Chiba University

Overview

Chiba University

Chiba University (Chiba Daigaku or Chibadai) is a public research university in the city of Chiba, Japan. It was founded in 1949 but traces its roots back to the establishment of the Chiba Public Hospital and the Chiba Normal School in 1872. It is recognized for being the first national university to establish a College of Liberal Arts and Sciences in the country. Chibadai is one of the largest universities in Japan in terms of undergraduate enrollment and among the best universities in Asia.

Chiba University Key Statistics

The university comprises nine faculties spread in its 15 graduate schools and 10 undergraduate schools. Its faculties include the Faculty of Law, Politics and Economics, Faculty of Engineering, and Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, while the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences and the Graduate School of Science and Technology are some of its professional schools.

Chibadai offers 10 postgraduate programs and nine doctoral programs, including several Ph.D. education programs offered through an academic coalition with Yokohama National University, Saitama University, and Tokyo Gakugei University.

Chiba University's student population is approximately 13,832, with 10,473 undergraduates, 2,038 postgraduates, and 1,222 doctoral candidates, including 2,328 international students.

It employs 1,308 teaching personnel and 2,085 technical / administrative staff in its four campuses located in Kashiwanoha, Matsudo, Inohana, and Nishi-Chiba.

The other Chiba University key statistics include its various campus facilities such as the university library, which holds 1.3 million volumes of academic resources, and the 850-bed capacity university hospital, which also functions as a teaching and research unit.

It also has more than 500 partner academic and research institutions, including 257 university exchange agreements and 252 faculty exchange agreements.

Chiba University Research

Research at Chibadai is managed by two core units, the Institute for Global Prominent Research and the Academic Research & Innovation Management Organization. The university is recognized for its high level of engagement in international cooperative research.

Medicine, biology, and chemistry are the top fields of Chiba University research. Its research projects’ outputs have been published in prestigious journals like ChemInform, Physical Review Letters, and The Astrophysical Journal. Chibadai research teams have attended major scholarly conferences such as IUS: International Ultrasonics Symposium, LREC: Language Resources and Evaluation, and IEEEAPS: IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium.

The most cited Chiba University research publication is Bousquet et al.’s (2012) “Allergic Rhinitis and its Impact on Asthma (ARIA): Achievements in 10 years and future needs.” This article was published in The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology and has been cited 7,725 times.

The university’s second most cited publication is Bousquet et al.’s (2008) “Allergic rhinitis and its impact on asthma (ARIA) 2008 update (in collaboration with the World Health Organization, GA(2)LEN and AllerGen),” which was featured in Allergy and has received 5,641 citations.

Moreover, the university’s third most cited publication is Mandal and Suzuki’s (2002) “Arsenic round the world: A review,” which was published in Talanta and has received 3,966 citations.

The university’s strategic priority research promotion programs include Chiral Materials Science, Hadron Astrophysics, and Mucosal Immunology and Allergy Therapeutics.

Some of its key research centers and laboratories are the Cancer Epigenome Center, the International Hub for Metallomics Research, and the Faculty of Education, Child Psychology Laboratory.