Examination Schedule
October 2024 Admission
Type ofExamination

Application Period(The application must be postmarked withinthe period)

Examination Period(The designated one
day of the followingperiod)

Date of Notificationof Admission
Decision

RegularExamination

May 29 - June 11, 2024

July 6 - 7, 2024

July 19, 2024

Examination for
Admission on
Recommendation
for Overseas
Residents

Submission deadline for pre-check:May 15, 2024

Interview andApplication period:

Documentary screening

July 26, 2024

May 7 - 31, 2024

April 2025 Admission
Type of
Examination

RegularExamination

Application Period(The application must be postmarked withinthe period)

Date of Notificationof Admission
DecisionFirst
Examination

May 29 - June 11, 2024

July 6 - 7, 2024

July 19, 2024

SecondExamination

September 2 - 13, 2024

October 12 - 13, 2024

October 25, 2024

January 11 - 12, 2025

January 24, 2025

Third
Examination
Examination forAdmission on
Recommendation
for Overseas
Residents

Examination Period(The designated one
day of the followingperiod)

November 20- December 3, 2024

Submission deadline for pre-check:
November 14, 2024

Interview andApplication period:

Documentary screening

January 24, 2025

November 6 - 28, 2024

Note: Applicants who will graduate (or graduated) early from their university, and those who will complete (orcompleted) their bachelor’s degree in a foreign country may be required to pass through the Judgment of Eligibility
prior to applying. For details, please refer to the instructions for each type of examination.

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Mission and Goals

Mission
JAIST endeavors to foster leaders capable of contributing to the making of a future world by creation of science andtechnology through its most advanced education and research in an ideal academic environment.

Goals
࣭JAIST develops leaders in society or industry who hold credible expertise in the frontier science and technology,
broad perspectives, high level of autonomy and communication ability, through its systematic advanced graduate
education.
࣭JAIST, to contribute to societies with research outcomes, creates a center of excellence for advancement ofresearches for solving problems of our world and society and develops new fields through a variety of basic
researches.
࣭JAIST fosters active global human resources by promoting faculty and student exchanges with leading institutesoverseas and globalizing its education and research.

Admission Policy

JAIST looks for students who possess a strong will and a clear sense of purpose in pursuing study and research in
the fields of advanced science and technology based on Knowledge Science, Information Science and Materials
Science, who are capable of expressing their own ideas logically, and who have an attitude to make efforts toproduce mutual understanding through discussions. JAIST, as a university of postgraduate education without anundergraduate program, accepts applicants widely from bachelor’s degree holders, international students andworking professionals irrespective of their undergraduate major and background. Applicants are expected to havesolid understanding of what they have studied in their undergraduate major field and to be prepared for study andresearch at JAIST.
In the light of the image of students stated above, JAIST screens applicants by evaluating their basic knowledge,ability, and aspiration necessary for carrying out study and research at JAIST based on a short essay on theirresearch topic after admission, an oral examination (including an oral presentation and Q&A about basic knowledge
and their undergraduate major field), and a transcript of their undergraduate level school.
In the evaluation, JAIST emphasizes the result of the oral examination and uses submitted documents as reference.
As for the Admission on Recommendation, applicants are exempted from the oral examination and screened basedon submitted documents including the short essay and the recommendations.

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Diploma Policy

The Division of Advanced Science and Technology in the Graduate School of Advanced Science and Technology
at JAIST sets its educational goal in cultivating innovative talents in advanced science and technology who cantake active roles as leaders in society or industrial world with broad vision required in a sustainable society andcommunication ability in addition to specialization in advanced science and technology.
In the master’s program, a master’s degree in Knowledge Science, Information Science or Materials Science basedon student’s main academic fields will be conferred to those who have acquired the abilities listed below and havepassed either the Master Thesis Examination and the Final Examination, or the Ph.D. Qualifying Examination afterhaving obtained all the required credits.

Abilities to be acquired during the Master’s Program࣭Ability to understand fundamental concepts of advanced science and technology in the major field
࣭Ability to identify and solve problems by the application of specialized knowledge
࣭Ability to carry out academically and socially valuable research on their own initiative࣭Ability to challenge a different field from the major or an unexplored field
࣭Ability to comprehend diverse cultures and ability to communicate
࣭High ethical perspectives as a researcher or an engineer

Main Academic Fields
Knowledge Science: An academic field that integrates knowledge of design methodology, business management,
system science and others related to issues of human, organizations or society, proposes attractive solutions to theissues, and contemplate how to materialize the solutions

Information Science: An academic field that aims to solve problems for humanity and society, pioneer unexplored fields,
and produce new innovative basic theories, basic technologies and applications about information processing andcommunication that supports the information society

Materials Science: An academic field that produces new and innovative materials by aiming at solving for humanity
and society and pioneering unexplored fields based on physics, chemistry, biology and their relevant science andtechnology

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Research AreasOutlines

Keywords

Creative Society Design

Designing a creative society, where
everyone's ability brilliantly shines. An
intellectual odyssey towards
achieving rich quality of life byintegrating and transcending science,technology and art.

