Nagoya University

Nagoya University is one of Japan's seven Imperial Universities and ranked QS #113 globally (2025), placing it among the world's top 120 universities. The university has produced 6 Nobel Prize winners — more Nobel laureates per student than any other Japanese institution — in fields including physics, chemistry, and medicine. Located in Nagoya, Japan's fourth-largest city and manufacturing capital, Nagoya University has particular strengths in engineering, physical sciences, life sciences, and medicine, underpinned by the surrounding industrial ecosystem anchored by Toyota, Honda, and Mitsubishi.

For international students, Nagoya University offers the same standard national tuition rate (¥535,800/year) as Tokyo and Kyoto — an extraordinary value for a QS Top 120 institution. MEXT (Japanese government) and Nagoya University scholarships are actively available for international students, and the university has strong English-medium programs at graduate level across engineering and science. Nagoya city offers a significantly lower cost of living than Tokyo, making it one of Japan's most cost-effective destinations for international graduate study at a world-class institution.