Keio by the Numbers: Keio University

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* As of June, 2025

Basic Information

→Japan’s first modern institution of
higher learning

→University students
→Full-time university faculty

*Including non-tenured faculty

Student-to-faculty ratio

→Keio Medical Science Prize winners who became Nobel laureatesLinks to external sites
→One of the Core Clinical Research Hospitals in JapanLinks to external sites

→One of the centers under the World Premier International Research Center Initiative (WPI)

*Selected for WPI in 2022
→Faculty members recognized among the world’s most influential researchers

*From Highly Cited Researchers 2024 (Clarivate)

→Affiliated schools

→Countries & regions represented
in our student body
→Courses taught in a foreign language

*Includes courses taught in English, Spanish, German, French, and Portuguese in AY 2024

→International partner institutionsLinks to external sites

→154 Olympians and Paralympians

(Total)
→Olympic and Paralympic medals

6 gold, 13 silver, 12 bronze

→Officially authorized student clubs
→Around 200,000 visitors to the Mita Festival

*One of the biggest university festivals in Japan

→Over 5.33 million volumes in the Keio librariesLinks to external sites

Rankings
(National)

→For Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (among private universities)Links to external sites

*From the 2026 University Ranking (Asahi Shimbun Publications Inc.)
→For the number of female faculty members (among private universities)

*From the 2026 University Ranking (Asahi Shimbun Publications Inc.)

→In the number of successful examinees for the Japanese National CPA Examinations for 50 consecutive years

*171 successful examinees in 2024
→In the number of successful examinees for the Japanese National BAR Examination

*146 successful examinees in 2024

→Highest number of university-based venture businesses

*From the Report on the Results of the FY 2024 Survey on University-Developed Venture Businesses (Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry)
→In the funding amount of university-based startups

*From the 2024 Japan Startup Funding Report (Speeda)

Rankings
(International)

→In the QS World University RankingsLinks to external sites

*From the 2026 QS World University Rankings

→92nd in the QS World University Rankings by Subject: Modern Languages

*From the 2025 QS World University Rankings by Subject
→Among Japanese universities in the Nature Index ranking in 2025Links to external sites

*From the 2025 Nature Index Annual Tables (among academic institutions in Japan)

Alumni

→Keio alumni

→Prime ministers

(Tsuyoshi Inukai*, Ryutaro Hashimoto, Junichiro Koizumi, Shigeru Ishiba)
*Enrolled for four years at Keio University before it became a comprehensive educational institution in 1898
Astronauts

(Chiaki Mukai, Akihiko Hoshide)

For CEOs of companies
listed on the Prime Market Section of
the Tokyo Stock Exchange

*From the 2026 University Ranking (Asahi Shimbun Publications Inc.)
For the number of female CEO alumnae

*From the 2026 University Ranking (Asahi Shimbun Publications Inc.)

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