1847 in Kyoto and moved to Tokyo in 1877; reformed in 1949 as a private university
President	Ichiro Arakawa
Administrative staff	279 (full time only)[1]
Students	approx. 8,600
Undergraduates	approx. 8,000
Postgraduates	under 600
Other students	international students: about 120
Location	Toshima , Tokyo , Japan
Website	www.univ.gakushuin.ac.jp

The Gakushūin (or "Peers School") was established during the Meiji period to educate the children of the Japanese nobility, but back then the institution had only the primary and secondary education departments. The university was established after World War II as tertiary component of the reorganised and privatised Gakushūin School Corporation.

The university is still noted for its royal connections, with most of the members of the present Imperial Family among its alumni.^[2]

Faculties

Main gates, April 2015

• Faculty of Law
• Faculty of Economics
• Faculty of International Social Sciences
• Faculty of Letters
• Faculty of Science
• Graduate School of Law
• Graduate School of Political Science
• Graduate School of Economics
• Graduate School of Business Administration
• Graduate School of Humanities
• Graduate School of Science and Technology
• Law School

The university provides a range of Japanese-language classes for foreign students. Although designed for Japanese students, approximately 60 classes are held in English, mainly in the Faculty of International Social Sciences. Each year the university admits approximately 80 foreign students (including short-term exchange students) of high academic and social standing to study in each faculty and graduate school.^{[citation needed]}

Academic rankings

University rankings

WE [ja] National[3]	Employment	14
NBP Greater Tokyo[4][5]	Reputation	10
Shimano National[6]	Selectivity	A1
QS Asia (Asia version)[7]	General	161
ENSMP World[8]	Alumni	92
* The data of NBP is in 2009 rankings because of availability.

Program rankings

Social Sciences & Humanities
LAW

General rankings

The university was ranked 72nd in 2010 (63rd in 2009, 78th in 2008) in the Truly Strong Universities ranking issued by Toyo Keizai.^[9]

QS World University Rankings ranked Gakushuin University as 161st in Asia in 2010.^[7]

Research performance

Japanese national universities generally have higher standards of research than private universities. However, Gakushuin is one of the few private universities which competes with the top national universities. According to Quacquarelli Symonds, Gakushuin is the 6th-best research university in Japan and the 9th-best in Asia in terms of citations per paper.^[10]

Gakushuin is the highest-ranked Japanese university in the Nature Index measurement of research output quality.^[11]

Graduate school rankings

Gakushuin Law School was 24th in 2009 and 25th in 2010 in Japan on the basis of the number of its successful candidates for bar examination.^[12]

Alumni rankings

According to Yomiuri Weekly's 2008 rankings, alumni of Gakushuin have the 3rd best graduate prospectives among Japanese universities.^[13] Gakushuin was top in the rankings of the Finance and Tourism industries.^[13]

École des Mines de Paris ranked Gakushuin University as 92nd in the world in 2010 in terms of the number of alumni listed among CEOs in the 500 largest worldwide companies.^[14][8]

Popularity and selectivity

Gakushuin had 7.58 applicants per place (13,765/1,815) in the 2011 undergraduate admissions.^[15] Its entrance exams are also selective.^[16][17][18]

Notable alumni

Imperial House of Japan

• Emperor Akihito - 125th Emperor of Japan
• Emperor Naruhito - 126th Emperor of Japan, eldest son and heir of Emperor Akihito
• Fumihito, Prince Akishino - younger son of Emperor Akihito
• Kiko, Princess Akishino - wife of the Prince Akishino
• Sayako, Princess Nori - daughter of Emperor Akihito
• Masahito, Prince Hitachi - brother of Emperor Akihito
• Atsuko, Princess Yori - sister of Emperor Akihito
• Prince Tomohito of Mikasa - son of the Prince Mikasa
• Princess Akiko of Mikasa - daughter of Prince Tomohito
• Princess Yōko of Mikasa - daughter of Prince Tomohito
• Yoshihito, Prince Katsura - son of the Prince Mikasa
• Norihito, Prince Takamado - son of the Prince Mikasa
• Princess Noriko of Takamado - daughter of the Prince Takamado
• Princess Yasuko of Mikasa - daughter of the Prince Mikasa
• Princess Masako of Mikasa - daughter of the Prince Mikasa
• Aiko, Princess Toshi - daughter of Emperor Naruhito

House of Yi

• Lieutenant General Prince Imperial Ui Min
• Prince Yi Geon of Korea
• Prince Yi Gu of Korea
• Prince Yi Kang of Korea
• Prince Yi U of Korea
• Princess Deokhye of Korea

