Waseda claims 1st position across 16 publicly funded research fields
Tue, Nov 14, 2017-
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The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) of Japan announced the top 10 research institutions for each newly funded research field approved over the past five years (2013 – 2017) under the Grants-in-Aid Scientific Research project.
Out of the 336 research fields, Waseda University claimed top position in 16 research fields, doubling from a total of eight last year. Among all public and private research institutions, Waseda University came in 5th in overall ranking for having the most number of research fields ranked number one. In addition, Waseda is ranked 1st across all private universities in Japan under the same ranking.
The 16 research fields which the University attained 1st position are as follows (in alphabetical order):
- Chinese Literature
- Civil Law
- Criminal Law
- Educational Psychology
- Educational Technology
- Finance
- Foreign Language Education
- International Law
- International Relations
- Japanese Language Education
- Japanese Literature
- Mathematical Analysis
- New Frontier Law
- Politics
- Public Law
- Tourism