QS ranking profile
Hiroshima University
This page presents clearly labeled QS ranking data for orientation. It does not verify programs, supervisors, funding, admission requirements, or the university's website.
- QS 2026 rank
- #480
- Down 6 places since 2025
- QS 2025 rank
- #474
- Overall score
- 33.2
Explore opportunities at Hiroshima University
Browse active research positions, doctoral fellowships, and university funding calls indexed from official faculties and verified sources.
QS indicators
Reported ranking indicators
Each indicator is scored out of 100 in the same QS snapshot as the summary above.
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Institution profile
How QS classifies this institution
QS groups institutions by size, subject range, and research output.
- Size
- Large
- About 12,000 to 30,000 students
- Subject range
- Focused
- Teaches a limited range of faculty areas
- Research intensity
- Very high
- Very high research output in the QS classification
- Region
- Asia
- QS regional grouping
University profile
About Hiroshima University
Editorial background written for orientation. Verify programs, funding, and admission on the university's official pages.
Hiroshima University's public map distinguishes schools, graduate fields, and research institutes
Hiroshima University presents separate public routes for schools, graduate schools, research promotion, and research institutes. Its school-level map includes integrated arts and sciences, letters, education, law, science, medicine, dentistry, pharmaceutical sciences, engineering, applied biological science, and informatics and data science. The graduate-school map includes humanities and social sciences, advanced science and engineering, integrated sciences for life, biomedical and health sciences, and innovation and practice for smart society. These categories give a reader a useful institutional structure, but they do not describe the method or research object of every local group.
The university's research news makes that point visible. Its public headlines include genome editing applied to a traditional herb, early signs of skin ageing, and an allergy test designed to identify relevant antibodies. Those are distinct examples involving plant genetics, biological ageing, and diagnostic testing. The presence of all three on a university research page does not mean that they use the same evidence or sit in the same unit. A specific question needs to be traced to the relevant institute, school, research centre, or named output before a close connection can be made.
Radiation biology, synchrotron science, semiconductor engineering, and data innovation occupy separate Hiroshima routes
Hiroshima University's research-institutes directory provides more focused places to investigate. It names the Research Institute for Radiation Biology and Medicine, the Research Institute for Synchrotron Radiation Science, the Research Institute for Semiconductor Engineering, the Research Center for Biomedical Engineering, and the Research Center for Radiation Disaster Medical Science. It also lists a Genome Editing Innovation Center, an Education and Research Center for Artificial Intelligence and Data Innovation, an Amphibian Research Center, an Institute for Foreign Language Research and Education, and other facilities. The directory is a map of named settings, not evidence that each setting is relevant to every question in a related field.
The names themselves suggest why careful separation matters. Radiation biology may involve cells, exposure records, biological mechanisms, and medical context. Synchrotron work may concern materials, beams, measurement, and physical structure. Semiconductor engineering can point toward devices, fabrication, circuits, or materials. A centre for artificial intelligence and data innovation may raise different issues around datasets, software, models, or human use. The public directory helps a reader choose where to look; a close project, publication, laboratory, or researcher page is needed before describing the work behind a specific topic.
The DP and DR programmes are a research-recognition framework, not a directory of open projects
Hiroshima University established its Distinguished Professors and Distinguished Researchers programmes in 2013. The public description presents them as frameworks for recognising senior and junior faculty members with distinguished research activity. It explains that selection considers objective evidence such as published work, academic awards, and other records of accomplishment. This framework says something about how the university identifies research distinction. It does not identify the topic, method, or present work of every appointee, so it cannot substitute for a focused research record.
A good Hiroshima University research note therefore uses the institutional map in stages. Name the object first, whether it is a plant genome, a radiation-related biological question, a semiconductor device, a data system, a language practice, or a social issue. Follow by identifying the material able to test it, such as samples, spectra, device readings, images, code, datasets, texts, interviews, or records. The next page should be the narrowest public source that joins that evidence to a unit or researcher. This keeps the profile practical without confusing a university-wide framework with a documented research setting.