Figures are accurate as of May 1, 2021

Region	Country/region	Number of students
	India	48 (31)
	Indonesia	132 (61)
	Cambodia	6 (4)
	Singapore	10 (7)
	Sri Lanka	14 (7)
	Thailand	105 (43)
	Nepal	4 (2)
	Pakistan	8 (6)
	Bangladesh	18 (11)
	Philippines	33 (24)
	Brunei Darussalam	35 (0)
	Vietnam	90 (37)
	Malaysia	33 (19)
	Myanmar	16 (11)
	Mongolia	15 (14)
	Laos	1 (0)
	Taiwan	68 (0)
	South Korea	201 (52)
	China	1,417 (44)
	Hong Kong	9 (2)
Middle East	Afghanistan	1 (1)
	Yemen	1 (0)
	Israel	1 (1)
	Iran	12 (6)
	Oman	3 (0)
	Saudi Arabia	3 (1)
	Syria	7 (7)
	Turkey	9 (7)
	Jordan	3 (3)
	Lebanon	2 (2)
Africa	Algeria	1 (1)
	Angola	1 (1)
	Uganda	1 (1)
	Egypt	17 (11)
	Ethiopia	3 (2)
	Cameroon	1 (1)
	Gambia	1 (1)
	Guinea	2 (2)
	Kenya	3 (1)
	Sudan	7 (4)
	Tunisia	3 (2)
	Nigeria	7 (6)
	Burkina Faso	2 (2)
	Benin	1 (0)
	Madagascar	2 (1)
	Malawi	2 (2)
	Mozambique	2 (2)
	Liberia	1 (1)
	South Africa	1 (1)
Oceania	Australia	3 (2)
	New Zealand	1 (1)
	Independent State of Samoa	1 (1)
	Tonga	1 (1)
	Fiji	1 (1)
North America	USA	14 (6)
North America	Canada	3 (2)
Latin America	Argentina	3 (2)
	Uruguay	1 (1)
	Ecuador	1 (1)
	El Salvador	4 (3)
	Cuba	3 (3)
	Guatemala	1 (1)
	Columbia	2 (2)
	Dominican Republic	1 (1)
	Haiti	1 (1)
	Paraguay	1 (1)
	Brazil	24 (20)
	Venezuela	1 (1)
	Peru	7 (5)
	Bolivia	1 (1)
	Honduras	2 (1)
	Mexico	3 (1)
Europe	Ireland	2 (0)
	Azerbaijan	3 (1)
	Albania	1 (0)
	U.K.	12 (3)
	Italy	5 (1)
	Ukraine	6 (4)
	Uzbekistan	4 (3)
	Austria	1 (1)
	Netherlands	2 (2)
	Kazakhstan	4 (2)
	Croatia	2 (0)
	Switzerland	6 (3)
	Sweden	4 (0)
	Spain	7 (0)
	Slovakia	2 (1)
	Slovenia	1 (1)
	Tajikistan	1 (0)
	Denmark	2 (2)
	Germany	26 (1)
	Norway	2 (0)
	Hungary	8 (5)
	Finland	5 (0)
	France	22 (2)
	Bulgaria	7 (7)
	Belarus	2 (1)
	Belgium	1 (0)
	Poland	7 (5)
	Bosnia and Herzegovina	1 (1)
	Latvia	1 (0)
	Romania	4 (4)
	Luxembourg	1 (1)
	Russia	21 (12)
Total		2,612 (565)

( ) indicates Japanese Government Scholarship Student

School	Number of international students
School of Letters/Graduate School of Letters	172 (15)
School of Human Sciences/ Graduate School of Human Sciences	183 (41)
School of Foreign Studies	110 (1)
School of Law/Graduate School of Law and Politics	85 (7)
School of Economics/Graduate School of Economics	242 (22)
School of Science/Graduate School of Science	195 (24)
School of Medicine/Graduate School of Medicine	165 (30)
School of Dentistry/Graduate School of Dentistry	25 (5)
School of Pharmaceutical Sciences/Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences	63 (6)
School of Engineering/Graduate School of Engineering	583 (161)
School of Engineering Science/Graduate School of Engineering Science	190 (63)
Graduate School of Language and Culture	199 (30)
Osaka School of International Public Policy	86 (15)
Graduate School of Information Science and Technology	95 (20)
Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences	68 (15)
Osaka University Law School	4 (1)
Joint Graduate School of Child Development	10 (1)
Research Institute for Microbial Diseases	1 (0)
Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research	6 (1)
Institute for Protein Research	7 (1)
Institute of Social and Economic Research	5 (0)
Joining and Welding Research Institute	3 (0)
Institute of Laser Engineering	3 (0)
Center for International Education and Exchange	1 (1)
Center for Japanese Language and Culture	105 (105)
Total	2,612 (565)

( ) Japanese Government Scholarship Student

Financed by	Under-graduate	Graduate			Research students , etc.	Total
Financed by	Under-graduate	Master’s course	Doctor’s course	Total	Research students , etc.	Male Students	Female Students	Total
Government	99	94	235	329	137	326	239	565
At own expense	252	726	654	1,380	415	995	1,052	2,047
Total	351	820	889	1,709	552	1,321	1,291	2,612

Note: The term "international student" is used here for students with the resident status of "exchange student" stipulated in Exhibit 1 of The Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act.

International student numbers