International Student Growth – Hokkaido University

The international student population at Hokkaido University is constantly growing.

The graph below illustrates this growth (blue) as well as how many come over self-supported (orange), with a Japanese Government scholarship (grey), or a Foreign Government scholarship (yellow).

Year*	TOTAL	Self-supported	Japanese government	Foreign government
2003	773	443	322	8
2004	764	441	314	9
2005	769	462	298	9
2006	801	501	290	10
2007	813	518	282	13
2008	864	566	271	27
2009	990	650	300	40
2010	1,162	752	313	97
2011	1,340	871	308	161
2012	1,347	885	275	187
2013	1,384	923	283	178
2014	1,456	995	309	152
2015	1,570	1,112	366	92
2016	1,735	1,279	385	71
2017	1,851	1,400	384	67
2018	2,101	1,630	408	63
2019	2,223	1,787	374	62
2020	2,093	1,710	329	54
2021	2,057	1,734	296	27
2022	2,024	1,670	331	23
2023	2,129	1,773	338	18
2024	2,042	1,667	354	21
*As of May 1^st per academic year