Hokkaido University

Hokkaido University, usually shortened to Hokudai, is a national research university in Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan, founded in 1876 as the Sapporo Agricultural College and chartered in 1918 as one of the former Imperial Universities of Japan.北海道大学（简称「北大」）是位于日本北海道札幌市的国立研究型综合大学，1876 年以札幌农学校之名创立，1918 年升格为旧帝国大学之一。

A member of the National Seven Universities, it runs twelve undergraduate faculties and twenty-one graduate schools, enrols 18,362 students as of 2017, carries the motto Boys, Be Ambitious, and places 179th in the 2027 QS World University Rankings.学校为国立七大学成员，设 12 个学部与 21 个研究科，2017 年在校学生 18,362 人，以「少年よ、大志を抱け」为校训，在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列第 179。

History

• The history of the university dates to the development of Hokkaido, when the Kaitakushi, or Hokkaido Development Commission, was established in 1869 and looked to the American model of settling the new lands.学校历史可追溯至北海道开发：1869 年日本设立开拓使，并借鉴美国经验经营新土。

• A Kaitakushi tentative school was placed at Zojoji temple in Shiba, Tokyo, in March 1872 and opened that April.1872 年 3 月，开拓使临时学校设于东京芝增上寺内，同年 4 月开校。

• In July 1875 the school moved to Sapporo and was renamed the Sapporo School, holding its opening ceremony in September.1875 年 7 月，学校迁往札幌并改名札幌学校，同年 9 月举行开校式。

• In March 1876 a contract was signed with William S. Clark, president of the Massachusetts Agricultural College, to serve as vice-principal of a new agricultural college, and in July Clark arrived in Sapporo with the teachers Wheeler and Penhallow and eleven students.1876 年 3 月，学校与马萨诸塞农科大学校长 William S. Clark 签约，聘其出任新设农学校教头；同年 7 月，Clark 偕 Wheeler、Penhallow 两位教师及 11 名学生抵达札幌。

• In August 1876 the Sapporo School was renamed the Sapporo Agricultural College, holding its opening ceremony on 14 August, now the university's founding anniversary, and in September Zusho Hirotake took office as its first president while Clark remained the de facto leader.1876 年 8 月，札幌学校改名札幌农学校，14 日举行开校式（今本校开学纪念日）；9 月，调所广丈（Zusho Hirotake）出任首任校长，Clark 博士为实质负责人。

• The college pioneered modern agricultural education in Japan as the country's first institution to award bachelor's degrees and its first to teach mainly in English, opening with 24 students and five faculty members.札幌农学校是日本第一所颁授学士学位、第一所以英语为主要教学语言的学校，开日本近代农林教育先河，首届学生 24 人、教师 5 人。

• In April 1877 Clark left Sapporo after only eight months, and staff and students on horseback saw him off at Ishimatsu, present-day Kitahiroshima, where his parting words became the university motto.1877 年 4 月，Clark 在札幌仅八个月后归国，全校师生骑马相送至于岛松（今北广岛市），其临别赠言后成为本校校训。

• In June 1878 the college held its first recreational festival and in October completed the drill hall that survives today as the Sapporo Clock Tower, and the first graduation ceremony was held in July 1880.1878 年 6 月，学校举办首次游艺会，同年 10 月演武场竣工，即今札幌市时计台；1880 年 7 月举行首次毕业典礼。

• Clark died in Amherst, Massachusetts, in March 1886 at the age of 60, and the college botanical garden was completed that July.1886 年 3 月，Clark 在马萨诸塞州 Amherst 逝世，享年 60 岁；同年 7 月，学校植物园竣工。

• Shosuke Sato became principal in 1894 and led the college for more than two decades, and in 1907 it became the College of Agriculture of the newly established Tohoku Imperial University, with a preparatory course attached.佐藤昌介（Shosuke Sato）1894 年出任校长，执掌二十余年；1907 年，札幌农学校改为新设东北帝国大学的农科大学，并附设预科。

