Doctoral degree program
Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences

Human sciences should be advanced more by association and cooperation of individual research areas on human, which is also necessary for solving the increasing human problems in near future. In response to the demand of the new era, the Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences started in 2001. The graduate programs consist of 20 main fields (2 programs are master's program, 13 programs are 5-year consecutive doctoral program, and 2 programs are 3-year sectioned second part of doctoral program). They can be divided into the following 4 areas:

Humanities
4 main fields - Education, School Education, Psychology, Disability Sciences
Physical Education and Arts
6 main fields: Physical Education, Health and Sport Sciences, Coaching Science (3-year doctoral program), Art and Design (preparatory doctoral program), Art and Design (advanced doctoral program), World cultural Heritage Studies (preparatory doctoral program), World cultural Heritage Studies (advanced doctoral program)
Medical Sciences
7 main fields Medical Sciences (Master's program), Nursing Sciences (Master's program), Advanced Biomedical Applications, Biomolecular and Integrated Medical Sciences, Medical Sciences for Control of Pathological Processes, Functional and Regulatory Medical Sciences, Environmental Health and Community Medicine
Interdisciplinary Sciences
3 main fields - Human Care Sciences, Kansei Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Sports Medicine.

The Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences with 17 programs intends (1) to train students to become researchers who have excellent research capability to perform high-quality studies, and as well (2) to train students to become highly specialized professionals, both with a broad vision on humans based on the plenty of the multi-disciplinary knowledge of human body and mind.