BY THE NUMBERS: FACTS AND FIGURES ABOUT THE SCHOOL

Hokkaido University owns not only the Sapporo campus in Kita Ward, Sapporo (about 1.7 square kilometers), but also many research forests and waterfront laboratories both inside and outside of Hokkaido. The total area of the university is about 660 square kilometers, which is larger than the 23 wards of Tokyo (627 square kilometers). The university has 12 faculties and 21 graduate schools with about 18,000 students in total, including about 11,500 undergraduates and 6,500 graduate students. There are about 2,000 faculty members, including professors, and about 1,900 general staff members. Notable alumni include Akira Suzuki, winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, and Hiroshi Kida, a Person of Cultural Merit known for his research on infectious diseases. The university is also actively promoting internationalization, and opened offices in Lomonosov Moscow State University in Russia and Portland State University in the United States in fiscal 2019, bringing the total number of overseas offices to 11. There are about 150 foreign faculty members, and about 2,100 international students from about 100 countries and regions. The university was ranked first in Japan and 76th in the world in the “University Impact Rankings 2020” published last year by Times Higher Education, a British magazine specializing in higher education. Although it is one of Hokkaido’s leading universities, not many of the enrolled students are from Hokkaido. As of May 2020, only 33%, or 842 students, of the 2,553 new students were from Hokkaido. Hokkaido University has become a target for high school students all over the country.