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The University has concluded academic exchange agreements that mainly involve the students of the Faculty and the Graduate School Maritime Sciences with the following 31 educational institutions (as of April 15, 2024). Exchange agreements are concluded in order to facilitate activities in research and educational fields that both parties are interested in, and they include exchanging faculty members and students, conducting joint research, and sharing information.
The educational institutions marked with an ∗ in the table are those for which detailed regulations on the implementation of students exchanges have also been agreed in order to establish a system in which credits obtained by students at the exchange educational institution are recognized by Kobe University (an exchange-study system) and for which the students do not have to pay special tuition fees at the other educational institution (mutual special tuition fees exemption system). If you wish to apply for an exchange-study program at one of these educational institutions, please consult with the relevant administrative section (student affairs section of Academic / Student Affairs Group) in advance.
The following list does not contain all of the universities and educational institutions (educational-agreement institutions) that the whole Faculties of Kobe University have concluded agreements with. You can confirm information on those educational institutes on the University's website (Partner Universities).
| University name | Country / region | Overview of the institution |
|---|---|---|
| North America | ||
| Maine Maritime Academy (MMA) |
United States of America | A public university (founded in 1941) located in Castine, Maine, USA, with approximately 950 students specializing in maritime-related engineering, international business, logistics, science, and transportation. Its graduate school offers courses in the fields of international logistics and maritime management. |
| California State University Maritime Academy (CAL Maritime) |
United States of America | After the exchange agreement with California Maritime Academy was concluded, this institution became part of the California State University organization. The Maritime Academy, which is located in Vallejo, California, USA, is an institution providing a maritime and maritime-related education and has faculty-level courses in international business, logistics, engineering, navigation, marine engineering, maritime transport, and machine engineering. |
| Massachusetts Maritime Academy | United States of America | Massachusetts Maritime University is a state university founded in 1891 with approximately 1,300 undergraduate students. The university has seven programmes in its faculty Facilities Engineering, Marine Engineering, Energy Systems Engineering, International Maritime Business, Marine Transportation, Emergency Management, Marine Science, Safety, and Environmental Protection. It has three postgraduate programmes: Master of Science in Maritime Business Management、Master of Science in Facilities Management、Master of Science in Emergency Management. |
| Oceania | ||
| ∗University of Tasmania Australian Maritime College |
Australia | After the exchange agreement was concluded, Australian Maritime College (AMC) became part of the University of Tasmania organization. AMC is a national institution conducting maritime and maritime-related education and research, and its main education and research fields are navigation, management and logistics, maritime technologies, and the marine environment. |
| Europe | ||
| World Maritime University (WMU) |
IMO (located in Sweden) |
This graduate-school university located in Malmo, Sweden, was founded in 1983 by the International Maritime Organization (IMO). It has more than 100 (full-time and visiting) members on its teaching faculty from all over the world, and it carries out advanced technical education and research for students on its graduate school courses |
| ∗Istanbul Teknik Üniversitesi (ITU MF) |
Republic of Turkey | An exchange agreement was concluded with the Maritime Faculty. The Maritime Faculty is a historic institution whose predecessor was the Merchant Navy Boarding School founded in 1884 in Tuzla City, Istanbul Province. The International Association of Maritime Universities (IAMU) was established in November 1999 through a joint proposal with this Faculty. |
| Université de Strasbourg | Republic of France | This is a large-scale public university with its main site located in Strasbourg, France, with over 40,000 students and around 2,600 faculty members. It is also a historic university, with its predecessor academy being established in 1566 and it awarding university degree qualifications from 1621. From 1968 to 2008, it was divided into 3 universities, but they were reintegrated in 2009, which brings it up to the present day. |
| ∗Institut National des Sciences Appliquées LYON (INSA Lyon) |
Republic of France | An exchange agreement was concluded alongside the agreements with other Kobe University graduate schools (Graduate School of Engineering and Graduate School of System Informatics) It is a university specializing in engineering located in Lyon, France. Its features include around 40% of its students are women and around 30% are international students, and it offers five year engineering education courses on campus. |
| Université Paris Cité | Republic of France | Université Paris Cité was integrated and restructured with several universities from 2019. It is a top-ranked comprehensive university with 14 campuses. It is an important player in the history, culture and science of Europe and the world, with a total student population of over 64,000, 7,250 teachers and more than 5,000 international students. |
