How do Japanese universities rank internationally, both undergraduate and graduate level?

Question

i mean how do they compare with universities in other countries in terms of quality

Answer 1

In the United States, Japanese degrees are said basically to be good if you want to work in Japan. Aside from that, the undergraduate degrees from Japanese universities are really nothing special in the U.S. American universities tend to be much more difficult and rigorous, so they are more highly valued in the U.S. (obviously), but also in the world. Graduate degrees are, of course, slightly more respectable, but still not so impressive. You will have more options internationally if you have a graduate degree from an American university.

Answer 2

The ppl who cares the world rank is westerners . In Japanese School Education law, foreign universities are not universities for Japan. The degree is not a degree. And the caliculams are also very different.
However, Japan equate foreing dgree with Japanese one today.

Japan would go her own way always. See the past, Japanese Univs haven't changed a lot.
Industries develop the graduated students after the they hired as a no-face skilled engineer. The west forcus on individuals, Japan focus on a team.

Answer 3

That's a solid question. We've all heard of the Japanese students who barely attend classes, and the professors who have given the same lectures for twenty years. On the other hand Japanese universities turn out competent engineers, physicians and other professionals and do some good research.

I think it's tough for a Japanese university to be world class when they are such insular institutions. To be world class you have to be open to the world-otherwise it becomes a case of "uchi-Benkei". I know Japanese universities have made some progress in that direction, but aren't quite there yet.

When it comes to objective rankings, I think the criterion usually rewards a school for having a lot of foreign students and punishes a school for having faculty with doctorates from the same school. So Japanese universities are really starting with their foot in a hole when it comes to those rankings due to insularity as well.

Answer 4

That's a very very general question.

Don't think for a moment that they're all perfect students who all become successful. I had the pleasure of attending my fiance's lectures at several universities - and boy these students reminded me of America's university system, even the high school system! Students were talking, a lot of them didn't do thier homework, etc. One of them was even texting on the phone (which I noticed but my b/f didn't).

Kobe Shoin Women's Uni was the one that stuck out. I have never seen a more vandalized classroom in my LIFE, even in the public schools I teach here in the border city in the USA.
Apparently a lot of the classrooms there are like this. -_-.

Just info.

Answer 5

Ranking 2006
http://www.topuniversities.com/worlduniversityrankings/results/2006/top_200_universities/
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14321230/

3 or 4 listed within 100

Answer 6

i think they are already rank internationally?

if you mean to find a job outside japan,
well, then do the same like me, translate all your papers into english, copy them, sent them with ur CV to all the companies that you want to.