Japan: number of postgraduate students by major and gender 2022

In the academic year 2022, around 69 thousand postgraduate students in Japan had a major in engineering, of which roughly 17 percent were female students. The field of engineering attracted the highest number of both male and female graduate students.

Number of postgraduate students in Japan in academic year 2022, by major field of study and gender

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Release date

December 2022

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Region

Japan

Survey time period

academic year 2022; the Japanese school year starts on April 1 of the stated year and ends on March 31 of the following year

Supplementary notes

*"Other" includes subjects such as liberal arts, integrated science, and international studies.

Figures include the number of students attending master's programs and those attending the first term of doctor's programs. The first term of doctor's programs refers to the first two years of full-term (five years) doctoral programs, excluding studies of medicine, dentistry, pharmaceutical, and veterinary medicine, that are considered equivalent to the master's programs.

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