Veterinary Medicine

Key Facts

The programme prepares specialists with an international perspective who can design and implement solutions within the One Health framework. Admission includes evaluation through an essay, research plan, and interview, and the programme is jointly supported by graduate schools in veterinary medicine and infectious diseases, enabling integrated expertise across multiple health-related fields.

Programme Structure

Curriculum:

• One Health and Global Disease Control
• Infectious Diseases and Prevention
• Environmental Health and Ecosystems
• Veterinary Medicine and Public Health
• Toxicology and Chemical Hazards
• Research Methods and Scientific Communication

Admission requirements

Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

English requirements

• TOEFL iBT: 75
• IELTS: 4

General requirements

• The WISE Program for One Health Frontier Graduate School of Excellence is a doctoral program (four years), and the admission limit is 20 people.
• Of successful applicants of the Graduate School of Veterinary Medicine (up to 16 people) and the Graduate School of Infectious Diseases (up to 12 people), applicants for this program will be screened through an essay, a research plan, and an interview just after admission to either graduate school. For more information, see the website.
• Veterinary School has abolished its own English test as a method of evaluating the foreign language (English) ability required for study from the 2020 entrance examination, and has shifted to using external test (TOEFL, TOEIC, IELTS, etc.) scores.

Tuition Fees

Tuition fees are shown in AUD and the most likely applicable fee is shown based on your nationality.

• International: 4,813 AUD / year (≈ 535,800 JPY / year)
• Domestic: 4,813 AUD / year (≈ 535,800 JPY / year)

Living costs

Sapporo-shi, Japan: 999-1,485 AUD / month