| ∗University of Rijeka | Republic of Croatia | An agreement was concluded with the Faculty of Maritime Studies of this university. The Faculty of Maritime Studies is a historic faculty that began in the late 1800s as a school for sailors. It has approximately 100 teaching faculty members (of who, 15 are professors) and around 1,800 students (there are approximately 20,000 students in the entire university). |
| Vrije Universiteit Brussel | Kingdom of Belgium | Vrije Universiteit Brussel is a public university in Brussels, Belgium, founded in 1834 as a Catholic university. Today, it has nine faculties of Medicine and Pharmacy, Engineering, Languages and Humanities, Physical Education and Physiotherapy, Psychology and Educational Sciences, Law and Criminology,Social Sciences and Solvay Business School. It has over 21,000 students from 145 countries and 4,000 staff. |
| Asia | ||
| ∗Shanghai Maritime University (SMU) |
People's Republic of China | It predecessor was the Shipping Section established in Shanghai Industrial College in 1909, and it was founded as SMU in 1959. Currently, it is a comprehensive university conducting education and research in marine logistics technologies and engineering, specializing in economics and management, business administration, economics, law, the liberal arts, and the sciences. |
| ∗Dalian Maritime University (DMU) |
People's Republic of China | Its predecessor was the Shipping Section of the Shanghai Industrial College (founded in 1909), the same as Shanghai Maritime University. It was named DMU in 1994 (up to that point it had been Dalian Marine College, established in 1953). Today, it is a comprehensive university specializing in the maritime transport field comprised of 16 organizations (graduate schools, centers, etc.) |
| ∗Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) |
People's Republic of China | An agreement was concluded with the School of Naval Architecture, Ocean and Civil Engineering, and the School of Mechanical Engineering. The School of Naval Architecture, Ocean and Civil Engineering conducts education and research in the fields of shipbuilding engineering, ocean engineering, mechanical engineering, civil engineering, construction, international ship management, and harbor and coastal engineering, and the School of Mechanical Engineering in the fields of mechanical engineering and automation, power and energy engineering, production engineering and logistics engineering, nuclear science and systems engineering, and aerospace engineering. |
| ∗Ocean University of China (OUC) |
People's Republic of China | An exchange agreement was concluded with the Ocean Development Research Institute in this university. It is a comprehensive university founded in 1924 in Qingdao City, China, that emphasizes the scientific fields of oceanography and fisheries science. Its total number of students, including undergraduate, postgraduate, and adult-learner students, is in excess of 45,000 students, and its approximately 3,000 faculty members provide them with education and research guidance. |
| ∗Korea Maritime and Ocean University (KMOU) |
Republic of Korea | It as national university in Busan, South Korea, that is the leading institution in South Korea specializing in the marine and maritime fields (in 2013, its name was changed from Korea Maritime University to Korea Maritime and Ocean University). Today, it not only trains seafarers, but also provides advanced education and research through its undergraduate courses in fields such as the maritime sciences, marine sciences and engineering, engineering, and international relations, and offers graduate school courses in maritime industry, marine sciences and engineering, and education. |
| ∗Kunsan National University (KNU) |
Republic of Korea | It is a national university established in 1979 in Kunsan City, South Korea, and it is a comprehensive university comprised of six faculties in the humanities, the arts, the social sciences, the natural sciences, engineering, and the maritime sciences. The graduate school offers two types of courses, general courses and specialist courses, with the general courses including courses on the humanities and social sciences, natural sciences, engineering, and the arts and physical education, and the specialist courses including courses on industrial science, management administration, and pedagogy. |
| ∗Mokpo National Maritime University (MMU) |
Republic of Korea | It is a university specializing in maritime education in Mokpo City, which is on the south coast of South Korea. Its predecessor was the Mokpo Fisheries and Marine High School established in 1950. Subsequently, it became an institution training crew for merchant ships, and today, it conducts education and research from its departments of computer engineering, ship ocean engineering, environmental engineering and biotechnology, and marine civil engineering. |
| ∗National Taiwan Ocean University (NTOU) |
Taiwan | It was founded as a university in 1953 with a single maritime-related faculty. Today, it has seven faculties of maritime sciences and management, life sciences, ocean science and resources, engineering, electrical engineering and computer sciences, and humanities and social sciences. |
| ∗National Kaohsiung University of Science and Technology (NKUST) |
Taiwan | Exchange agreements were concluded with this university's College of Management, College of Maritime Affairs, and College of Ocean Engineering. The university was established in 1948 to promote the economy of and trade in Kaohsiung City in southern Taiwan. It has four departments in electronic communication engineering, microelectronics engineering, marine environment engineering, and naval architecture and ocean engineering and technology. |
