Kobe University

Formally established in 1949, Kobe University is a national university based in western Japan. Its roots date back further, to 1902, when it was originally known as Kobe Higher Commercial School. Today, Kobe University is one of Japan’s leading comprehensive universities with 10 faculties and schools, 15 graduate schools and a great number of research centers and institutions. Taking advantage of our traditional strengths in the social sciences combined with more recent initiatives across the natural and biomedical sciences, Kobe University is promoting interdisciplinary research and education to become an outstanding research university. We are committed to creating knowledge and new values to address the challenges facing our society.

As Faculty of Social Sciences student of KU Leuven you can take courses from 3 different Graduate Schools at Kobe University, being the Graduate School of Economics, the Graduate School of Intercultural Studies and the Graduate School of Law. The Graduate School of Economics is one of the longest-standing centers of economics research in Japan. It is the largest among the national universities in the Kansai region and the largest or second largest in all of Japan in terms of number of fields of research and faculty members. The Graduate School of Economics is the oldest graduate course in Japan, offering research guidance and lectures by professors from the Faculty of Economics, and teachers specializing in economics from the Research Institute for Economics and Business Administration.