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In the 2025 edition of Japan’s “Truly Strong Universities” rankings (Weekly Toyo Keizai), Waseda University was ranked second overall among 562 national, public, and private universities nationwide for the second consecutive year.

According to this ranking, Waseda University is particularly highly rated for its international strength, with key contributing factors such as the number of overseas study partner institutions and the ratio of foreign faculty members, as well as its admissions quota ratio.

The “Truly Strong Universities” ranking is a multifaceted evaluation of a university’s overall strength based on 13 objective indicators, including educational and research capabilities, employment potential, financial strength, and international strength. It is a ranking that aims to reveal the underlying strength of a university that cannot be measured by entrance exam deviation scores.

The top schools for 2025 are as follows:

1st place: University of Tokyo
2nd place: Waseda University
3rd place: Keio University
4th place: Kyoto University
5th place: Tohoku University

For further details, please refer to the Toyo Keizai Weekly Special Edition and Toyo Keizai Online’s “2025 Truly Strong Universities” rankings (Japanese only).

Waseda University will celebrate its 150th anniversary in 2032. We will take this opportunity to return to the spirit of our founding and, based on the principle “Do not think only of your own interest, your family’s interest, or the interests of your country alone, but be ambitious to contribute to humankind throughout the world,” we will promote our 150th Anniversary  Project, aiming to evolve into “a university that contributes to humankind throughout the world” by 2050.