• In April 1918 Hokkaido Imperial University was established as the fifth imperial university in Japan, the College of Agriculture was transferred from Tohoku, and Sato served concurrently as president, while Sechi Kato became the university's first woman student that year.1918 年 4 月，北海道帝国大学成立，为日本第五所帝国大学，东北帝国大学农科大学转入，佐藤昌介以农科大学长兼任总长；同年，Sechi Kato 成为首位女学生。

• In February 1919 the College of Agriculture was renamed the Faculty of Agriculture and the School of Medicine was established, degree regulations followed in 1921, the first degrees were conferred in September 1922, and the Faculty of Engineering was established in September 1924.1919 年 2 月，农科大学改称农学部并创设医学部；1921 年制定学位规程；1922 年 9 月授予首批学位；1924 年 9 月工学部设立。

• The fiftieth anniversary of the founding was marked in May 1926 with the unveiling of a bronze bust of Clark, and the Faculty of Science was established in April 1930.1926 年 5 月举行创基 50 周年纪念式并揭幕 Clark 胸像；1930 年 4 月理学部设立。

• The second-generation Keiteki dormitory opened in November 1931, and the wartime years saw the Institute of Low Temperature Science founded in 1941 and the Institute of Catalysis in 1943.1931 年 11 月第二代惠迪寮开寮；战时先后于 1941 年设立低温科学研究所、1943 年设立触媒研究所。

• The Faculty of Law and Literature was established in April 1947, and in October of that year the Hokkaido Imperial University was renamed Hokkaido University, with Seiya Ito as president.1947 年 4 月法文学部设立，同年 10 月北海道帝国大学改名北海道大学，伊藤诚哉（Seiya Ito）出任总长。

• Under the National School Establishment Law of May 1949 it became a new-system university with faculties of law and letters, education, science, medicine, engineering, agriculture and fisheries in Hakodate.1949 年 5 月，依《国立学校设置法》改组为新制大学，设法文、教育、理、医、工、农与水产（函馆）等学部。

• The Faculty of Law and Letters was split into Letters and Law and Economics in 1950, the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine was established in 1952, and the two were further divided into separate faculties of Law and of Economics in 1953, when the new-system graduate schools were also set up.1950 年法文学部分拆为文学部与法经学部；1952 年兽医学部设立；1953 年法经学部分拆为法学部与经济学部，同年设立新制研究生院。

• The Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences was established in 1965 and the Faculty of Dentistry in 1967, and in 1969 student unrest reached the campus while nine buildings of the Second Farm, including the model barn, were designated Important Cultural Properties.1965 年药学部设立，1967 年齿学部设立；1969 年校园卷入学潮，同年农学部附属第二农场含模范家畜房在内的 9 栋建筑被指定为重要文化财。

• The centenary of the founding was celebrated in 1976, the Institute of Catalysis was reorganised as the Catalysis Research Center in 1989, the Faculty of General Education was abolished in 1995, and the Hokkaido University Museum was established in 1999.1976 年举行创基 100 周年纪念；1989 年触媒研究所改组为触媒化学研究中心；1995 年废除教养部；1999 年设立综合博物馆。

• In April 2004 the university was incorporated as a National University Corporation, and in 2014 it was selected for the government's Super Global Universities programme in the top Type A category, receiving 420 million yen a year until 2023.2004 年 4 月，学校改制为国立大学法人；2014 年入选文部科学省「超级全球化大学」计划 A 类顶尖型，至 2023 年每年获 4.2 亿日元资助。

• President Toyoharu Nawa was dismissed in June 2020 for abuse of power, the first such dismissal of a national university president since 2004, and was succeeded by the neurosurgeon Kiyohiro Houkin.2020 年 6 月，总长名和丰春因职场滥权遭文部科学大臣罢免，为 2004 年国立大学法人化以来首例，神经外科医生宝金清博（Kiyohiro Houkin）继任。

