A comprehensive research university with 10 faculties and 15 graduate schools with outstanding features and strengths
Kobe University conducts cutting-edge research and outstanding international education across the breadth of the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and life and medical sciences for the development and enrichment of society.
Undergraduate faculties
- Faculty of Agriculture
- School of Business Administration
- Faculty of Intercultural Studies
- Faculty of Economics
- Faculty of Engineering
- Faculty of Global Human Sciences
- Faculty of Human Development
- Faculty of Law
- Faculty of Letters
- Faculty of Maritime Sciences
- School of Medicine
- Faculty of Oceanology
- Faculty of Science
Graduate Schools
- Graduate School of Health Sciences
- Graduate School of Agricultural Science
- Graduate School of Business Administration
- Graduate School of Intercultural Studies
- Graduate School of Economics
- Graduate School of Engineering
- Graduate School of International Cooperation Studies
- Graduate School of Human Development and Environment
- Graduate School of Law
- Graduate School of Humanities
- Graduate School of Maritime Sciences
- Graduate School of Medicine
- Graduate School of Science
- Graduate School of Science, Technology and Innovation
- Graduate School of System Informatics
Institutes
- Institute of Promoting Academic Research Programs
- Institute for Promoting International Partnerships
- Digital Bio/Life Sciences Research Park Promotion Division
- Institute for Promotion of Higher Education (Japanese only)
Libraries, Hospitals, Joint Facilities, etc.
Organization for the Advancement of Interscholastic Co-Educational Research
- Value School (Japanese only)
- Research Center for Inland Seas
- Molecular Photoscience Research Center
- Center for Social Systems Innovation
- Center for Computational Social Science
- Engineering Biology Research Center
- Center of Optical Scattering Image Science
- Kobe Biotechnology Research and Human Resource Development Center
- Biosignal Research Center
- Research Center for Urban Safety and Security
- Kobe Ocean-Bottom Exploration Center
- Center for Mathematical and Data Sciences (Japanese only)
- Center for Advanced Medical Engineering Research & Development
- Advanced Research Center for Well-being
- Integrated Research Center (Japanese only)
- Hydrogen and Future Energy Technology Research Center
Intra-school Co-Management and Supporting Organizations
Organizations, sites, and other facilities directly under the president
- Enterprise Partnerships Division
- Information Infrastructure and Digital Transformation Initiatives Headquarters
- Office for the Promotion of Well-being (Japanese only)
- Office for Conflict of Interest Management (Japanese only)
- Office for Promoting Recurrent Education
- Office for Promoting Regional Partnership (Japanese only)
- Carbon Neutral Promotion Headquarters (Japanese only)
- On-Campus Exhibition Facilities
- Kobe University Archives (Japanese only)
- Joint Usage Educational Facilities