Careers After Graduation

This page presents students’ post-graduate careers. This page includes students ranging from those who entered in 1992, when NAOJ started to accept SOKENDAI Department of Astronomical Science students as an Inter-University Research Institute Corporation, to students who graduated in March 2020

Employment after graduating from SOKENDAI

The number of students who entered, graduated, and were hired by year

The total numbers of students who entered, graduated, and were hired by year are shown below.
The following graph shows the numbers of students ultimately graduating and finding employment among those who entered in that year.
* All the data are as of March 2021.

Year Entered	# Entered	# Graduated	# Hired
1992	9	7	6
1993	5	2	1
1994	14	9	6
1995	9	7	7
1996	6	6	6
1997	9	8	6
1998	6	6	5
1999	6	5	5
2000	4	4	4
2001	4	4	4
2002	5	2	2
2003	5	2	0
2004	9	6	3
2005	8	7	5
2006	8	1	1
2007	8	7	7
2008	7	5	6
2009	5	2	3
2010	3	3	2
2011	10	7	6
2012	9	7	7
2013	6	4	5
2014	6	4	4
2015	6	5	6
2016	7	5	6
Total	174	125	113

Break down by place of employment

The following pie charts show the employment status of students who entered and/or graduated from SOKENDAI. The detailed numbers of people and major hiring institutes are shown in the tables below.

Year Entered	# Hired	Japanese					Overseas
		NAOJ	University	Research Institute	Public Observatory	Company	University	Research Institute
1992	6		1	1	3	1
1993	1		1
1994	6	1	2	2		1
1995	7	3	1	2				1
1996	6	5						1
1997	6	1		2				3
1998	5	2	1					2
1999	5	2	1	1			1
2000	4		3				1
2001	4	2	1	1
2002	2	1		1
2003	0
2004	3	2						1
2005	5	2	3
2006	1		1
2007	7	3		2			1	1
2008	6	3	2			1
2009	3		1			2
2010	2	2
2011	6	1	1			3		1
2012	7	1	2	1		2	1
2013	5		1			3		1
2014	4	2				2
2015	6	2	1			2	1
2016	6	1	2	1		1		1
Total	113	36	25	14	3	18	5	12

Major Employers

University (Japanese)	Research Institute (Japanese)	University (Oversea)	Research Institute (Oversea)
The Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI)	National Astronomical Observatory of Japan	Montana State University	Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy
The University of Tokyo	Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency	The Catholic University of America	University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Tokyo Institute of Technology	Riken	Stanford University	NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Waseda University	National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo	University of Western Ontario	U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
Hosei University	National Institute for Environmental Studies	Nanjing University	Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Nagoya University	National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology	Beijing Normal University	Purple Mountain Observatory
Hokkaido University of Education	National Institute of Information and Communications Technology	The University of Hong Kong	Shanghai Astronomical Observatory
Ibaraki University	National Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences	Graduate Institute of Astronomy, National Central University	National Research Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics
Yamaguchi University	Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology	Princeton University	Istituto di Radioastronomia, INAF
Kyoto Sangyo University	National Institute of Polar Research	Heidelberg University	National Meteorological Satellite Center
Kyoto University	The Institute of Statistical Mathematics	University of California Santa Cruz	Max Planck Institute for Astronomy
Kobe University	Gunma Astronomical Observatory
Tsukuba University of Technology	Japan Spaceguard Association
University of Hyogo
Japan Women's University
National Institute of Technology, Kisarazu College
Hokkaido University
Ehime University