Kyushu University

Kyushu University, usually shortened to Kyudai, is a national research university in Fukuoka on the island of Kyushu, Japan, founded in 1911 as the country's fourth imperial university and tracing its origins to the Sanshikan medical school established by the Fukuoka Domain in 1867.九州大学（简称「九大」）是位于日本九州岛福冈市的国立研究型大学，1911 年作为日本第四所帝国大学创立，其源头可追溯至 1867 年福冈藩设立的医学校赞生馆。

Designated a Designated National University Corporation in 2021, it runs twelve faculties and nineteen graduate schools, enrols 18,831 students including 2,618 international students as of May 2025, and places 171st in the 2027 QS World University Rankings.学校于 2021 年入选指定国立大学法人，现设 12 个学部与 19 个学府，截至 2025 年 5 月在校学生 18831 人，其中留学生 2618 人，在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列第 171。

History

• In 1867, in the last years of the Edo period, the Fukuoka Domain established the Sanshikan, a domain school for medicine, in the Tenjin district of Fukuoka.1867 年，即江户时代末期，福冈藩在福冈天神地区设立施行医学教育的藩校赞生馆。

• The Sanshikan was closed in 1872 when Japan promulgated its modern school system, but its attached hospital kept operating and became the hospital of the Fukuoka Prefectural Fukuoka Medical School in 1879.1872 年日本颁行学制，赞生馆随之废校，但其附属医院延续运营，1874 年改为修猷馆附属诊疗所，1879 年成为福冈县立福冈医学校的附属医院。

• After the Imperial University Ordinance of 1886, the campaign to seat an imperial university in Kyushu succeeded on 29 January 1900, when the fourteenth Imperial Diet approved the establishment of Kyushu and Tohoku Imperial Universities.1886 年帝国大学令公布后，在九州设立帝国大学的运动终获成功，1900 年 1 月 29 日第 14 次帝国议会通过设立九州帝国大学与东北帝国大学的建议案。

• Nagasaki, long a centre of Western medicine, and Kumamoto, home of the Fifth Higher School, also bid to host the new university before Fukuoka prevailed.西洋医学源远流长的长崎县与设有第五高等学校的熊本县亦参与竞争，最终福冈胜出。

• In 1903 the Fukuoka Medical College of Kyoto Imperial University was founded on the site of the old hospital as a branch college of Kyoto Imperial University.1903 年，在旧医院原址设立京都帝国大学福冈医科大学，作为京都帝大的分科大学。

• A donation of about one million yen from the Furukawa zaibatsu in 1906 broke the financial deadlock, roughly sixty per cent of it funding the engineering college buildings while the rest helped upgrade the Sapporo Agricultural College and found the science college of Tohoku Imperial University.1906 年古河财阀约 100 万日元的捐款打破财政僵局，其中约六成用于工科大学校舍建设，其余四成则用于升格札幌农学校（后为北海道帝国大学）并新设东北帝国大学理科大学。

• Kyushu Imperial University was formally established on 1 January 1911 with colleges of medicine and engineering, becoming the fourth imperial university in Japan.九州帝国大学于 1911 年 1 月 1 日正式成立，设医科与工科两分科大学，为日本第四所帝国大学。

• Kenjiro Yamakawa, a physicist who had served as president of the Imperial University of Tokyo, was appointed its first president.物理学家、曾任东京帝国大学总长的山川健次郎出任首任总长。

• Under the revised Imperial University Ordinance of 1919, the colleges were reorganised into faculties of medicine, engineering and agriculture.1919 年《帝国大学令》修订后，各分科大学改组为医学部、工学部与农学部。

• Albert Einstein visited the university on 25 September 1922 during a lecture tour of Japan invited by the publisher Kaizosha, and addressed its scientists at the faculty of engineering.1922 年 9 月 25 日，爱因斯坦在应改造社之邀访日讲学期间到访九州帝国大学，并在工学部发表演讲。

• A faculty of law and literature opened in 1924 and admitted two women students in its first year.1924 年法文学部成立，首年即招收两名女学生。

• The faculty of science was established in 1939, completing the pre-war structure of five faculties.1939 年理学部设立，战前五学部格局至此形成。

