Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology


Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology: JAIST is a postgraduate university in Japan, established in 1990.
JAIST was established in the centre of Ishikawa Science Park. It is to the south of Kanazawa City. JAIST has programs of advanced research and development in science and technology. This university has several satellite campuses: Shinagawa Campus in Shinagawa, Tokyo, open course in Information Technology and Management of Technology, and satellite lectures in Kanazawa City and Toyama City.
In The 21st Century Center Of Excellence Program, JSPS granted two programs to JAIST. One program is the "Technology Creation based on Knowledge Science", and the other program is "Verifiable and Evolvable E-Society".

History

All individual schools have MSc and Ph.D. programs. The MSc programs standard term is two to three years and the Ph.D. programs' standard term length is three years.

Rankings

JAIST has been ranked highly amongst Japanese Universities, coming 26th in Japan in the Webometrics Ranking of World Universities. In UniRank's 2017 ranking of Japanese universities, JAIST came in 25th place and 130th in Asia.

Location