Hokkaido

Sources

• Undergraduate Admissions Overview https://www.global.hokudai.ac.jp/admissions/undergraduate-admissions-overview/

  The official undergraduate admissions page says Hokkaido University offers two undergraduate degree programmes taught in English, Modern Japanese Studies Program and Integrated Science Program, while the other undergraduate programmes are primarily conducted in Japanese.

  The page links twelve undergraduate schools: Agriculture, Dental Medicine, Economics and Business, Education, Engineering, Fisheries Sciences, Humanities and Human Sciences, Law, Medicine, Pharmaceutical Sciences and Pharmacy, Science, and Veterinary Medicine.

  The same page gives the central university address as Kita 8, Nishi 5, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido, 060-0808 Japan.

  Model elements: this source establishes the undergraduate catalogue scope, the named school structure and location.

• Admission Policy 2025 https://www.hokudai.ac.jp/admission/admission-policy2025.pdf

  The official admission-policy PDF describes the humanities general admission route for students who have decided on humanities but have not yet decided which faculty fits them. It says students study a wide range of fields, including humanities and sciences, during the first year and can choose their own path when advancing to the second year.

  The same PDF describes the science general admission route for students who like mathematics and science but have not yet decided which faculty contains the field they want to study. It says students study a wide range of fields, including science and humanities, during the first year and can choose their own path when advancing to the second year.

  Model elements: this is the decisive evidence for programChoice 2. Students can defer the faculty or field decision until after a common first year, but the source does not show a double major, a formal combined honours structure or open degree assembly.

• Diploma Policy and Curriculum Policy https://www.hokudai.ac.jp/introduction/plan/policy/threehoushin/

  The official curriculum-policy page says Hokkaido University runs a general admission system in addition to faculty-specific admission, so students do not choose their faculty or department at the entrance examination stage.

  It says first-year students study varied general education courses across faculty boundaries, and that university-wide general education courses consist of liberal arts core curriculum and foundational courses needed for specialized study.

  It also says specialized education from the second year onward is organized by each faculty to meet its diploma policy, and describes quality mechanisms including GPA, credit registration caps and grading guidelines.

  Model elements: this supports programChoice 2 and courseChoice 2. The evidence shows common and distribution-style university-wide education, not unrestricted internal free electives across the whole university.

• Modern Japanese Studies Program https://www.global.hokudai.ac.jp/admissions/modern-japanese-studies/

  The official MJSP page describes a four-year bachelor's degree programme, preceded by a six-month intensive Japanese course for students who need it.

  It says the programme covers Japanese language, history, culture, society and political economy, studies Japan in four academic disciplines and has a flexible curriculum.

  Model elements: this is a flexible interdisciplinary undergraduate pocket in humanities and social sciences, but it is a named programme, not an institution-wide open curriculum.

• Integrated Science Program https://www.global.hokudai.ac.jp/admissions/integrated-science/

  The official ISP page describes a cross-disciplinary science programme for international students, with a four-year bachelor's degree and a two-year master's degree.

  It says the programme gives broad scientific education across physics, chemistry and biology in the School of Science while allowing students to specialize in their chosen fields in later years.

  The course structure says students take fundamental natural science, liberal arts and Japanese courses in the first six months and then start more specialized study in physics, chemistry or biology.

  Model elements: this supports delayed specialization and structured breadth inside a named science programme, which is consistent with programChoice 2 and courseChoice 2 rather than higher levels.

• School of Medicine https://www.med.hokudai.ac.jp/en/

  The official School of Medicine page describes six years of study under the course system, with liberal education for medical students in year one, basic medicine in years two and three, clinical medicine in years three and four, and clinical clerkship in years four to six.

  Model elements: this source is used for the six-year upper bound of undergraduate professional study.

• Nitobe College https://www.global.hokudai.ac.jp/research-education/nitobe-college/

  The official Nitobe College page describes an honors programme that complements specialized education and research in each department and graduate school.

  For undergraduates it says the programme is administered in parallel to the existing twelve undergraduate schools and provides interdisciplinary, practical all-round education, including independent and overseas study, leadership curriculum and global career development.

  Model elements: this confirms an interdisciplinary parallel programme, but I do not use it to raise programChoice above 2 because it complements the existing school structure rather than replacing it with a second full major or open degree.

• Inter-University Exchange Agreements https://www.global.hokudai.ac.jp/global/inter-university-exchange-agreements/

  The official exchange-agreements page lists 203 agreements with 207 universities in 53 countries and regions, and marks which agreements include memoranda on student exchange.

  Strict cross-registration review: this is not counted as courseChoice 4. A list of exchange agreements does not prove that a Hokkaido undergraduate can routinely take one or two courses at another university and have them included in the degree record without special mobility procedures.

• Outbound Programs https://www.global.hokudai.ac.jp/research-education/outbound-programs/

  The official outbound-programmes page describes short-term language programmes, a two-week Global Career Design programme, international internships and Learning Satellite activities with overseas partner universities.

  Strict cross-registration review: these are mobility, internship, short programme and co-learning formats. They are useful evidence of international exposure, but not enough for courseChoice 4 under the current strict standard.

• Double Degree Program and Cooperative Research Guidance https://www.global.hokudai.ac.jp/research-education/double-degree-and-cooperative-research-guidance/

  The official page describes international double degree and cooperative research guidance programmes, but the listed double degree programmes are at master's or doctoral level.

  Model elements: this is not used for undergraduate programChoice 4 because it does not provide evidence of undergraduate double-major or double-degree choice.

• Hokkaido University In Numbers https://www.global.hokudai.ac.jp/about/in-numbers/

  The official Hokkaido University In Numbers page states that the data are as of July 2024. In the Number of Students table, Undergraduate Courses total is 11,535.

  For the Japanese model, this undergraduate figure is stored as bachelor enrollment. No separate specialist degree level is used, so specialist enrollment is stored as 0.