• The university was renamed Kyushu University in 1947, when the Imperial University Ordinance gave way to the National Comprehensive University Ordinance.1947 年《帝国大学令》改为《国立综合大学令》，学校改名九州大学。

• In 1949, under the postwar reform, it absorbed its attached medical special school, Fukuoka Higher School and Kurume Technical College to become a university of the new system.1949 年，在战后学制改革下，学校并入附属医学专门部、福冈高等学校与久留米工业专门学校，转为新制大学。

• The faculty of law and literature was split into faculties of literature, law and economics, and education was separated from literature in the same year.同年，法文学部改组为文学部、法学部与经济学部，教育学科自文学部分离。

• The campuses of the absorbed schools became the First and Second Branches, which merged in 1955 and were reorganised as the Faculty of General Education in 1963, while a Third Branch on the former Army 48th Regiment barracks, opened in 1949, was abolished in 1951.被并入学校的校址成为第一、第二分校，1955 年两分校合并，1963 年改组为教养部，而 1949 年设在旧陆军步兵第四十八连队兵舍遗址的第三分校于 1951 年废止。

• Graduate schools of the new system were established in 1953, the faculty of pharmaceutical sciences in 1964 and the faculty of dental science in 1967.新制研究生院于 1953 年设立，药学部于 1964 年设立，齿学部于 1967 年设立。

• The Kyushu Institute of Design was founded in 1968 and returned to the university in 2003 as its faculty of design.九州艺术工科大学于 1968 年创立，2003 年并入学校后成为艺术工学部。

• The Faculty of General Education was abolished in 1994, and the graduate reforms of 1997 and 2000 separated research from education into research institutes and graduate schools.教养部于 1994 年废除，1997 年与 2000 年的研究生院改革把研究与教育分离为研究院与学府。

• The university merged with the Kyushu Institute of Design in 2003 under Act No. 29 of that year, adding its design programmes.2003 年，学校依据当年第 29 号法律与九州艺术工科大学合并，增设设计类专业。

• It became a national university corporation in 2004 and opened a law school the same year.2004 年学校改制为国立大学法人，同年开设法科大学院。

• The Ito Campus opened in 2005, shifting the university's centre from Hakozaki to the western edge of Fukuoka.伊都校区于 2005 年启用，学校中心自箱崎迁往福冈市西缘。

• In November 2021 the university was designated a Designated National University Corporation and adopted its Vision 2030.2021 年 11 月，学校获指定国立大学法人指定，并通过「九州大学 VISION 2030」。

• Koichi Akashi, a haematologist and former director of the university hospital, took office as the twenty-fifth president on 1 October 2026.血液学家、大学医院前院长 Koichi Akashi 于 2026 年 10 月 1 日就任第 25 任总长。

Academics

• As of 2025 the university runs twelve faculties and nineteen graduate schools, among them the graduate schools of humanities, law, economics, sciences, mathematics, medical sciences, engineering, integrated frontier sciences and bioresources, with about 19,000 students and some 8,000 faculty and staff.截至 2025 年，学校设有 12 个学部与 19 个学府，学府涵盖人文科学、法学、经济、理学、数理、医学、工学、综合理工、统合新领域与生物资源环境等方向，学生与教职员工合计约 19000 人与 8000 人。

• Its faculties cover literature, education, law, economics, science, medicine, dentistry, pharmaceutical sciences, engineering, design and agriculture, with medicine, pharmacy and law counted as its traditional strengths.学部涵盖文学、教育、法学、经济、理学、医学、齿学、药学、工学、艺术工学与农学等门类，其中医学部、药学部与法学部被视为传统优势学部。

• The School of Interdisciplinary Science and Innovation, opened in 2019, was the first new faculty in about half a century and teaches across the humanities and sciences.2019 年设立的共同学部是学校约半世纪以来首个新学部，实施横跨人文与理工的跨学科教学。

• The university enrolled 18,831 students as of 1 May 2025, of whom 2,618 were international students, the fourth largest such body among Japan's national universities.截至 2025 年 5 月 1 日，学校在校学生为 18831 人，其中留学生 2618 人，在日本国立大学中居第四位。

