According to the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, there were 2018 applications from 38 national, public and private universities nationwide for the 54 Excellent Graduate Program, and 15 were adopted as a result of examination by the Excellent Graduate Program Committee.The breakdown by national, public and private universities was all national universities, except for Waseda University, which was not adopted by public universities.

　Waseda University's Power Energy Professional Development Program aims to develop human resources who will create new industries that form the core of Society 5.0 (* 1).The coordinator is Yasuhiro Hayashi, a professor at the Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering. At domestic schools, Tohoku University, Yokohama National University, Osaka University, Tokushima University, etc. Work together.

　In addition, Hokkaido University's "One Health Frontier Outstanding Graduate School", Tohoku University's "Future Medical Creation Outstanding Graduate School Program", Tsukuba University's "Humanics Degree Program", and the University of Tokyo's "Life Science and Technology International" were adopted. "Outstanding Graduate Program", "Advanced Optical and Electronic Device Creation" at Kyoto University, "Development of Outstanding Human Resources to Promote Social Implementation of Biomedical Science" at Osaka University, etc.

* 1 Society5.0 A new social image set by the Government of Japan, aiming to achieve both economic development and solution of social issues with a system that highly integrates virtual space and real space.

reference:[Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology] Selection results of the 30 "Outstanding Graduate Program"
[Waseda University] The only private university to be selected as an outstanding graduate school program.