Cooperative Research Guidance and Double Degree Program

Hokkaido University is a flagship university for leading the internationalization of Japanese universities and offers double degree and cotutelle programs with top-ranking universities around the world.

These international degree programs are the best way to combine your professional career and higher education goals. Hokkaido University has 30 programs and more for passionate students who want to see the diversity of the world.

What is a Double Degree Program?
The Double Degree Program is an international joint education program and enables students to obtain two degrees (from Hokkaido University and a partner university) when students complete the educational program at the same academic level and meet the requirements for graduation at each university.

What is a Cooperative Research Guidance

CRG is an educational program for whichagreements are made between HokkaidoUniversity and overseas universities to allow master’s or doctoral students to receive research guidance from faculty members of each university for the “specified period”. The “specified period” is generally between 6 months to 1 year for masterʼs programs and at least 1 year for doctoral programs.

The policy of Cooperative Research Guidance (CRG) and Double Degree Program (DDP)

What is a Joint Degree Program?
The Joint Degree Program (JDP) is a collaborative academic single program established by Hokkaido University and overseas partner universities

Joint degree program HU’s policy (summary)

List of all universities offering Double Degree Programs and Cotutelle Programs with Hokkaido University

Double Degree Programs

	HU’s Graduate School of;	Partner university	Program for:
1	Engineering	AGH University of Science and Technology (Poland)	Ph.D.
2	Engineering	AGH University of Science and Technology (Poland)	Master
3	Science	Northeast Normal University (China)	Ph.D.
4	Science	Southeast University (China)	Ph.D.
5	Engineering	Asian Institute of Technology (Thailand)	Master
6	Engineering ・Information Science and Technology	Seoul National University (South Korea)	Ph.D.
7	Engineering ・Information Science and Technology	Seoul National University (South Korea)	Master
8	Chemical Sciences and Engineering	AGH University of Science and Technology (Poland)	Ph.D.
9	Science	Al-Farabi Kazakh National University (Kazakhstan)	Ph.D.
10	Dental Medicine	Aarhus University (Denmark)	Ph.D.
11	Economics and Business	University of Gothenburg (Sweden)	Ph.D.
12	Economics and Business	University of Gothenburg (Sweden)	Master
13	Chemical Sciences and Engineering	University of Montreal (Canada)	Ph.D.
14	Science	Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology (Vietnam)	Ph.D.
15	Chemical Sciences and Engineering	National Taiwan University (Taiwan)	Ph.D.
16	Information Science and Technology	University of Tasmania (The agreement is expired)	Ph.D.
17	Chemical Sciences and Engineering	Nanjing University (China)	Ph.D.
18	Science	National Cheng Kung University (Taiwan)	Ph.D.
19	Engineering	Xi’an Jiaotong University (China)	Ph.D.
20	Agriculture	Bogor Agricultural University (Indonesia)	Ph.D.
21	Agriculture	Bogor Agricultural University (Indonesia)	Master
22	Science	Zhejiang University (China)	Ph.D.
23	Science	The Polish Academy of Sciences (Poland)	Ph.D.
24	Economics and Business	National Taiwan University (Taiwan)	Master
25	Engineering	Chulalongkorn University (Thailand)	Master
26	Science	University of Rome Tor Vergata (Italy)	Ph.D.
27	Science	University of Indonesia (Indonesia)	Ph.D.
28	Science	The University of Pisa (Italy)	Master
29	Economics and Business	Yonsei University (South Korea)	Master
30	Engineering	Thammasat University (Thailand)	Master
31	Engineering	Thammasat University (Thailand)	Ph.D.
32	Engineering・Chemical Sciences and Engineering	National Tsing Hua (Taiwan)	Ph.D.
33	Science	Padjajaran University（Indonesia）	Ph.D.
34	Engineering	Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (Australia)	Ph.D.
35	Science	University of Turin	Ph.D.
36	HU all	The University of Melbourne	Ph.D.
37	Agriculture	National Taiwan University	Ph.D.
38	Chemical Sciences and Engineering	National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (Taiwan)	Ph.D.
39	Chemical Sciences and Engineering	National Taiwan University	Master

Cooperative Research Guidance

	HU’s Graduate School of;	Partner university	Program for:
1	Environmental Science	University of Turin	Ph.D.
2	Agriculture	The University of Sydney (The agreement is expired)	Ph.D.
3	Chemical Sciences and Engineering	National Taiwan University (Taiwan)	Ph.D.
4	Agriculture	University of the Philippines	Ph.D.
5	Engineering	Pacific National University (Russia)	Ph.D.
6	Agriculture	Kasetsart University (Thailand)	Ph.D.
7	Veterinary Medicine	The University of Edinburgh (U.K.)	Ph.D.
8	Life Science	Ecole supérieure de physique et de chimie Industrielles de la ville de Paris (ESPCI PARIS)	Ph.D.
9	Education	Beijing Normal University (China)	Ph.D.
10	Environmental Science	The University of Sydney (The agreement is expired)	Ph.D.
11	Infectious Diseases	Thammasat University (Thailand) (The agreement is expired)	Ph.D.
12	Biomedical Science and Engineering	Al-Farabi Kazakh National University (Kazakhstan)	Ph.D.
13	Biomedical Science and Engineering	National University of Mongolia (Mongolia)	Ph.D.
14	Science	University of Bremen (Germany)	Ph.D.
15	Environmental Science	Gadjah Mada University (Indonesia)	Ph.D.
16	Fisheries Sciences	Huazhong Agricultural University (China)	Ph.D.
17	Education	Renmin University of China (China)	Ph.D.
18	Fisheries Sciences	Shanghai Ocean University (China)	Ph.D.
19	Fisheries Sciences	Ocean University of China (China)	Ph.D.
20	Infectious Diseases ・Veterinary Medicine	Thammasat University (Thailand)	Ph.D.
21	Fisheries Sciences	Chonnam National University (China)	Ph.D.

Manual and Guidebook

Guidelines for Building International Joint Diploma Programs by the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (PDF)
Manual for starting the Double Degree Program (PDF) (Internal only)
Ex-Manual for starting the Cotutelle Program (PDF) (Internal only)
(Internal only; Manual for Cooperative Research Guidance is in preparation.)