Institutional Overview & Campus Profile
Founded in 1884 as the Kyoto German School of Medicine and Pharmacy, Kyoto Pharmaceutical University (Kyoto Yakka Daigaku, known as Kyoyaku) is one of Japan's oldest and most prestigious private pharmaceutical institutions, celebrated for groundbreaking drug discovery chemistry, clinical pharmacotherapy, and cancer molecular biology.
- Institution type
- Private Specialized Pharmaceutical University
- Campus location
- Misasagi & Nakauchi Campuses, Yamashina-ku, Kyoto
- Accreditation
- Japan University Accreditation Association (JUAA) / MEXT / JPEC
- Admissions channel
- Kyoto Pharmaceutical University Center for Admissions
- Instruction language
- Japanese and English (graduate research tracks in English)
- Financial aid & support
- Kyoyaku Doctoral Research Fellowships, MEXT scholarships, and pharmaceutical industry endowed awards