• The university announced HU VISION 2030 in 2023, marked its 150th anniversary in 2026, and saw Houkin reappointed for a second term running from 1 April 2026 to 31 March 2030.2023 年学校发布「HU VISION 2030」；2026 年迎来建校 150 周年，宝金清博连任总长，任期自 2026 年 4 月 1 日至 2030 年 3 月 31 日。

Academics

• The university runs twelve undergraduate faculties, among them Letters, Education, Law, Economics, Medicine, Dental Medicine, Engineering, Veterinary Medicine, Fisheries Sciences, Agriculture, Pharmaceutical Sciences and Science, with health sciences and nursing taught within the Faculty of Medicine.学校设 12 个学部，涵盖文学、教育、法学、经济、医学、牙科、工学、兽医学、水产、农学、药学与理学等门类，卫生科学与护理学科则设在医学部之下。

• Twenty-one graduate schools span agriculture, biomedical science and engineering, chemical sciences and engineering, dental medicine, economics and business, education, engineering, environmental science, fisheries sciences, global food resources, health sciences, information science and technology, infectious diseases, international media, communication and tourism studies, law, letters, life science, medicine, pharmaceutical sciences, public policy, science and veterinary medicine.研究生院共 21 个，方向覆盖农学、生物医学科学与工程、化学科学与工程、牙科、经济与商务、教育、工学、环境科学、水产、全球粮食资源、卫生科学、信息科学与技术、感染症、国际传媒传播与观光、法学、文学、生命科学、医学、药学、公共政策、理学与兽医学。

• Postgraduate degrees taught entirely in English are offered in agriculture, chemical sciences and engineering, engineering, environmental science, life sciences, science and veterinary medicine, open to international and domestic students alike with scholarships ranging from tuition discounts to full funding.农学、化学科学与工程、工学、环境科学、生命科学、理学与兽医学等研究科开设全英文授课的研究生课程，留学生与日本学生均可申请，奖学金从学费减免至全额资助不等。

• Two programmes are aimed exclusively at international students: the four-year Modern Japanese Studies Program, a bilingual bachelor's degree on the history, culture, society and political economy of modern Japan, and the five-year Integrated Science Program, which leads to a master's degree in physics, chemistry or biology.面向留学生设有两个专门项目：四年制双语学士「现代日本学项目」，讲授近代日本的历史、文化、社会与政治经济；五年制「综合科学项目」，可获物理学、化学或生物学硕士学位。

• The Institute of Low Temperature Science, founded in 1941, and the Slavic Research Center, founded in 1978, both became national joint-use facilities, in 1995 and 1990 respectively.1941 年创设的低温科学研究所与 1978 年设立的斯拉夫研究中心，分别于 1995 年、1990 年成为日本全国共同利用设施。

• Other research bodies include the Institute for Catalysis, the Institute of Electronic Science, the Catalysis Research Center, the Northern BioSphere Field Science Center and the Institute for Snow and Ice Studies at Nagaoka.其他研究机构包括触媒研究所、电子科学研究所、触媒化学研究中心、北方生物圈领域科学中心与长冈雪冰防灾研究所等。

• The Institute for Chemical Reaction Design and Discovery counts 2021 Nobel laureate Benjamin List among its principal investigators, and the Institute for Catalysis has 2010 laureate Ei-ichi Negishi as a specially invited professor.化学反应设计发现研究所以 2021 年诺贝尔奖得主 Benjamin List 为核心研究员，触媒研究所则聘 2010 年诺贝尔奖得主 Ei-ichi Negishi 为客座教授。

• The Institute of Seismology and Volcanology was founded in 1998 in collaboration with seismological observatories across Hokkaido and is represented on the national Coordinating Committee for Earthquake Prediction.1998 年，学校与北海道内多处地震观测所合作设立地震火山研究所，并派代表参加国家地震预测协调委员会。

