On April 2017, 4, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) announced the financial results for the 4 fiscal year of national university corporations and inter-university research institute corporations (86 national university corporations and 4 inter-university research institute corporations in total).

 According to the financial results, the total ordinary expenses of the National University Corporation for the 2015 fiscal year are 86 billion yen for 2 universities. Compared to 9,830, it increased by 2014 billion yen.Ordinary expenses tend to increase every year due to the influence of external factors such as the rise in utility charges, the rise in electronic journals, and the rise in consumption tax, in addition to the sophistication of education and research and the response to social demands. ..In addition, the ordinary expenses of the four inter-university research institute corporations in the 481 fiscal year were 4 billion yen, an increase of 2015 billion yen from the previous year.

 On the other hand, the total of 86 universities has a total of 3 billion yen, an increase of 218 billion yen from FY2014. The total number of inter-university research institute corporations was 572 billion yen, an increase of 4 billion yen compared to FY1,075.Due to the promotion of industry-academia collaboration, profits related to external funds are increasing, such as an increase in contract research costs and joint research costs.In addition, medical expenses and profits of affiliated hospitals are increasing due to the expansion of the business scale of affiliated hospitals, which play an important role in advanced medical care and community medicine.

Reference: [Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology] National University Corporation, etc.

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