Creativity Support, Social Network, Design Thinking, Human Computer
Interaction, Media Interaction, Visual Computing, Disaster Science,
Resilience Engineering, Urban Design & Health, Network Science,Collaboration, Intercultural Communication, Pervasive Technology,
Embodied Cognition, STEAM Education, Data Science/AI Applications

Transformative Knowledge
Management

Our mission is to develop
Next-generation knowledge
management theories to promotesocial transformation and apply forpractical problem-solving to build awellbeing society.

Wellbeing, Knowledge Creation, Organizational Transformation, Green
Service Innovation, Sustainability, Value Design, IoT Design, Ethnography
in a Medical Setting, Business Ethnography, Next Generation Tourism,
Service Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence

Co-creative Intelligence

Our mission is to explore newintelligence that sustainably promotes
the development and evolution of theadvanced knowledge society throughresearch on the human – technology
co-creation of knowledge.

Knowledge Science, Knowledge Creation, Cognitive Science, DataScience, Artificial Intelligence, Language and Communication, Philosophyof Language, Decision Theory, Meta-Cognition, Educational Engineering,Complex Systems, Emergence-Evolution-Institution, Machine Learning,
Computational Science, Materials Informatics, Social Linguistics, Language
Policy, Creation Process, Idea Creation, Experiential Learning,
Collaborative Learning, Learning Process DesignComputing ScienceStudy computation, know the limits ofcomputation, and unveil methods ofthe right conclusion from an ocean ofdata.

Information Science, Information Security, Mathematical Logic, Artificial
Intelligence, Automated Theorem Proving, Formal Methods, TheoreticalComputer Science, Data Science, Distributed System, Algorithms,
Information Theory

Next-generation Digital
Infrastructure

Next-generation Digital Infrastructure
Research Area performs researchand graduate education on thefundamentals of ICT systems, torealize and extend comfortable,dependable, secure E-Society.

Smart City, Cyber Security, IoT, Internet, Information Systems, Embedded
Systems, Software Engineering, Formal Methods, Next-generation
Wireless and Sensor Communications, VSLI Design, AI Platform

Human Information Science

Investigating mechanisms of human
information processing and applying
them to the advanced information
processing systems

Perceptual and Intelligent Information Processing, Social Signal
Processing, Multimodality, Communication, Education/learning Technology,
Game Informatics, Natural Language Processing, Audio/speech Signal
Processing, Image/video Signal Processing, Human Interface, Intelligent
Robotics

Sustainable Innovation

To produce INNOVATION in building
sustainable systems of environment,
energy, economy, and society

Sustainable Energy, Thermoelectrics, Solar Cells, Artificial
Photosyntheses, Natural Molecules, Silent Voice Sensing, Materials
Informatics, Artificial Intelligence, Quantum Simulation, Eco-friendly
Process

Materials Chemistry Frontiers

Explore frontier of materials chemistry
through molecular/atomic level designof new materials utilizing advanced
knowledge in the field of chemistry

Nanomaterials Chemistry, Polymer Chemistry, Green Chemistry, CatalyticChemistry, Energy Related Materials, Eco-friendly Materials, Biomaterials,Materials Informatics, Nano Machine, High-speed AFM Imaging, Rheology,
Optically Functionalized Materials, Operando Analysis

Nanomaterials and Devices

Our mission is to study cutting-edge
science and technology ofnanomaterials and devices for therealization of sustainable super-smart
society.

Nanoparticles, Nanowires, Two-dimensional Materials, Emerging
Nanomaterials, Nanofabrication, Nanoimaging, Nanometrology,
Nanospectroscopy, Quantum Technology, Sensing, Electronics,Spintronics, Nanopaper Devices, Organic Devices, Digital Transformation,
Data-driven Materials Science, Soft Robotics, Tactile Sensing

Bioscience, Biotechnology,and Biomedical Engineering

We will investigate cutting-edge
technologies based on understandingof biological functions, and develop
their applications in biomedical fields.

Biotechnology, Biomedical, Protein, DNA/RNA, Biomembrane, Sugar
Chain, Biomolecular Analysis, Artificial Biomolecule Creation, Biodevice,
Gene Editing, Molecular Robotics

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