Introduction to Osaka University

Outline of Faculty Numbers

All data posted below are accurate as of May 1, 2019.

Faculty members categorized by age

Age group	Number of:
Age group	Professors	Associate Professors	Lecturers	Assistant Professors	Assistants	Total
25 - 34	0	20	31	347	0	398
35 - 44	57	307	147	601	0	1,112
45 - 54	344	377	110	172	5	1,008
55 - 64	524	121	22	36	4	707
Over 65	33	0	0	0	0	33
Total	958	825	310	1,156	9	3,258

• 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	93	50	Engineering	380	131
Human Sciences	88	43	Engineering Science	178	60
Law	38	22	Language and Culture	148	65
Economics	50	27	International Public Policy	31	14
Science	223	72	Information Science and Technology	73	29
Medicine	407	78	Frontier Biosciences	63	21
Dentistry	90	23	Law School	20	15
Pharmaceutical Sciences	46	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
862	96	678	147	236	74	895	261	2	7	3,258	2,673	585	17.96%

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