In the examination of the 2017 priority support system that makes a difference in the amount of operating expenses subsidy according to the progress of education and research reforms promoted by national universities, 86 of the 41 universities nationwide, including Kyoto University and Kyushu University, were evaluated as increasing. Forty-five schools, including Hitotsubashi University and Toyama University, were evaluated as reduced.

 Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
■ Mainly responding to local needs (55 schools)
■ Do excellent education and research in each specialized field (15 schools)
■ Conduct world-class education and research (16 schools)
-Introduced a system to redistribute about 1 billion yen, which each university contributed about 1,000% of the operating cost grant of about 1 trillion yen, according to the progress of reforms from FY100. doing.
The reform goals and implementation status submitted by each university to the Ministry of Education, the number of citations of papers, the employment rate of graduates in prefectures, the number of students who gave high scores in TOEIC, etc. were examined by the expert review committee.

 According to the report, Fukushima University and Hamamatsu University School of Medicine were the most highly rated among the 55 schools that mainly meet the needs of the region, with a reallocation rate of 113%.Of these, Fukushima University is highly evaluated for joint research on environmental radioactivity.On the contrary, the lowest reallocation rate was only 80.5% at Toyama University.
Of the 15 schools that carry out excellent education and research in each specialized field, Tokyo Medical and Dental University was judged to have the highest reallocation rate of 110%, while Kanoya Physical Education University was judged to be the lowest at 78%.
Of the 16 schools that conduct education and research at the world's top level, Kyoto University has the highest reallocation rate of 108.5%.Hitotsubashi University had the lowest rate at 87.6%.
The largest increase on a monetary basis was Kyoto University's increase of about 5,000 million yen.On the contrary, Hiroshima University had the largest decrease of about 3,000 million yen.

 Operating expenses subsidies account for 3-4% of the income of national universities.Due to the deterioration of the national financial situation, it has been decreasing since 2004 when the national university was incorporated, but in the 2017 budget plan, basic expenses such as operating expenses grants will be the first year after the incorporation. It is more than 1 billion yen.

reference:[Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology] Evaluation results of priority support for national university corporation operating expenses grants in 29

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