Politics

• Tarō Asō, former Prime Minister of Japan and current Vice President of LDP
• Michihiko Kano, former Minister of Agriculture
• Yoshinobu Shimamura, former Minister and Diet Representative
• Hisaoki Kamei, Diet Representative
• Akiko Kamei, Diet Representative
• Keiko Nagaoka, Diet Representative
• Yasuko Ikenobo, former Diet Representative

Arts and entertainment

• Hayao Miyazaki, director, animator, and mangaka

• Yoko Ono, singer and songwriter
• Yukio Mishima, novelist
• Shiono Nanami, novelist
• Marina Inoue, voice actress
• Tetsuya Kakihara, voice actor
• Hiroyuki Namba, musician
• Akiko Kobayashi, singer
• Akira Yoshimura, author
• Yoshiki Tanaka, author
• Yoshihiko Funazaki, author
• Kuniko Asagi, TV presenter
• Mona Yamamoto, TV announcer
• Satomi Ton, author
• Toshiyuki Hosokawa, actor
• Kiyoshi Kodama, TV personality
• Yūka Sugai, singer, member of Sakurazaka46^[19]

Others

• Ryosuke Mizumachi, basketball player
• Yoshiki Kuroda, urban designer
• Tokugawa Tsunenari, head of Tokugawa clan
• Yuki Kawauchi, runner

References

1. "公表情報コーナー：専任教員数：大学概要：学習院大学". Archived from the original on 2012-04-17. Retrieved 2011-05-01.
2. "これからの学習院". Archived from the original on 2011-08-23. Retrieved 2011-05-01.
3. "Employment rate in 400 major companies rankings" (in Japanese). Weekly Economist. 2011. Retrieved April 29, 2011.
4. "Nikkei BP Brand rankings of Japanese universities" (in Japanese). Nikkei Business Publications. 2010. Retrieved April 29, 2011.
5. "Nikkei BP Brand rankings of Japanese universities" (in Japanese). Nikkei Business Publications. 2009. Retrieved April 29, 2011.
6. "GBUDU University Rankings" (in Japanese). YELL books. 2009. Retrieved April 29, 2011.
7. "QS World University Rankings: Asia 2025". QS Quacquarelli Symonds Limited. 2025. Retrieved November 6, 2024.
8. "ENSMP World University Rankings" (PDF). École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris. 2011. Retrieved April 29, 2011.
9. "Truly Strong Universities" (in Japanese). Toyo Keizai. 2010. Retrieved April 29, 2011.
10. "2019 Top Global Universities for Neuroscience and Behavior | Rankings of Best Universities for Neuroscience and Behavior in the World by US News P2/4- Education Rankings".
11. Hornyak, Tim (2018). "Noble halls of discovery". Nature. 555 (7697): S73. Bibcode:2018Natur.555T....H. doi:10.1038/d41586-018-02903-4. ISSN 0028-0836. Gakushuin ranks first among all Japanese universities in the Nature Index for its high-quality research output relative to its total number of natural science articles in the Scopus database. To achieve this, between 2012 and 2017, the university accrued a weighted fractional count of 42 for its authorship of papers in the index, out of 452 natural science papers tracked by Scopus.
12. "2010年(平成22年)新司法試験法科大学院別合格率ランキング -法科大学院seek-".
13. "学習院大学 | 受験生の保護者の皆様へ | 就職について（就職力ランキング）". www.gakushuin.ac.jp. Archived from the original on August 19, 2010.
14. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-20. Retrieved 2011-04-29.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
15. "一般入学試験志願者数速報：入試情報(受験生の方)：学習院大学". Archived from the original on 2019-04-17. Retrieved 2011-05-01.
16. National and Public universities apply different kinds of exams, so it's only comparable between universities in the same category.
17. e.g. Yoyogi seminar published Hensachi (the indication showing the entrance difficulties by prep schools) rankings "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-04-22. Retrieved 2016-07-29.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
18. Japanese journalist Kiyoshi Shimano ranks its entrance difficulty as A1 (2nd most selective/out of 11 scales) in Japan. 危ない大学・消える大学 2012年版 (in Japanese). YELL books. 2011. ASIN 4753930181.
19. "学生生活🎓 | 欅坂46 菅井 友香 公式ブログ" [A Student's Life]. 欅坂46公式サイト. Retrieved 2018-11-02.

External links

• Official website

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