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About OIT

Osaka Institute of Technology (OIT) is a private university in Osaka, Japan. It started as “Kansai Engineering Technical School” in 1922, and it gained a 4-year university status and changed its name to “Osaka Institute of Technology” in1949.
It has three campuses: the Omiya Campus is a main campus located in Asahi-ku, Osaka, the Umeda Campus is a new campus opened in 2017 in Downtown Osaka, and the Hirakata Campus is in Hirakata City on the foothill between Osaka and Kyoto.

Our Mission

For the world, for the people and for the community,
to develop specialists with science-based practical skills who play an important role in society.

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Number of Students

Total Number of Students

as of May 1, 2023

Undergraduate

1st yr. 2nd yr. 3rd yr. 4th yr. Total Female %
Faculty of Engineering 921 907 935 1,008 3,771 13.6%
Faculty of Robotics and Design 314 296 324 321 1,255 22.0%
Faculty of Information Science and Technology 474 425 524 480 1,903 10.2%
Faculty of Intellectual Property 150 147 158 143 598 12.5%
Total 1,859 1,775 1,941 1,952 7,527 14.1%

Graduate Schools

Master's Courses
1st yr. 2nd yr. Total Female %
Graduate School of Engineering 180 162 342 10.8%
Graduate School of Robotics and Design 44 44 88 23.9%
Graduate School of Information Science and Technology 42 34 76 7.9%
Total 266 240 506 12.6%
Professional Master Course
1st yr. 2nd yr. Total Female %
Graduate School of Intellectual Property 50 48 98 25.5%
Doctoral Courses
1st yr. 2nd yr. 3rd yr. Total Female %
Graduate School of Engineering 2 1 7 10 20.0%
Graduate School of Robotics and Design 0 0 3 3 0%
Graduate School of Information Science and Technology 0 2 0 2 0%
Total 2 3 10 15 13.3%

International Students

Undergraduate
Faculty of Engineering 36
Faculty of Robotics and Design 9
Faculty of Information Science and Technology 5
Faculty of Intellectual Property 0
Total 50
Master's Courses
Graduate School of Engineering 7
Graduate School of Robotics and Design 2
Graduate School of Information Science and Technology 2
Total 11
Professional Master Course
Graduate School of Intellectual Property 2
Doctoral Courses
Graduate School of Engineering 0
Graduate School of Robotics and Design 0
Graduate School of Information Science and Technology 0
Total 0

No. of Students per Staff

No. of Students per Staff
Number of Faculty Number of Students No. of students per staff
Undergraduate 252 7,527 29.9
Graduate Schools 205 483 2.4
Graduate School of Intellectual Property 11 98 8.9
Total 291 8,146 28.0

Number of Faculty and Staff

as of May 1, 2023

Omiya Campus

Professor Associate Professor Assistant Professor Research Associate Total
Specialized Education Faculty of Engineering 56 36 12 1 105
Faculty of Intellectual Property 9 3 0 0 11
Graduate School of Intellectual Property 9 2 0 0 11
General Education (Humanities)_Faculty of Engineering 7 4 4 0 15
General Education (Humanities)_Faculty of Intellectual Property 1 1 1 0 3
General Education (Science and Technology)_Faculty of Engineering 10 4 3 0 17
Teaching Profession Course, Education Center, Computing Center, etc. 14 4 9 1 28
Total 106 54 29 2 191

Umeda Campus

Professor Associate Professor Assistant Professor Research Associate Total
Specialized Education 18 10 3 0 31
General Education (Humanities) 0 1 1 0 2
General Education (Science and Technology) 1 1 0 0 2
Total 19 12 4 0 35

Hirakata Campus

Professor Associate Professor Assistant Professor Research Associate Total
Specialized Education 28 14 10 0 52
General Education (Humanities) 3 4 2 0 9
General Education (Science and Technology) 3 1 0 0 4
Yawata Engineering Laboratory 1 01 0 0 1
Total 35 19 12 0 63

Total Number of Faculty

Professor Associate Professor Assistant Professor Research Associate Total
159 85 45 2 291

Part-time lecturers, visiting professors, engineers, etc. are not included.

Administrative Staff

Full-time Full-time Contract Temporary Temporarily Transferred Total
112 61 4 1 178

Part-time staff is not included.

Career Path

Employment rate based on the number of graduates who wished to get employed

Faculty (Undergraduate) Department 2020 (*1) 2021 (*2) 2022 (*3)
Faculty of Engineering Department of Civil Engineering and Urban Design 100.0% 100.0% 100.0%
Department of Architecture 93.2% 97.2% 97.4
Department of Electrical and Electronic Systems Engineering 94.8% 95.4% 100.0%
Department of Mechanical Engineering 97.8% 98.3% 96.2%
Department of Applied Chemistry 92.7% 95.5% 97.6%
Department of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineering 92.0% 95.7% 100.0%
Department of Environmental Engineering 95.3% 96.7% 100.0%
Department of Design and Architecture 100.0% - -
Department of Biomedical Engineering 98.2% 93.3% 100.0%
Department of Robotics 75.0% 50.0% -
Department of Electronics and Information Systems Engineering - - 100.0%
sum 95.2% 96.4% 98.7%
Faculty of Robotics and Design Department of Robotics 95.5 96.5 95.8%
Department of System Design 98.3% 94.5% 97.4%
Department of Design and Architecture 94.6% 100.0% 95.9%
sum 96.0% 97.2% 96.4%
Faculty of Information Science and Technology Department of Computer Science 98.3% 97.2% 92.9%
Department of Information Systems 98.6% 95.2% 98.9%
Department of Media Science 92.5% 95.3% 100.0%
Department of Information Networks 97.5% 96.2% 100.0%
Department of Information and Computer Science - - 98.4%
Department of Network Design - - 98.8%
sum 96.6% 96.0% 98.8%
Faculty of Intellectual Property Department of Intellectual Property 95.0% 97.6% 97.1%
Total 95.6% 96.5% 98.2%
Graduate School Course 2020 (*1) 2021 (*2) 2022 (*3)
Graduate School of Engineering Architecture 100.0% 100.0% 100.0%
Civil Engineering and Urban Design 100.0% 100.0% 100.0%
Electrical and Electronic Engineering 97.0% 100.0% 100.0%
Mechanical Engineering 96.4% 100.0% 100.0%
Applied Chemistry 92.0% 100.0% 100.0%
Environmental Engineering 100.0% 100.0% 92.3%
Biomedical Engineering 100.0% 100.0% 100.0%
sum 96.7% 100.0% 99.2%
Graduate School of Robotics and Design Mechatronics 100.0% 100.0% -
Soft Robotics 100.0% 100.0% -
Robotics - - 100.0%
System Design - - 90.9%
Product Design - 100.0% 100.0%
Architectural Design Course 100.0% 85.7% 100.0%
sum 100.0% 97.0% 97.6%
Graduate School of Information Science and Technology Information Science and Technology 96.9% 97.6% 100.0%
Graduate School of Intellectual Property Intellectual Property 92.6% 96.8% 94.4%
Total 96.7% 98.6% 98.4%

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