• Earlier counts recorded 11,683 undergraduates and 6,877 graduate students in 2022.按 2022 年口径，本科生为 11683 人，研究生为 6877 人。

• The academic staff numbered 2,110 in May 2021, supported by 2,351 administrative staff, for a workforce of 7,911 in all, and several of its professors sit on national science councils.2021 年 5 月专任教师为 2110 人，另有行政人员 2351 人，教职工总数 7911 人，多位教授出任日本各级学术评议机构委员。

• The university hospital, one of the largest university hospitals in Japan, traces its history to the Sanshikan clinic of 1867 and merged the dental and bioregulation hospitals into its present form in 2003.九州大学医院为日本规模最大的大学医院之一，其历史可追溯至 1867 年的赞生馆诊疗所，2003 年并入齿科与生物调控相关医院后形成现今规模。

• Research institutes include the Research Institute for Applied Mechanics, the Institute for Materials Chemistry and Engineering, the Institute of Mathematics for Industry and the Medical Institute of Bioregulation.研究机构包括应用力学研究所、材料化学与工学研究所、产业数学研究所与生物调控医学研究所等。

• The International Institute for Carbon-Neutral Energy Research and the Hydrogen Institute for Sustainability anchor its energy and environment programmes.国际碳中和能源研究所与可持续氢能研究所构成其能源与环境研究的支柱。

• The library system is headed by the central library on the Ito Campus, among the largest university libraries in Japan, together with eight further libraries and reading rooms holding about 4.2 million volumes.图书馆系统以伊都校区中央图书馆为首，该馆为日本规模最大的大学图书馆之一，全系统另有 8 个图书馆与阅览室，藏书约 420 万册。

• The university holds exchange agreements with 314 partner institutions worldwide as of May 2025.截至 2025 年 5 月，学校与全球 314 所高校签有交流协议。

• It maintains overseas offices in ten cities, including Stockholm, Beijing, Seoul, Washington, Taipei, Hanoi, Yogyakarta, Brisbane and Cairo.学校在斯德哥尔摩、北京、首尔、华盛顿、台北、河内、日惹、布里斯班与开罗等十座城市设有海外办事处。

• In fiscal 2024, 1,903 of its students studied abroad in 81 countries and regions, and tuition-waiver exchange places are open to undergraduates and graduates alike.2024 年度有 1903 名学生在 81 个国家与地区留学，免学费交换项目向本科生与研究生同等开放。

• It is a member of the Japan-UK RENKEI network of twelve universities, the Japan-Sweden MIRAI programme and the United Nations Academic Impact.学校是日英 RENKEI 12 校研究教育网络、日瑞 MIRAI 计划与联合国学术影响倡议的成员。

• It was selected in 2014 for the Top Global University Project, the Japanese government's Type A funding stream for internationalisation.2014 年学校入选日本文部科学省「超级全球化大学」计划 A 类（顶尖型），获得国际化重点资助。

• It belongs to the Alliance of Eight Universities with engineering faculties in western Japan.学校还是西部日本八大学工学系联合会的成员校。

• Its operating budget was reported at about 1.445 billion US dollars, with an endowment of some 72 million dollars.其运营预算据报约 14.45 亿美元，捐赠基金约 7200 万美元。

Campus

• The main Ito Campus covers 275 hectares in Nishi-ku, Fukuoka, the largest single campus of any university in Japan.主校区伊都校区位于福冈市西区，占地 275 公顷，为日本规模最大的单一大学校区。

• It is addressed as 744 Motooka, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka, and is reached from the city centre by the JR Chikuhi Line to Kyudai-Gakkentoshi station and connecting buses run by the Nishitetsu and Showa companies.校区地址为福冈市西区元冈 744 番地，从市中心可乘 JR 筑肥线至九大学研都市站，转乘西铁巴士与昭和巴士抵达。

• The campus is divided into the Center Zone and the West Zone, the latter having opened first in 2005.校区分为中心区与西区，其中西区于 2005 年率先启用。

• The Center Zone gathers the university hall, the central library and the faculty buildings around a green axis, and the site borders Itoshima City to the west.中心区围绕绿轴布局，汇集大学会馆、中央图书馆与各学部教学楼，校区西端与糸岛市接壤。

