Introduction to Osaka University

Outline of Faculty Numbers

All data posted below are accurate as of May 1, 2017.

Faculty members categorized by age

Age group	Number of:
Age group	Professors	Associate Professors	Lecturers	Assistant Professors	Assistants	Total
25 - 34	0	13	24	393	0	430
35 - 44	51	364	129	618	0	1,162
45 - 54	319	359	97	148	5	928
55 - 64	521	102	19	29	7	678
Over 65	35	1	0	0	0	36
Total	926	839	269	1,188	12	3,234

• 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	99	53	Engineering	400	126
Human Sciences	91	44	Engineering Science	181	57
Law	40	19	Language and Culture	144	66
Economics	48	25	International Public Policy	34	16
Science	219	72	Information Science and Technology	76	28
Medicine	431	84	Frontier Biosciences	65	21
Dentistry	83	19	Law School	20	15
Pharmaceutical Sciences	41	16	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
843	83	723	116	211	58	971	217	3	9	3,234	2,751	483	14.93%

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