• The Hokkaido Summer Institute, launched in 2016, runs for three months from June to August, inviting guest lecturers from around the world to teach credit-bearing short courses in English.2016 年创设的「北海道夏季学院」于每年 6 至 8 月举办，邀全球客座教师以英语讲授计学分的短期课程。

• As of 2017 the university enrolled 18,362 students in total, including 11,935 undergraduates and 6,336 postgraduates, plus 89 research students.截至 2017 年，在校学生共 18,362 人，其中本科生 11,935 人、研究生 6,336 人，另有研究学生 89 人。

• Administrative staff numbered 6,250, and in 2003 the hospitals of medicine and dentistry were merged into the single Hokkaido University Hospital.行政职员 6,250 人；2003 年 10 月，医学部与齿学部附属医院合并为北海道大学医院。

• In 2004 the Medical Technology Junior College was upgraded to the School of Health Sciences within the Faculty of Medicine, and a graduate school of information science was established.2004 年，医疗技术短期大学部升格为医学部保健学科，同年设立信息科学研究科。

• The Brain Science Research Center was established in September 2003, joining a research line-up that also includes the Research Center for Integrated Quantum Electronics.2003 年 9 月设立脑科学研究中心，研究机构还包括量子集成电子学研究中心等。

• The university is an active member of the University of the Arctic, a circumpolar network of more than 200 universities and colleges, and operated eight overseas satellite offices as of June 2018, in Seoul, Helsinki, Beijing, Lusaka, Bandung, Quezon City and Kamphaeng Saen.学校是北极大学联合体这一环北极地区 200 余所高校网络的活跃成员；截至 2018 年 6 月，在首尔、赫尔辛基、北京、卢萨卡、万隆、奎松城与 Kamphaeng Saen 运营八处海外卫星办公室。

• Undergraduate selectivity is usually regarded as among the top fifteen in the country, and the university belongs to the National Seven Universities, the association of the seven former imperial universities.本科入学选拔度通常被视为全国前 15；学校并为国立七大学成员，该合作为七所旧帝国大学组成。

Campus

• The main Sapporo campus lies just north of Sapporo Station in the heart of the city, covering about 180 hectares, and hosts every faculty except fisheries together with the research institutes and centres.主校区札幌校区位于札幌车站以北、市中心腹地，占地约 180 公顷，除水产学部外的全部学部与各研究所均设于此。

• The campus is addressed at Kita 8-jo Nishi 5-chome in Kita-ku, Sapporo, and stretches roughly 1.5 kilometres along a central avenue from the Main Gate to the Kita 18 Gate, between the Kita-Juni-Jo and Kita 18-jo stations of the Namboku Subway Line.校区位于札幌市北区北 8 条西 5 丁目，以一条约 1.5 公里长的中央大道为轴，自正门延至北 18 条门，大致相当于地铁南北线北 12 条站至北 18 条站之间。

• The avenue is lined with elms, giving the campus its nickname of the forest of elms, and the golden ginkgos of Ginkgo Avenue draw residents and tourists every autumn.大道两侧榆树成荫，校园因有「榆树之森」之称；入秋银杏大道满树金黄，市民与游客络绎不绝。

• A poplar avenue some 300 metres long runs between the Faculty of Science and Engineering near the experimental farm, and century-old trees in it were heavily damaged by a typhoon in September 2004.理学部与工学部之间、实验农场附近有一条长约 300 米的白杨林荫道，道中百年白杨于 2004 年 9 月的台风中受损严重。

• The Hokkaido University Museum opened in 1999 in the converted former building of the Faculty of Science, and the Second Farm of the Faculty of Agriculture, a Meiji-era model livestock farm laid out on Clark's concept, had its nine buildings designated Important Cultural Properties in 1969.北海道大学综合博物馆于 1999 年由旧理学馆改建开设；农学部附属第二农场是依 Clark 构想兴建的明治时期模范家畜场，9 栋建筑于 1969 年被指定为重要文化财。