| National Chung Hsing University (NCHU) |
Taiwan | National Chung Hsing University began as the Advanced Academy of Agronomy and Forestry, which became a national university and was renamed NCHU in 1971. The university is comprised of 9 colleges; Liberal Arts, Agriculture and Natural Resources, Science, Engineering, Life Sciences, Veterinary Medicine, Management, Law and Politics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 9 extension education centers, 4 Experimental Forest Stations, Veteran General Hospital, and 2 experimental farms. Currently, there are approximately 17,000 students, 770 teaching staff in NCHU. |
| ∗Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember (ITS) |
Republic of Indonesia | This is an engineering university established in Surabaya City, Indonesia in 1960, which today has five faculties in mathematics and the natural sciences, industrial technology, civil engineering and planning, marine technology, and information technology. |
| Universitas Lampung (UNILA) |
Republic of Indonesia | An exchange agreement was concluded alongside the agreement with the Faculty of Natural Sciences, Kobe University. This university in Lampung Province on the southern tip of Sumatra was founded in 1965 and it established graduate school courses in 1999. |
| Universitas Muhammadiyah Surakarta | Republic of Indonesia | Universitas Muhammadiyah Surakarta was established in 1981. It is a comprehensive university located in Central Java, Indonesia, and is a sister university of Universitas Gadjah Mada. It has 12 faculties, 24,000 undergraduate students, 1,000 postgraduate students and 600 staff. In the field of geosciences, the focus is on data analysis using remote sensing technology and geographic information systems (GIS), with the aim of teaching expertise and training entrepreneurs. In addition, they contribute to the community through training, guidance, counselling and assistance in using these skills to solve community development problems. |
| Universitas Gadjah Mada | Republic of Indonesia | Universitas Gadjah Mada is a national university in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, founded in 1949. It is a comprehensive university with 18 faculties, including the Faculty of Law, Economics and Business, Engineering, Agriculture, Medicine, Public Health, and Nursing, with more than 50,000 students and 4,000 teachers. It runs double and joint degree programmes with more than 120 universities. |
| Universitas Brawijaya | Republic of Indonesia | The Graduate School of Maritime Sciences has an interdepartmental agreement with the Engineering Faculty of the University of Brawijaya. Universitas Brawijaya is a state university established in 1963. It is one of the leading universities in Indonesia with a faculty of law, economics and business, administrative sciences, agriculture, animal science, engineering, medical, fisheries and marine sciences, mathematics and natural sciences, agricultural technology, social sciences and political sciences, cultural studies, veterinary medicine, computer science, dentistry and health sciences with 3,800 teachers and over 60,000 students. |
| The University of Danang | Socialist Republic of Vietnam | This comprehensive university began in 1975 as a training and research institute, before being established as a university in 1994. It has approximately 92,000 students and 1,400 faculty members, making it the largest university in the central region of Vietnam. |
| University of the Philippines (UP Diliman) |
Republic of the Philippines | An exchange agreement was concluded with this university's Diliman School, together with its agreement with other Kobe University faculties. The University of the Philippines is a national university founded in 1908 and it is the top ranked university within the Philippines, consisting of about 4,000 faculty members, approximately 53,000 students, 10 campus, and 1 open university. |
| Thammasat University | Kingdom of Thailand | Thammasat University was established in 1934. It is Thailand's second oldest national university and is currently a comprehensive university with over 20 faculties, including sociology, humanities, science and technology and health sciences. The Graduate School of Maritime Sciences has signed an agreement with the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Faculty of Science and Technology, Thammasat University, on student exchange for education and research in 2021. |
| Universiti Putra Malaysia | Malaysia | Universiti Putra Malaysia is a public university, founded in 1931 as the College of Agricultural Sciences. It was changed to the current university name in 1997. As a higher education institution encompassing education and research in the faculties of science, engineering, medicine and health sciences, veterinary medicine and education, as well as agriculture, it plays a central role not only in Malaysia but also in Asia. With a total student population of approximately 29,000 and more than 5,500 international students from 70 countries, it is one of Malaysia's leading universities. |
| Africa | ||
| University of Namibia (UNAM) |
Republic of Namibia | The University of Namibia (UNAM) is the largest national university in the Republic of Namibia, and was established in 1992 shortly after its independence from the Republic of South Africa. The university is comprised of over 12 faculties such as Faculty of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Economic and Management Sciences, Education, and others. There are over 20,000 students and 2,500 teaching staff. UNAM is one of the best universities in Africa, ranking within the Top 10 universities on the continent. |
