Graduate School of Letters and Faculty of Letters (京都大学大学院文学研究科･文学部) is one of the schools at
Kyoto University
, or , is a National university, national research university in Kyoto, Japan. Founded in 1897, it is one of the former Imperial Universities and the second oldest university in Japan.
The university has ten undergraduate faculties, eighteen gra ...
. The Faculty (Undergraduate) and Graduate School operate as one.
According to
QS World University Rankings
The ''QS World University Rankings'' is a portfolio of comparative college and university rankings compiled by Quacquarelli Symonds, a higher education analytics firm. Its first and earliest edition was published in collaboration with '' Times ...
by Subject 2022: Arts and Humanities, Kyoto University is ranked 2nd in Japan and 58th in the world.
As of 2020, there are 1,075 undergraduate and 464 graduate students.
Organization
Program
* Undergraduate Program
** First year: liberal arts education
** Second year: choosing a Division
** Third year: choosing a Department
** Fourth year: submitting a graduation thesis
* Graduate Programs
** 2-year Master's Program (for Bachelor's degree holders)
** 3-year Doctoral Program (for Master's degree holders)
Divisions
It has 5 divisions and dozens of departments, which cover almost all areas of the
humanities
Humanities are academic disciplines that study aspects of human society and culture, including Philosophy, certain fundamental questions asked by humans. During the Renaissance, the term "humanities" referred to the study of classical literature a ...
.
See also
*
Kyoto School
*
Heidelberg University
Heidelberg University, officially the Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg (; ), is a public research university in Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Founded in 1386 on instruction of Pope Urban VI, Heidelberg is Germany's oldest unive ...
References
External links
Graduate School of Letters / Faculty of Letters, Kyoto University{{Kyoto University
Letters