• A bronze bust of Clark stands on the central lawn near the Main Gate as a favourite photo spot, and the Hokkaido University Botanic Garden south of the campus is the largest green space in central Sapporo.正门附近的中央草坪立有 Clark 胸像，是访客留影胜地；校园以南的北海道大学植物园是札幌市中心最大的绿化地带。

• The Hakodate campus in Minato-cho, Hakodate, houses the Faculty and Graduate School of Fisheries Sciences, whose students complete three semesters of liberal arts at Sapporo before moving south from their second year, and two research vessels, the Oshoru Maru and the Ushio Maru, are based in Hakodate harbour for hands-on training at sea.函馆校区位于函馆市港町，设水产学部与水产科学研究科；水产学生先在札幌修完三个学期通识课程，二年级起转入函馆；「Oshoru Maru」与「Ushio Maru」两艘研究船以函馆港为基地，提供海上实践条件。

• Some twenty further facilities across Hokkaido include the Usu Volcano Observatory, the Akkeshi Marine Laboratory and the Shizunai Research Ranch, and the university also holds a research forest of 4.29 million square metres in Kozagawa, Wakayama Prefecture.北海道内另有有珠火山观测所、厚岸临海实验所、静内研究牧场等约 20 处设施，并在和歌山县古座川拥有 429 万平方米的研究林。

• In total the university's facilities cover about 660 square kilometres, the largest estate of any university in Japan and roughly twice that of the University of Tokyo.全校设施总计约 660 平方公里，为日本面积最大的大学，约为东京大学的两倍。

Reputation

• Hokkaido University places 179th in the 2027 QS World University Rankings, in the 376-400 band of the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings and in the 201-300 band of the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities.北海道大学在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列第 179，在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中处于 376 至 400 区间，在 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名中处于 201 至 300 区间。

• The Times Higher Education Japan rankings placed it fifth in the country in 2019, the 2017 CWTS Leiden Ranking put it 120th in the world and sixth in Japan, and the 2018 QS rankings placed it 122nd in the world and seventh in Japan.2019 年泰晤士高等教育日本大学排名将其列为日本第五；2017 年 CWTS 莱顿排名居世界第 120、日本第六；2018 年 QS 排名居世界第 122、日本第七。

• The Nature Index 2023 annual table ranked it 142nd in the world and fifth in Japan for output in the natural sciences and health sciences.2023 年自然指数年度榜单中，学校在自然科学与健康科学产出方面居世界第 142、日本第五。

• OpenAlex records 275,516 works by the university that have drawn 12,249,584 citations.OpenAlex 收录学校论文 275,516 篇，被引 12,249,584 次。

• Two Nobel laureates in chemistry are counted among its alumni and faculty: Akira Suzuki, who shared the 2010 prize with Richard F. Heck and Ei-ichi Negishi, and Benjamin List, the 2021 laureate, who is a principal investigator at the Institute for Chemical Reaction Design and Discovery.师生中先后走出两位诺贝尔化学奖得主：2010 年与 Richard F. Heck、Ei-ichi Negishi 共享该奖的铃木章，以及 2021 年得主、本校化学反应设计发现研究所核心研究员 Benjamin List。

• Ei-ichi Negishi, the 2010 co-laureate, serves as a specially invited professor at the university's Institute for Catalysis.2010 年共同得主 Ei-ichi Negishi 亦受聘为本校触媒研究所客座教授。

• Other major honours linked to the university include the 2006 Robert Koch Prize awarded to the virologist Yoshihiro Kawaoka.与本校相关的其他高级别奖项包括 2006 年授予病毒学家河冈义裕（Yoshihiro Kawaoka）的罗伯特·科赫奖。

• In 1952 the University of Tokyo president Tadao Yanaihara judged that Meiji-era Japanese higher education had two centres, Tokyo and the Sapporo Agricultural College, which laid the foundations of statism and liberalism respectively.1952 年，东京大学校长矢内原忠雄评价明治初年日本大学教育有东京大学与札幌农学校两大中心，分别奠定国家主义与自由主义两大思想基础。

