Education

Please contact Professor Ogata if you are interested in joining in our bioinformatics laboratory.

Potential Grad Students

Our laboratory is associated with two graduate schools of Kyoto University. Potential graduate students (Master/2 years or Doctor/3 years) will have to be qualified for admission to one of the following two graduate schools.

• Graduate School of Science (Department of Biophysics, Division of Biological Science)
• Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences (Division of Bioinformatics and Chemical Genomics)

These two graduate schools organize their entrance exam independently.
Please check the following web pages for the deadlines of application and the dates of entrance exam, although we strongly recommend you to contact us first.

• for Graduate School of Science (in Japanese)
• for Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences (in Japanese)
• for Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences (in English)

Very approximatively, the admission processes by the graduate schools are yearly scheduled as below.

† It is generally recommended that the applicants have stayed at least six months as a research student (see below) in the laboratory prior to application to the Doctor or Master programs. The six months stay is indeed mandatory for the admission to the Master course of the Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences.
‡ These exams are carried out only in Japanese.

Japanese government scholarship

Our laboratory does not provide financial support to research students or graduate students. For those who need financial supports, we strongly recommend applicants to obtain a scholarship by themselves, such as the Japanese government (MEXT) scholarship.

• MEXT scholarship

Research students

Graduate student candidates may apply to a research student (“Kenkyu-sei”) status of the Institute for Chemical Research for short stay (usually 6 to 12 months) in our lab before becoming a graduate student. Many of the past students from abroad used this system. This research student system may allow you to familiarize yourself with life in Japan and to prepare the entrance exam of the graduate schools. However, note that a research student status does not ensure the admission to the graduate school (regular student status); you need hard work to win the competitive entrance exam.

• Application for research students starting from October 2024 has been closed.
• Application for research students starting from October 2025 will be open from October 2024 to December 2024. Entrance examination for the applicant for the research student status will be organized in January-March 2025.

Fees

Fees are subject to change. Please refer to relevant offcial pages cited above for update.

Additional informaiton

• Why Kyoto University?
• Some useful links…
• Admissions Assistant Office  — for applicants from China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.
• Handbook for International Students (Kyoto Univ.)
• iLab (Graduate School of Science)
• LIMS (Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences)