Introduction to Osaka University

Outline of Faculty Numbers

All data posted below are accurate as of May 1, 2016.

Faculty members categorized by age

Age group	Number of:
Age group	Professors	Associate Professors	Lecturers	Assistant Professors	Assistants	Total
25 - 34	1	17	19	386	0	423
35 - 44	45	366	123	613	1	1,148
45 - 54	326	353	88	148	5	920
55 - 64	531	88	13	23	6	661
Over 65	29	1	1	0	0	31
Total	932	825	244	1,170	12	3,183

• 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	55	Engineering	395	133
Human Sciences	91	47	Engineering Science	188	62
Law	39	21	Language and Culture	145	66
Economics	47	23	International Public Policy	32	16
Science	220	72	Information Science and Technology	78	29
Medicine	423	81	Frontier Biosciences	68	23
Dentistry	82	18	Law School	21	16
Pharmaceutical Sciences	46	17	United Graduate School of Child Development, Osaka University, Kanazawa University, and Hamamatsu University, School of Medicine	14	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
857	75	724	101	188	56	964	206	3	9	3,183	2,736	447	14.04%

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