• The university is counted among Japan's leading research universities and generally places inside the global top 200.学校被视为日本主要研究型大学之一，全球排名通常位于 200 强之内。

Student life

• The motto is Boys, Be Ambitious, the parting words of the American vice-principal William S. Clark when he left Sapporo in 1877, rendered in Japanese as Shonen yo, taishi o idake.校训为日语「少年よ、大志を抱け」，意为「少年们，应胸怀大志」，源自 1877 年美国教头 William S. Clark 离任归国时的临别赠言。

• The school colour is leaf green, and the large-flowered Trillium known in Japanese as obana-no-enreisou serves as both the school flower and the main motif of the university emblem.学校代表色为叶绿色，校花为大花延龄草，亦是校徽的主要图案。

• The Keiteki dormitory, the university's first student residence, opened in April 1905, and second and third generations followed in 1931 and 1983.校内首座学生宿舍「惠迪寮」于 1905 年 4 月开寮，1931 年、1983 年先后开设第二代与第三代。

• The dormitory song Miyako zo Yayoi, with lyrics by Yoshisuke Yokoyama and music by Kenji Akagi, premiered at the Keiteki dormitory in April 1912 and is still sung by students today.寮歌《都ぞ弥生》由横山芳介作词、赤木显次作曲，1912 年 4 月在惠迪寮发表，至今仍为学生传唱。

• The Hokudai Festival, the annual university festival, traces its origins to the first university festival held in autumn 1946 and was first held under its present name in 1959, and the 68th edition ran from 5 to 7 June 2026 with more than 300 participating groups and over 100,000 visitors.年度学园祭「北大祭」前身为 1946 年秋的首届大学祭，1959 年定名开办，2026 年 6 月 5 日至 7 日举办第 68 届，参加团体逾 300 个、来访者逾 10 万人次。

• The festival comprises some ten constituent events, from the Yuryo festival of first-year students and clubs to faculty research showcases, and its International Food Festival sees international students recreate the flavours of 17 countries, closing with a mass singing of the dormitory song.祭典由一年级学生与社团为主的榆陵祭、各学部研究成果发布等约十个分部祭典组成，其中的「国际美食节」由留学生复原 17 个国家的家乡味道，闭幕时众人同唱寮歌。

• The Hokkaido University Newspaper, founded in 1926 and marking its centenary in 2026, is run by students, ceased publication in 2011 and was revived as an online publication in 2018.学生报纸《北海道大学新闻》创刊于 1926 年，2026 年迎来创刊百年；该报 2011 年一度停刊，2018 年以网络版复刊。

• Students run the Hokkaido University International Students Association and take part in the Hokkaido American Football Association, while the campus itself doubles as a public park for the people of Sapporo.学生自组北海道大学留学生会（HUISA）等团体并参加北海道美式橄榄球联盟；校园本身亦如公园，向札幌市民开放。

Notable people

• William S. Clark, the founding vice-principal, had been president of the Massachusetts Agricultural College and stayed in Sapporo only eight months, yet his parting words became the university motto.创校教头 William S. Clark 原任马萨诸塞农科大学校长，在札幌仅留八个月，其临别赠言成为本校校训。

• Zusho Hirotake, a Kaitakushi official, became the first president of the Sapporo Agricultural College in 1876.开拓使官员调所广丈（Zusho Hirotake）1876 年出任札幌农学校首任校长。

• Shosuke Sato, principal of the college from 1894, became head of the College of Agriculture of Tohoku Imperial University in 1907 and the first president of Hokkaido Imperial University in 1919.佐藤昌介 1894 年任札幌农学校校长，1907 年任东北帝国大学农科大学长，1919 年 4 月出任北海道帝国大学首任总长。

• Seiya Ito, president from 1945, presided over the renaming of the university as Hokkaido University in 1947 and the postwar conversion to the new system in 1949.伊藤诚哉 1945 年 11 月出任总长，历经 1947 年改名与 1949 年新制改制。

