Introduction to Osaka University

Outline of Faculty Numbers

All data posted below are accurate as of May 1, 2018.

Faculty members categorized by age

Age group	Number of:
Age group	Professors	Associate Professors	Lecturers	Assistant Professors	Assistants	Total
25 - 34	0	17	26	349	0	392
35 - 44	58	339	147	611	0	1,155
45 - 54	319	370	100	161	5	955
55 - 64	536	121	22	30	7	716
Over 65	29	2	0	0	0	31
Total	942	849	295	1,151	12	3,249

• The above figures include specially appointed instructors, endowed course instructors, and endowed research instructors.

Full-time faculty numbers

School of	Number of full-time faculty members and of professors in that figure		School of	Number of full-time faculty members and of professors in that figure
School of		Prof.	School of		Prof.
Letters	97	50	Engineering	387	126
Human Sciences	90	46	Engineering Science	179	56
Law	38	21	Language and Culture	147	66
Economics	46	27	International Public Policy	33	15
Science	214	71	Information Science and Technology	75	30
Medicine	424	77	Frontier Biosciences	61	21
Dentistry	88	23	Law School	20	15
Pharmaceutical Sciences	44	15	United Graduate School of Child Development, Osaka University, Kanazawa University, and Hamamatsu University, School of Medicine	16	3

• The above figures do not include specially appointed instructors, endowed course instructors, and endowed research instructors.
• The above figures include only faculty members affiliated with graduate schools.

Faculty members categorized by gender

Rank	Total	Percentage of female faculty within TOTAL faculty numbers
Prof.	Associate Prof.	Lecturer	Assistant Prof.	Assistant
M	F	M	F	M	F	M	F	M	F	Grand Total	M	F
836	106	710	139	223	72	916	235	3	9	3,249	2,688	561	17.27%

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