• The Hakozaki Campus, seat of the imperial university until 2005, retains the historic main building of the school of engineering but no longer carries regular teaching.箱崎校区在 2005 年之前为学校本部所在地，保留有工科大学历史主楼，现已不承担常规教学任务。

• The Maidashi Campus in Higashi-ku houses Kyushu University Hospital.位于福冈市东区的马出校区设有九州大学医院。

• The Chikushi Campus in Kasuga City hosts the agricultural and forestry research fields.春日市的筑紫校区设有农学与林业研究场地。

• The Ohashi Campus in Minami-ku is the home of the Faculty of Design.福冈市南区的大桥校区为艺术工学部的所在地。

• A campus in Beppu, Oita Prefecture, operates research forests and farms covering 72 square kilometres.学校在大分县别府市设有校区，拥有占地 72 平方公里的研究林与农场。

• The relocation to Ito drew criticism for the campus's distance from the city centre and its transport costs.迁往伊都校区一事曾因校区远离市中心、交通费用高昂而受到批评。

Reputation

• Kyushu University places 171st in the 2027 QS World University Rankings, in the 301-325 band of the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings and in the 301-400 band of the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities.九州大学在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列第 171，在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中处于 301 至 325 区间，在 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名中处于 301 至 400 区间。

• The 2027 QS edition covers 1,504 institutions from 106 countries, and Kyushu remains the highest-placed university in its region.2027 年 QS 榜单覆盖 106 个国家的 1504 所高校，九州大学仍是其所处地区排名最高的大学。

• In the Times Higher Education Japan rankings it stood fourth among Japanese universities in 2019 and 2020.在泰晤士高等教育日本大学排名中，学校于 2019 与 2020 年位列日本第四。

• In the 2021 QS subject rankings its mining engineering programme placed thirty-sixth in the world, with chemistry and materials science inside the global top one hundred.在 2021 年 QS 学科排名中，学校采矿工程位列世界第 36，化学与材料科学进入全球前 100。

• OpenAlex records 255,506 works by the university that have drawn 14,883,939 citations.OpenAlex 收录学校论文 255506 篇，被引 14883939 次。

• Four of its medical professors were nominated for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine between 1919 and 1964.1919 至 1964 年间，学校先后有四位医学教授获诺贝尔生理学或医学奖提名。

• Its researchers have won two Kyoto Prizes, awarded to Masatoshi Nei in 2013 and Toyoki Kunitake in 2015.学校研究人员两度获京都奖：2013 年授予根井正利，2015 年授予国武丰喜。

• Physicist Kyozi Kawasaki received the Boltzmann Medal in 2001, and physician Tetsu Nakamura the Ramon Magsaysay Award in 2003.物理学家川崎恭资于 2001 年获玻尔兹曼奖，医生中村哲于 2003 年获拉蒙·麦格塞塞奖。

• In 2026 Distinguished Professor Chihaya Adachi was named a Clarivate Citation Laureate for pioneering organic light-emitting diode research.2026 年，特聘教授安达千波耶因有机发光二极管研究入选科睿唯安引文桂冠奖。

• The university is counted among Japan's leading research institutions and sits at the head of higher education in the Kyushu region.学校被视为日本主要研究机构之一，并居九州地区高等教育的龙头地位。

Student life

• The university's English-language motto is Opening the Door to a New Century of Knowledge.学校的英文宗旨口号为「Opening the Door to a New Century of Knowledge」（开启新世纪知识之门）。

• Its school colour is wine red, used in the emblem and on ceremonial occasions.学校代表色为酒红色，见于校徽与典礼场合。

• The Kyudai Festival, the annual student festival, was held for the seventy-eighth time on 1 and 2 November 2025 on the Ito Campus, drawing about 20,000 visitors to some 200 food stalls and stage performances over the two days.学生年节「九大祭」于 2025 年 11 月 1 日至 2 日在伊都校区举办第 78 届，两天节庆期间约 200 个模拟店与舞台演出吸引约 2 万名访客。

• Roughly 190 student clubs, athletic and cultural, are active across the university.全校约有 190 个学生社团，涵盖体育与文化类。