• Kiyohiro Houkin, a neurosurgeon and former director of the university hospital, has served as president since 2020 and was reappointed for a second term in 2026.神经外科医生、大学医院前院长宝金清博（Kiyohiro Houkin）2020 年就任总长，2026 年获连任。

• Akira Suzuki, a chemist educated at the university, shared the 2010 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Richard F. Heck and Ei-ichi Negishi for palladium-catalysed cross couplings in organic synthesis.化学家铃木章毕业于本校，因有机合成中的钯催化交叉偶联反应，与 Richard F. Heck、Ei-ichi Negishi 共享 2010 年诺贝尔化学奖。

• Benjamin List, the 2021 Nobel laureate in Chemistry, is a principal investigator at the university's Institute for Chemical Reaction Design and Discovery.2021 年诺贝尔化学奖得主 Benjamin List 现任本校化学反应设计发现研究所核心研究员。

• Ei-ichi Negishi, the 2010 co-laureate, holds a specially invited professorship at the Institute for Catalysis.2010 年诺贝尔化学奖共同得主 Ei-ichi Negishi 受聘为本校触媒研究所客座教授。

• Yoshihiro Kawaoka, a virologist trained at the university, received the 2006 Robert Koch Prize for his work on influenza viruses.病毒学家河冈义裕毕业于本校，因流感病毒研究获 2006 年罗伯特·科赫奖。

• Nitobe Inazo, a graduate of the Sapporo Agricultural College, served as under-secretary-general of the League of Nations, president of Tokyo Women's University, and wrote Bushido: the Soul of Japan.新渡户稻造毕业于札幌农学校，曾任国际联盟副秘书长、东京女子大学校长，著有《武士道：日本之魂》。

• Uchimura Kanzo, another Sapporo Agricultural College graduate, was a Christian evangelist and founder of the Non-church Christianity movement.同为札幌农学校毕业生的内村鉴三是基督教传道者、「无教会主义」运动创始人。

• Scientific alumni include Ryuzo Yanagimachi, a pioneer of in vitro fertilisation and cloning, Mamoru Mohri, the chemist and astronaut, Ukichiro Nakaya, the physicist who created artificial snow, and Mashiho Chiri, scholar of the Ainu language.科学界校友包括体外受精与克隆研究先驱柳町隆造、化学家兼宇航员毛利卫、人工雪制造者物理学家中谷宇吉郎与阿伊努语言学者知里真志保。

• Writers and artists among the alumni include the novelists Takeo Arishima and the composer Akira Ifukube, while the alpinist Yuichiro Miura, a Faculty of Veterinary Medicine graduate, became the oldest person to summit Mount Everest.文艺界校友包括小说家有岛武郎与作曲家伊福部昭；兽医学部毕业的登山家三浦雄一郎则是登顶珠穆朗玛峰的最年长者。

• Shigeru Kayano, scholar of Ainu culture and member of the Diet, and Juro Wada, the surgeon who performed Japan's first heart transplant, also belong to the university.阿伊努文化学者、国会议员萱野茂，与施行日本首例心脏移植手术的外科医生和田寿郎亦出自本校。

• Luo Zongluo, a Chinese plant physiologist who studied at the university, became the first president of National Taiwan University and director of the Institute of Plant Physiology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.中国植物生理学家罗宗洛曾留学本校，后任国立台湾大学首任校长、中国科学院植物生理研究所所长，并为中国科学院院士。

• Business and public-life alumni include Masaji Matsuda, chairman of East Japan Railway, Tatsuo Higuchi, president of Otsuka Pharmaceutical, Taro Yamashita, founder of the Arabia Oil company, and Tatsuya Hori, former governor of Hokkaido.企业与公共事务界校友包括 JR 东日本前会长松田昌士、大冢制药社长樋口达夫、Arabia 石油创立者山下太郎与前北海道知事堀达也等。