• Dormitories on the Ito Campus include the Ito Concerto halls with 551 single rooms and three further student residences, while the International Houses offer bilingual living support for incoming overseas students.伊都校区宿舍包括拥有 551 间单身室的伊都协奏馆及另外三栋学生宿舍，国际交流会馆则为留学生提供双语生活支持。
• About sixty kinds of scholarship, from university, ministry and private foundations, support students each year.学校每年提供约 60 种奖学金，来源包括校方、文部科学省与民间财团。

• Student bodies such as the International Student Committee SCIKyu and the International Students Association KUFSA run orientation, language exchange and cultural events.国际化学生委员会 SCIKyu 与留学生会 KUFSA 等学生团体组织迎新、语言交换与文化交流活动。

Notable people

• Kenjiro Yamakawa, the founding president, was a physicist and educator who had twice led the Imperial University of Tokyo before coming to Kyushu.创校总长山川健次郎是物理学家、教育家，此前曾两度出任东京帝国大学总长。

• Ōmori Harutoyo, a surgeon, served as the first president of the Fukuoka Medical College, the university's direct predecessor.外科医生大森俊洋曾任学校前身福冈医科大学的首任校长。

• Ryukichi Inada, professor of medicine, identified the spirochaete causing Weil's disease in 1914, the first such pathogen found in Japan, and was nominated for the 1919 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.医学教授稲田龙吉于 1914 年查明外耳氏病的病原螺旋体，这是日本发现的首个病原微生物，1919 年获诺贝尔生理学或医学奖提名。

• Pathologist Sunao Tawara discovered the atrioventricular node of the heart, still known as the node of Tawara.病理学家田原淳发现了心脏的房室结，迄今仍称「田原结」。

• Hakaru Hashimoto, who trained at the university, described the autoimmune thyroid condition now called Hashimoto's thyroiditis.曾在学校执医的桥本策描述了如今称为「桥本甲状腺炎」的自身免疫性甲状腺疾病。

• Toyoki Kunitake, professor emeritus of chemistry, won the 2015 Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology for founding the field of molecular self-assembly through his work on synthetic bilayer membranes.化学名誉教授国武丰喜因合成双层膜研究奠定分子自组装领域，获 2015 年京都奖尖端科技奖。

• Evolutionary biologist Masatoshi Nei, a 2013 Kyoto Prize laureate, advanced the theory of mutation-driven evolution.进化生物学家根井正利提出突变驱动进化理论，获 2013 年京都奖。

• Nuclear physicist Kōsuke Morita led the Japanese team that discovered element 113, named nihonium in 2016.核物理学家森田浩介率领日本团队发现 113 号元素，该元素 2016 年被命名为鉨（nihonium）。

• Astronaut Koichi Wakata, who earned his doctorate at the university, became the first Japanese commander of the International Space Station in 2010.宇航员若田光一在学校获博士学位，2010 年成为首位担任国际空间站指令长的日本人。

• Guo Moruo, the Chinese poet, historian and archaeologist who studied medicine at the imperial university, became the first president of both the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the University of Science and Technology of China.中国诗人、历史学家与考古学家郭沫若曾在该帝国大学学习医学，后出任中国科学院首任院长与中国科学技术大学首任校长。

• Novelist Yasushi Inoue, a 1950 Akutagawa Prize winner who left the university before graduating, wrote The Roof Tile of Tempyo.小说家井上靖未毕业即离校，以 1950 年获芥川奖的《天平之甍》等作品闻名。

• Heitaro Nakajima, an engineering alumnus, pioneered digital audio and later led Aiwa as its president.工学系校友中岛平太郎是数字音频技术的先驱，后任爱华公司总裁。

• Shozaburo Jimi, a medical graduate, served as Japan's Minister of Posts and Telecommunications.医学系校友自见庄三郎曾任日本邮政大臣。

• Genichi Taguchi, an engineering alumnus and statistician, developed the Taguchi methods that became standards of quality engineering.工学系校友、统计学家田口玄一创立「田口方法」，成为质量工程的业界标准。

• Robert T. Huang, who studied electrical engineering there, founded the IT distribution company Synnex.曾就读于电机工程系的 Robert T. Huang 创立 IT 分销公司新聚思（Synnex）。